On May 10, 2022, the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) and the European Chemicals Agency (ECHA) announced their updated timelines for assessments of glyphosate. Accordingly, due to the unprecedented amount [...]
The network of American activists Environmental Working Group has recently released the annual ranking of fruit and vegetables most contaminated by pesticides in the US. Strawberries and spinach are – aga [...]
On March 30, 2022, the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) has published its latest annual report on pesticide residues in food with samples being collected in 2020. A total of 88 141 samples and 659 pesticid [...]
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 [...]
The use of bactericides, fungicides, and other pesticides in plant agriculture is potentially associated with the emerging issue of antimicrobial resistance (AMR), according to a recently published paper review [...]
According to a leaked draft of the new regulation on the sustainable use of pesticides, the final version of which is expected in March, the objective of 50% reduction of pesticides in the European Union set fo [...]
Legambiente, an Italian environmentalist association, has recently published its annual report on the use of pesticides in agriculture in Italy. The results are - partly - encouraging, as, according to the anal [...]
The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) has recently published the 2020 Pesticide Data Program (PDP) Annual Summary, which shows that more than 99% of the samples tested had pesticide residues below benchmark [...]
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 [...]
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