Consumer Reports (CR), an American nonprofit consumer organization, has measured the amount of mercury present in canned tuna from five popular brands available in the US market. Canned tuna is a [...]
Since 2020, the food safety inspectorates of the Faroe Islands, Iceland, Denmark, Norway, and Sweden have worked together to develop a common Nordic approach to risk management of food safety in seaweed and kel [...]
The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has recently published a draft guidance to provide information to the industries on the “action levels” (levels at which FDA may regard a food as adulterate [...]
The European Food Safety Authority (EFSA)’s scientific experts have declared that the combined exposure to copper from all sources does not pose health concerns for the EU population. Copper [...]
Consumer Reports (CR), an American nonprofit consumer organization, found dangerous heavy metals in chocolate from different popular brands. It has been demonstrated that dark chocolate has some p [...]
According to an evaluation conducted by the Food Standards Agency (FSA), edible insects sold in the United Kingdom pose low risk to the public. FSA experts looked at allergens, microbial, and heavy metal contam [...]
The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and the World Health Organization (WHO) have recently published a document identifying food safety hazards linked to the consumption of seaweed and aquatic plants, wh [...]
A new report published recently by the US National Confectioners Association in cooperation with the non-profit organization As You Sow provides recommendations on how to mitigate the level of cadmium and lead [...]
The FDA’s report “Total Diet Study”, which analyzes the most recent data on nutrients and contaminants in the U.S. food supply, shows high levels of arsenic, cadmium, and lead in many baby foo [...]
The Ho Chi Minh City Food Safety Management Board has recently announced that nearly 50 percent of vegetables and fruits collected from wholesale markets had a lot of residues of pesticides, including banned ch [...]
