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20 Jul 2018

Building momentum: lessons on implementing a robust sugar sweetened beverage tax

This recent report from the World Cancer Research Fund International provides guidance about designing, defending and implementing a robust SSB tax, drawing lessons from countries ...

Tags: Nutrition, Sugar, Sugar tax

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17 Jul 2018

The pesticide-free town: Sowing the seeds of tomorrow

In 2014 Mals, a small town in the north of Italy, became the first community in the world to ban pesticide use through a referendum. How did these activists triumph over the pestic...

Tags: Agriculture, Environment, Italy, Organic, Pesticides

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13 Jul 2018

Europol: Massive seizure of fake pesticides which could spray the size of the UK

Europol’s annual Operation SILVER AXE III seized the largest-ever amount of illegal or counterfeit pesticides in Europe this week. But the fact that such massive amounts of illeg...

Tags: Consumers, Environment, EU, Food Safety, Pesticides

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11 Jul 2018

EU Parliament backs microplastic bans to tackle plastic pollution

On July 10, the European Parliament’s ENVI Committee voted to strengthen the Commission’s overall plans to cut plastic pollution, under the so-called Plastics Strategy. MEP...

Tags: Environment, European Parliament, Food Packaging, Plastics

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06 Jul 2018

Listeria monocytogenes: update on foodborne outbreak

Frozen corn and possibly other frozen vegetables are the likely source of an outbreak of Listeria monocytogenes that has been affecting Austria, Denmark, Finland, Sweden, and the...

Tags: Consumers, EFSA, Food Safety

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04 Jul 2018

New guidance on nanotechnologies in food and feed

EFSA has published its guidance on how to assess the safety of nanoscience and nanotechnology applications. The guidance focuses on the safety assessment for human and animal healt...

Tags: Additives, EFSA, Food Packaging, Food Safety, Pesticides

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02 Jul 2018

Le cannucce di plastica permangono nei secoli: 500 anni per distruggersi

Secondo gli studi del centro Enea, oltre l’80% dei rifiuti che invadono i litorali italiani è rappresentato da plastiche, che finiscono poi in mare dove nel corso degli anni div...

Tags: Environment, Food Packaging, Food Safety, Italy, Plastics

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29 Jun 2018

Tackling food waste: turning nemesis into a saviour

According to Dr Milka Sokolović from the European Food Information Council (EUFIC), function of food packaging has traditionally been limited to passive protection from external ...

Tags: Environment, Food Packaging, Food Waste

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28 Jun 2018

Pesticide residues: new advice on foods for infants and young children

Following a request from the European Commission, EFSA has made a number of recommendations to further protect young infants from potential risks posed by pesticide residues in foo...

Tags: Babies, Consumers, EFSA, Food Safety, Pesticides

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27 Jun 2018

A worldwide shift: profiling the alternative meat market

According to recent research from GlobalData, the majority of the world’s population has adopted a diet that features reduced or entirely absent meat consumption. Changing consum...

Tags: Animals, Consumers, Environment, Healthy diet, Meat, Vegan

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27 Jun 2018

‘Enormous potential for the nutrition of millions’: Savanna Ingredients develops natural sugar without calories

Germany’s Savanna Ingredients has developed a process to produce allulose – “real sugar without calories” – on a mass scale. The group expects to achieve European...

Tags: EU, Healthy diet, Nutrition, Sugar

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20 Jun 2018

Avoiding meat and dairy is ‘single biggest way’ to reduce your impact on Earth

Avoiding meat and dairy products is the single biggest way to reduce your environmental impact on the planet, according to the scientists behind the most comprehensive analysis to ...

Tags: Agriculture, Climate Change, Environment, Meat, Nutrition, Vegan