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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 ...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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 ...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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 ...
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