Researchers from Saudi Arabia, Egypt and China have found that fishes caught on the Jeddah Coast, East side of the Red Sea, have high levels of heavy metals.The research, published in Saudi Journal of Biologica [...]
SwissDeCode, a Swiss biotech company foundend in 2016 and specialized in a variety of rapid on-site testing solutions for food contamination and adulteration, has closed its first venture round, raising CHF 3.7 [...]
After Wuhan outbreak of COVID-19 pandemic, China has been one of the most careful country in the world to control the virus, also using hard lockdown in large areas. Today China is concerned about the risk of [...]
The last act of Sonny Perdue as US Secretary of Agricolture was the signature of a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) between USDA and FDA.This MOU allows the transition of some regulatory oversight from FDA to [...]
Ice cream samples submitted 12 and 13 January 2021 by the Tianjin Daqiaodao Food Co., Ltd., in the northeastern Chinese city of Tianjin were found to be contaminated with SARS-CoV-2. All production at the facil [...]
In August 2020, the State of New York took a first significant step to pass a law restricting the use of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) in food packaging. On December 3, 2020 Governor Andrew Cuomo t [...]
According to a recent EFSA assessment, modification of plant DNA through genome editing techniques pose no more hazards than conventional breeding or other techniques that introduce new DNA into a plant. The sc [...]
Health Canada’s Pest Management Regulatory Agency (PMRA) has recently introduced new Maximum Residue Limits (MRLs) for Pyroxsulam, Triflumezopyrim, Broflanilide and Flupyradifurone in food. Their a [...]
Yuka, Foodwatch and the League Against Cancer teamed up a year ago launching a petition to call for bans on nitrite and nitrate-based additives (E249, E 250, E251, E252), which are particularly used in processe [...]
Since June, Chinese authorities have tested chilled and frozen food imports for SARS-CoV-2 repeatedly reporting particles of the virus on products and packaging from dozens of countries.Packaging first became a [...]
