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 [...]
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 [...]
The Italian Ministry of Health has recently issued a circular, emphasizing the need to dispose of chicken and turkey meat in which traces of non-typhoid Salmonella have been found. Among various variants [...]
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 [...]
The European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) has recently published its final report on the results from the monitoring of veterinary medicinal product residues and other substances in live animals and animal prod [...]
The UK Food Standards Agency has recently published its final report of the national-wide survey of antimicrobial resistance in specific bacteria from lamb and turkey meat on retail sale between October 2020 an [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
The UK Government Chemist team, hosted at LGC, has recently published two scientific papers about the increasing complexity of honey authentication. A story that appeared in the UK media in Novemb [...]
