A group of researchers from the University of Liverpool, in collaboration with the United Kingdom Health Security Agency, has published a study which adds to evidence that dried meat dog treats can be contamina [...]
Residues of veterinary drugs and other substances (such as environmental contaminants) in animals and food of animal origin continue to decrease in the European Union and, in parallel, compliance levels are inc [...]
A group of researchers from Rothamsted Research (Hertfordshire, UK) have recently published the results of Europe’s first-ever field trial of a gene-edited (GE) variety of wheat showing a “significa [...]
French prosecutors brought criminal charges against dairy company Lactalis for serious fraud, involuntarily bodily harm and a failure to carry out product withdrawals and recalls related to a 2018 Salmonella-co [...]
The Senate Commission on Food Safety (SKLM) of the German Research Foundation (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, DFG) has recently published, on the peer-reviewed journal Food and Chemical Toxicology, an opinion [...]
Consumer Reports (CR), an American nonprofit consumer organization, has measured the amount of mercury present in canned tuna from five popular brands available in the US market. Canned tuna is a [...]
The Environmental Working Group (EVG), an American nonprofit organization that specializes in research and advocacy in the areas of agricultural subsidies, toxic chemicals, drinking water pollutants, and corpor [...]
The European Chemicals Agency (ECHA) has recently published a proposal for the restriction of around 10 000 per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS). The proposal aims to reduce PFAS emission into the environ [...]
The Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU), EU's highest court, has set off that in-vitro plant random mutagenesis are excluded from EU laws governing the use of genetically modified organisms (GMOs). &n [...]
According to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) there are enough risks associated with the use of cannabidiol (CBD) products to call for a new regulatory pathway. The agency announced it is prepared to [...]
