Earlier this year, in February 2021, the Subcommittee on Economic and Consumer Policy released its first report “Baby Foods Are Tainted with Dangerous Levels of Arsenic, Lead, Cadmium, and Mercury.” [...]
In most nations, edible insects are a new cuisine. However, due to their high protein and low-fat content, simplicity of production, and minimal environmental effect, their popularity is increasing. For this re [...]
To protect public health, the European Commission has established new maximum levels for lead and cadmium in a variety of food items. Measures will go into effect on August 30 for lead limits and a day later fo [...]
The World Health Organization (WHO) has requested information on two heavy metals found in various foods, more precisely: methylmercury and total mercury in orange roughy, pink cusk-eel, and all toothfish, and [...]
Heavy metals are present throughout the French population. This is shown in the ESTEBAN report, released by the government agency Santé publique France, in charge of biosurveillance, which updated data o [...]
According to the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), the advantages of edible insects as an emerging food source must be balanced against possible food safety concerns. Although insec [...]
FDA announced its new plan against baby food heavy metals contamination. It is titled “Closer to Zero”, and it will represent a project aiming to lower levels of arsenic, lead, cadmium, and mercury in baby [...]
On the 1st of January 2021, the UK left the European Single Market. Since then, there have been several problems concerning the goods traded from and to the UK. While the EU maintains its border controls wit [...]
PreScouter published a new report that analyzes different strategies to detect toxic metals in food and beverages. This research follows the recent congressional US report that has brought the problem of signif [...]
Researchers from Saudi Arabia, Egypt and China have found that fishes caught on the Jeddah Coast, East side of the Red Sea, have high levels of heavy metals.The research, published in Saudi Journal of Biologica [...]
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