The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has recently published a draft guidance to provide information to the industries on the “action levels” (levels at which FDA may regard a food as adulterate [...]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 [...]
Earlier this week, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) released its draft guidance, which provides information to companies and manufacturers on the action levels for lead in ready-to-drink juices and jui [...]
A recent test conducted by the French consumer magazine "60 millions de consommateurs" on 48 tea products present in the supermarket identified that up to 16 different pesticides “pollute” tea [...]
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