A team of scientists from the Food Packaging Forum (FPF), together with colleagues from eight academic institutions, analyzed more than 1 200 scientific studies where chemicals had been measured in food contact [...]
Four out of 17 certified organic pasta sauce products tested positive for per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS). According to organic food expert, Max Goldberg from Organic Insider, the presence of P [...]
A recent investigation by Consumer Reports found alarming levels of PFAS in food packaging of well-known fast-food restaurants and grocery store chains. 118 food packaging products from 24 companies have been c [...]
The European Commission (EC) has initiated discussions with its Member States to set maximum limits in food for 4 PFAS (PFOA, PFNA, PFHxS, and PFOS), which were the subject of an EFSA’s scientific opinion [...]
Safe Food Advocacy Europe, an NGO working with health and food safety, has raised alarming concerns regarding the current benchmark levels of acrylamide in food. The NGO calls for the reduction of these levels [...]
Canned foods generally have internal coatings which are intended to protect the food. However, it also leads to the migration of undesirable known substances, which are studied extensively in regard to the adve [...]
A newly published study by the University of Copenhagen has investigated the migration of chemicals into drinking water stored for 24 hours in new and used plastic bottles. They detected that more than 400 plas [...]
A recently published study shows that exposure to a mixture of endocrine-disrupting chemicals (EDC) in early pregnancy might have adverse impacts on brain development and language acquisition in offspring, even [...]
Representatives from EU Member States (MSs), the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA), the European Commission (DG Health and Food Safety), and the EU Reference Laboratories (EURLs) recently met to get insight [...]
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has recently received a call to restrict the usage of bisphenol A (BPA) in plastics used to produce food contact materials. A coalition of scientists, physicians, a [...]
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