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12 Jul 2022

New Anses opinion confirms link between nitrite consumption and cancer

In a highly anticipated opinion published on July 12, 2022, the French national agency for food safety (Agence nationale de sécurité alimentaire – Anses) confirms for the f...

Tags: ANSES, Cancer, Food Additives, nitrates, nitrites

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08 Jun 2022

MEP calls for health education in schools to tackle obesity

As obesity continues to rise alarmingly in Europe, MEP Tudor Ciuhodaru (Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats – Romania) calls on the European Commission to reinforce ...

Tags: Children, European Parliament, Food Literacy, Nutrition, Obesity

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03 Jun 2022

New RAC assessment on the risks of glyphosate

On May 30th, The Risk Evaluation Committee (RAC) from ECHA published the conclusions of its assessment on the various risks of glyphosate. Based on hundreds of feedbacks from vario...

Tags: ECHA, EFSA, Glyphosate, Pesticides

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30 May 2022

“WeValueTrueNatural” campaign and green claims: how to ensure consumers are not misled by unsubstantiated claims

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Tags: food labelling, Natural, Position Paper, Unfair commercial practices

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24 May 2022

New report reveals EU’s failure to reduce use of most dangerous pesticides

Pesticide Action Network Europe (PAN Europe) just released a new report highlighting that the European Union (EU) is alarmingly going in the wrong direction regarding pesticides us...

Tags: Agriculture, European Commission, Farm to Fork, Pesticides

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15 Apr 2022

Study shows the lack of understanding of consumers on food contact materials

German consumer organisation Verbraucherzentrale Bundesverband (VZBV) conducted a study on German consumers’ perception and knowledge of food packaging and food contact mater...

Tags: FCM, food contact materials, Food Packaging

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05 Apr 2022

New WHO study on sugar-sweetened beverage taxes

A recent WHO European Region study published in March 2022 evaluates the state of play associated with national sugar-sweetened beverage (SSB) taxes across Europe. The ultimate goa...

Tags: Obesity, Sugar, Sugar tax, WHO

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29 Mar 2022

Acrylamide: A new study reveals the probability of carcinogenic exposure in baby foods

Acrylamide is a heated-induced toxicant generated by a chemical reaction that reduces sugar and amino acids present in foods. Most industrial and cooking methods induce the formati...

Tags: Acrylamide, Cancer, Children, Consumers, European Commission

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25 Mar 2022

Microplastic pollution: recent study shows the presence of microplastics in human blood

A pioneering study trying to detect the presence of microplastic pollution in human blood was published this week, showing alarming results. Microplastics were found in t...

Tags: FCM, food contact materials, microplastics

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17 Mar 2022

Recent call to reform the pesticides evaluation system.

In a recent video, MEP Eric Andrieu, points out the shortcomings in the current pesticide evaluation system. Highlighting that the current situation induces a great health risk, wh...

Tags: EFSA, European Parliament, Pesticides

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10 Mar 2022

Acrylamide in food: the urgent need to reform the current legislation

Acrylamide is a chemical compound generated during high-temperature cooking processes that transform sugar and amino acids present in food products. For many years the scientific c...

Tags: Acrylamide, EFSA, European Commission, Food Safety

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01 Mar 2022

Climate Change threatens food security

The latest IPCC report portrays an alarming scenario for the future of our food systems. Global warming threatens food production and access to food. According to researchers, the ...

Tags: Agriculture, Environment, Food Systems, Global warming, Soil