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27 Feb 2024
Glyphosate found in ready-made soups in Italy
The consumer rights magazine Il Salvagente (a member of SAFE) conducted an investigation on ready-made soups, discovering that these products often contain glyphosate. Upon examini...
Tags: Consumers, Food Safety, Glyphosate, Pesticides
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News - Uncategorized
05 Feb 2024
Labelling challenges for plant-based food
As reported by Chartered Trading Standards Institute (CTSI), vegan and plant-based foods lack of a legal definition. Nevertheless, about a 76,4% of consumers believe food labeled a...
Tags: Food Safety, Labeling, plant-based food, Vegan
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24 Nov 2023
EFSA created TKPlate, a platform for predicting the toxicity of chemicals without animal testing
The European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) annouced the launch of TKPlate, a groundbreaking initiative in the realm of food safety that seeks to revolutionise traditional practices ...
Tags: chemicals, EFSA, Risk Assessment
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09 May 2023
Hazardous chemicals banned in the EU should also be banned for export
The European Commission has just launched a public consultation on the legislative initiative that aims to prohibit the production and/or export of certain hazardous chemicals that...
Tags: chemicals, European Commission, Have your say, Human Health, Public Consultation
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10 Mar 2023
EU acts to cut arsenic levels in baby food
Just Food...
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News - Uncategorized
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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03 Mar 2021
Conference: “Tackling Adolescent Obesity: How to make a shift towards healthier behaviors“
On February 26, 2021, SAFE has successfully organised a virtual conference, “Tackling Adolescent Obesity : How to make a shift towards healthier behaviors“, to disseminate the ...
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08 Apr 2019
Food Safety in the EU: Maintaining High Standards and Ensuring Transparency of Information
On 11th April 2019, SAFE’s Policy Officer and Project coordinator Bruno Menne will attend Public Policy Exchange’s conference ‘Food Safety in the EU: Maintaining ...
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16 Dec 2017
Is Glyphosate safe? We have the right to know
By Emilia Korkea-aho and Päivi Leino In November 2017, after a great deal of political maneuvering, the EU Member States decided to extend authorization for glyphosate, the world...
Tags: Consumers, EFSA, European Parliament, Glyphosate, MEP, Pesticides, Roundup
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09 Oct 2017
MEPs reject Commission’s endocrine disruptor definition
The European Commission will have to rewrite its definition of endocrine disruptors, after MEPs shot down the executive’s proposal in a vote in Strasbourg on Wednesday (4 October...
Tags: Agriculture, Endocrine disruptors, Environment, European Commission, European Parliament, Food Safety, Glyphosate, Pesticides
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04 Oct 2017
Endocrine disruptors: A guilty definition
French socialist MEPs are defiant against the Commission’s “weak, superficial and incomplete” definition of endocrine disruptors, blaming it on French Ecology Minister Nicol...
Tags: Agriculture, Consumers, Endocrine disruptors, Environment, European Parliament, Glyphosate, Pesticides, Roundup
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04 Oct 2017
Endocrine disruptors: Report exposes scale of contamination as Parliament vote looms
More than one-third of all fruit consumed in the EU is contaminated with residues of endocrine disrupting pesticides, according to a study published on Tuesday (3 October), a day b...
Tags: Agriculture, Consumers, Endocrine disruptors, Environment, European Parliament, Hormone, Monsanto, Pesticides
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