The state of California has recently amended the California Proposition 65, which requires businesses to provide warnings to Californians about significant exposures to toxic chemicals, by adding a new section [...]
The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has recently published a draft guidance to provide information to the industries on the “action levels” (levels at which FDA may regard a food as adulterate [...]
The European Food Safety Authority (EFSA)’s scientific experts have declared that the combined exposure to copper from all sources does not pose health concerns for the EU population. Copper [...]
On January 11, 2023, the consultation period regarding the revision of rules within the EU on food contact materials (FCMs) ended. A total of 610 valid feedback instances have been received. Contribution [...]
According to a survey conducted by the Food Safety Standard Authority of India (FSSAI) between 2021 and 2022, almost 15% of protein powders (dietary supplements used by athletes and bodybuilders) sold in India [...]
A group of US-based non-profit advocacy organizations (Plaintiffs Alianza Nacional de Campesinas, Pesticide Action Network North America, Rural Coalition, Center for Environmental Health, Organización en [...]
According to a new study, recently published on Food Control by researchers from Queen's University Belfast and Edge Hill University, food allergen-related (FAR) recalls accounted for more than half (57.6%) of [...]
The Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER) and the Center for Environmental Health (CEH) sued in federal court Inhance Technologies, a US-based company that produces plastic packaging used for [...]
A group of researchers from Queens University have recently published a paper demonstrating that nitrite-containing sausages can exacerbate the development of colorectal cancer (CRC) pathology in mice, and this [...]
Legambiente (an Italian non-profit association), in collaboration with Alce Nero (a cooperative that produces organic food), has recently published its annual report on the presence of pesticides in food, showi [...]
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