A recent investigation by Consumer Reports found alarming levels of PFAS in food packaging of well-known fast-food restaurants and grocery store chains. 118 food packaging products from 24 companies have been c [...]
The European Commission (EC) has initiated discussions with its Member States to set maximum limits in food for 4 PFAS (PFOA, PFNA, PFHxS, and PFOS), which were the subject of an EFSA’s scientific opinion [...]
One of the widely consumed spices in South India is chili (Capsicum annuum). Due to its inherent, eco-physiological factors with nutritional characteristics, it favors the growth of molds, during harvest and po [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
