Tag: chemicals

’Forever chemicals’ found above threshold levels in many water bodies in Europe

13 Dec 2024

The European Environment Agency has released the data on PFAS, also known as “forever chemicals” and the amounts of them found in Europe, in rivers, lakes, transitional and coa...

Tags: chemicals, PFAS, water

EFSA created TKPlate, a platform for predicting the toxicity of chemicals without animal testing

24 Nov 2023

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

Hazardous chemicals banned in the EU should also be banned for export

09 May 2023

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

ECHA publishes PFAS restriction proposal

09 Feb 2023

ECHA, the European Chemicals Agency, published a restriction proposal on PFAS (per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances, also known as ‘forever chemicals’). The proposal was...

Tags: chemicals, ECHA, Environment, health, PFAS

European Commission publishes its chemicals strategy

14 Oct 2020

The EC published its new Chemicals Strategy on the 14th October (read it here). The EU chemicals strategy aims to address the cumulative and combined effects of chemicals, includin...

Tags: chemicals, EFSA, European Commission, green deal, Pesticides

Researchers declare hazardous chemicals in food packaging a ‘global health threat’

12 Mar 2020

A team of international researchers recently issued a warning concerning chemicals in single-use plastic and food packaging in general. More than 200 NGOs have signed a call to act...

Tags: chemicals, Food Packaging, Packaged Food, REACH

Agrifood manufacturers can do without E171

27 Jan 2020

The last few months have seen a growing awareness amongst the general public about the concerning issue of titanium dioxide in food –food addtive E171– with almost 85,0...

Tags: chemicals, E171, Industry, Petition, titanium dioxide

Call for new EU legislation on Food Contact Materials to be based on five key principles

18 Sep 2019

SAFE and 24 NGOs welcome the European Commission’s initiative to evaluate the EU’s food contact material (FCM) legislation in a joint letter. The evaluation, including the furt...

Tags: chemicals, Circular Economy, European Commission, FCM, Transparency