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Synthetic Chemicals in Food: A Hidden Public Health Risk
16 May 2025
A team of researchers from the Food Packaging Forum, INSERM, New York University, and ETH Zurich has identified synthetic chemicals in food as a critical yet overlooked threat to p...
Tags: Food contact chemicals, Health risks, Synthetic chemicals, UPFs
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Parkinson’s Disease: A New Reason to Limit Ultra-Processed Foods
12 May 2025
Ultra-processed foods undergo many modifications, making their raw ingredients almost unrecognisable. Examples include snacks, industrial pastries, biscuits, pre-cooked meals, saus...
Tags: Parkinson's, Prodro, UPFs
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EU food industry downplays study linking ultra-processed foods with early death
02 May 2025
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Tags: HFSS, premature death, UPFs
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Study links ultra-processed foods to premature deaths
28 Apr 2025
A study published in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine has linked the consumption of ultra-process foods to premature mortality. Previous studies have consistently found ...
Tags: NCDs, premature death, UPFs
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French researchers find hard evidence of cocktail effects of food additives
09 Apr 2025
For the first time, a broad-based study has found evidence of cocktail effects of certain combinations of food additives. Researchers in the field of nutritional epidemiology from ...
Tags: cocktail effect, Food Additives, UPFs
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HFSS foods and UPFs highly overlap, British study finds
31 Mar 2025
Over half of ultra-processed foods (UPFs) consumed in the UK are also foods high in fat, salt, and sugar — either measured by food type or amount of calories —, according to a ...
Tags: HFSS foods, ultra-processed foods, UPFs