The European Parliament's Environment Commission has approved measures aimed at ensuring the sustainable use of pesticides and reducing their environmental impact. The Commission defined its posit [...]
Europol's OPSON Europe operation, spanning from December 2022 to April 2023, has achieved a significant breakthrough in combating food fraud across the European market. With a focus on customs areas, physical a [...]
The United States Department of Agriculture's Food Safety and Inspection Service (USDA's FSIS) is about to revolutionize beef safety testing with a new multi-residue quantitation method for detecting chemical r [...]
AOAC International (AOAC) has announced that the draft Food Allergen Immunoassay Validation Guidance document is now available for public review and comment. This document aims to provide guidelines for validat [...]
Celery remains one of the top regulated allergens globally, including within the EU & UK. For other top regulated food allergens, there are widely available quantitative immunoassays, including ELISAs, the [...]
The United Kingdom government has once again postponed the commencement of import inspections for EU goods, pushing the deadline to January 2024. This is the fifth time such measures have been delayed since Bre [...]
A worrying discovery has been made by laboratories appointed by KTipp, a Swiss consumer monthly magazine, revealing traces of car tire wear in 12 out of 15 salad samples analyzed. The most contaminated were sal [...]
Food Standards Australia New Zealand (FSANZ) has launched its annual call for public input on potential modifications to Maximum Residue Limits (MRLs) for agricultural and veterinary chemicals. This initiative [...]
The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has recently released the first dataset collected under the fifth Unregulated Contaminant Monitoring Rule (UCMR 5). This milestone initiative aims to enhance the EPA [...]
The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) has recently released a comprehensive report detailing widespread contamination of the nation's drinking water. The study reveals that nearly half of all tap water in the US is [...]
