The European Academy of Allergy & Clinical Immunology (EAACI) task force on food allergen thresholds has evaluated the allergen threshold of 5mg per 100g recently proposed by a group of researchers. The gro [...]
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has recently received a call to restrict the usage of bisphenol A (BPA) in plastics used to produce food contact materials. A coalition of scientists, physicians, a [...]
The European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC), together with the WHO Regional Office for Europe, has recently published a report to present antimicrobial resistance (AMR) data from invasive isol [...]
The Packaging Materials Task Force of ILSI Europe has recently published an article about non-intentionally added substances (NIAS). The study aimed to develop guidelines to support the safety assessment of the [...]
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 [...]
An international team of researchers conducted the largest and most comprehensive study to date on the global burden of antimicrobial resistance (AMR) and estimated that 1.27 million – and potentially mil [...]
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 Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and World Health Organization (WHO) experts recently gathered for the final session of a three-part consultation on risk assessment of food alle [...]
Phthalates and bisphenol A are ubiquitous plasticizing substances, used in the manufacture of a multitude of products (e.g. packaging), and whose adverse health effects are well-known. Rece [...]
In Italy, some supermarkets affix signs to warn customers about the risk of buying pasta, bread and baked goods prepared with flours contaminated with mustard seeds. The problem is serious, as mus [...]
