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27 Jan 2016
EFSA: Pesticides – breakthrough on cumulative risk assessment
EFSA and its European partners have taken a major step forward in their work on assessing the cumulative risks from exposure to pesticides. A software tool has been developed for c...
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13 Jan 2016
EU food safety watchdog hits back at scientists in glyphosate spat
The head of Europe’s food safety watchdog has written to a group of nearly 100 senior scientists strongly rejecting their criticisms in an ongoing row about the safety of wee...
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13 Jan 2016
Glyphosate: EFSA responds to critics
EFSA has replied to criticism of the EU assessment of glyphosate that was overseen by the Authority last year. Read their reply here....
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11 Jan 2016
TTIP: The downfall of EU agriculture?
A new study has concluded that TTIP threatens to completely change the way small and medium sized farms operate, through the use of more genetic engineering and more hormone-treate...
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10 Dec 2015
EU aims to crack down on unsustainable palm oil and illegal logging
In the next five years, the major European players, including Germany, want palm oil production to become 100% sustainable and to see an end to illegal logging. EurActiv Germany re...
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09 Dec 2015
USA: Big Food aims to kill mandatory GMO labels before year’s end
Food makers want the US Senate to pass a bill that would make labeling voluntary and supersede state-level laws. There’s no doubt about it: The food industry is counting on you t...
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09 Dec 2015
Jeremy Rifkin: ‘Number two cause of global warming emissions? Animal husbandry’
An estimated 40% of all the agricultural land in the world today is used to grow feed grains for beef production, a trend that is set to worsen with the rise of the middle class in...
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02 Dec 2015
Agriculture Secretary: Geographic protection ‘not an easy issue’ in TTIP
Tom Vilsack, the United States Secretary of Agriculture, said that Washington “respects” Europe’s claim for geographic protection of food in the transatlantic trade talks. Bu...
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News - Press Releases
01 Dec 2015
SAFE Vegan and Vegetarian Working Group: new EU legislation for European consumers
SAFE – EUROPEAN VEGAN AND VEGETARIAN WORKING GROUP: While the number of people declaring themselves vegan or vegetarians continues to rise across the European Union, the rela...
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12 Nov 2015
EU scientists advise higher safety limits on glyphosate weedkiller
Glyphosate is unlikely to cause cancer in humans, according to the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA), which proposed higher limits on Thursday (12 November) on the amount of re...
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28 Oct 2015
Parliament rejects national GMO bans proposal
A draft EU law that would enable any EU member state to restrict or prohibit the sale and use of EU-approved GMO food or feed on its territory was rejected by the European Parliame...
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16 Oct 2015
EU agri-food industries draw ‘red lines’ in TTIP battle
European agri-food business organisations have drawn their “red lines” ahead of the eleventh round of EU-US trade talks taking place next week, expressing serious concerns over...
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