The Pesticide Residue Monitoring Program Fiscal Year 2019 Pesticide Report has been released by the US Food and Drug Administration. The report indicates that the amounts of pesticide chemical residues in the U [...]
The Rapid Alert System for Food and Feed (RASFF) had another year of development in 2020 given that The Information Management System for Official Control (IMSOC) was implemented by Regulation (EU) 2019/1715, w [...]
A recent research from the United Kingdom discovered 122 pesticide residues in 12 fruits and vegetables. Every fruit and vegetable on this list had at least two different kinds of pesticides, with some having a [...]
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 [...]
The EPA (United States Environmental Protection Agency) has revoked all “tolerances” for chlorpyrifos, which set the quantity of a pesticide that can be present on food, in a final regulation. Furth [...]
The bacteriological safety of sprouts is investigated in a review paper published in the International Journal of Food Microbiology. Since 1988, sprout eating has been linked to more than 60 outbreaks of foodbo [...]
The ethylene oxide alert started in autumn 2020 with contaminated sesame seeds, since then, many products -ginger and other spices, as well as some supplements- have been withdrawn from the market as potentiall [...]
A court in Antwerp condemned two men and one woman accused of being at the heart of Belgium's largest-ever food scam. The three were among seven people charged and four firms accused of using the pesticide Fipr [...]
More than 800 tons of tomato concentrate have been seized in South Italy by Carabinieri (national gendarmerie) of the Agri-Food Protection Command from a company leader in the canning sector. The investigations [...]
European citizens are calling to stop caged animals farming in the EU, and they managed to gather almost 1.4 million signatures in two and a half years across the EU. This initiative is called “End the Cage A [...]
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