Tetrodotoxins, a potent neurotoxic class of toxins with potentially fatal effects if ingested by humans, were found in significant amounts in some mussel samples taken in May 2017 and May 2018 from the Marano l [...]
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 [...]
Safe food is essential to everyone's health. Around the world, governments and businesses share the enormous responsibility for safeguarding food. This challenging job happens to benefit immensely from multilat [...]
On September 24, 2021, the European Commission released its Inception Impact Assessment on "Legislation for plants produced by certain new genomic techniques". It is based on a prior working paper on the legal [...]
The United Kingdom is becoming further committed to allow new GMOs to enter the market. The requirements for performing field testing using seeds generated by gene editing have been eased in London. &nbs [...]
The European Commission's proposal to ban the use of Titanium Dioxide (E171) as a food additive starting from 2022 was accepted by Member States last week. The Commission's recommendation is based [...]
The Italian National Committee for Food Safety (CNSA) has published an opinion based on a Technical Report produced in cooperation with the National Reference Laboratory for Mycotoxins on the current state of k [...]
Earlier this year, in February 2021, the Subcommittee on Economic and Consumer Policy released its first report “Baby Foods Are Tainted with Dangerous Levels of Arsenic, Lead, Cadmium, and Mercury.” [...]
The pilot project to develop food safety indicators in China was started in 2019, a decade after the national food safety legislation went into effect, to assess its efficacy. The project report "Food safety in [...]
A recent research from the United Kingdom discovered 122 pesticide residues in 12 fruits and vegetables. Every fruit and vegetable on this list had at least two different kinds of pesticides, with some having a [...]
