On September 14, 2021, U.S. FDA and CDC issued public warnings about the possible health hazards of consuming Delta-8 THC products. The FDA and CDC's objective was to warn the public about the fol [...]
The first report of ethylene oxide contamination in Indian sesame in Belgium was over a year ago. According to the European Commission, defining a safe concentration-threshold value, that is a number below whic [...]
With the EU regulation 1408/2021, the European Commission revised and modified the maximum levels of tropane alkaloids in some food products of plant origin previously regulated by the EC Reg. 1881/2006. [...]
On August 26, the FDA published the results of tests carried out on processed foods to measure the levels of per-and polyfluoroalkyl (PFAS). Perfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) are a family of chemical compounds u [...]
In Bangladesh, fish guts were found to be full of plastic. This represents a serious issue considering that fish is a basis of the Bengali diet. It was reported by the Department of Environmental Sciences at Ja [...]
In July, the president of the subcommittee on energy and trade of the Chamber for Consumer Protection introduced the Food Chemical Reassessment Act which aims to tighten controls on chemicals that are increasin [...]
The Ghana Food and Drugs Authority (FDA) has issued a stern warning to palm oil producers across the nation to stop mixing red oil with Sudan dye before selling it. According to the FDA, its organization has a [...]
More than 350 million tonnes of plastic are manufactured worldwide every year, and much of it is utilized in the food sector. According to experts at the ETH Zürich university in Switzerland, these plastic [...]
A new study published on Environmental Sciences and Technology found per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) in breast milk of all mothers tested. PFAS are substances widely used in food packaging and in [...]
China researchers searched for per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFASs) in various types of foods. PFAS are chemicals that are widely used in industrial products to protect surfaces from deterioration. These [...]
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