EFSA
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Campaigners demand Brexit protection of EU laws
Campaign groups have welcomed a government commitment to bring current EU environmental protections into UK law but called for more detail on how such laws would be upheld and enforced post-Brexit. Last week the UK government published its Brexit white… Read More
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Acrylamide: a hot potato for the EU
Commissioners are trying to untangle a messy situation regarding rules for the food contaminant – and neither industry nor health campaigners are happy. The European Commission wants to introduce new regulations to reduce levels of acrylamide in certain foods. The… Read More
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Glyphosate, the world’s leading weedkiller
The herbicide plays a key role in modern farming but the EU is under growing pressure to ban it amid claims it causes cancer. What is glyphosate? Glyphosate is the world’s most widely used herbicide (weedkiller), not least because it’s… Read More
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MEPs back glyphosate
MEPs have defied a majority of Europeans who want to see the herbicide glyphosate banned in agriculture by voting in favour of its reauthorisation. The non-binding resolution was passed on Wednesday and represents a victory for farmers’ groups who have… Read More
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Safety concerns intensify over bacterial resistance
Bacteria are fighting back and it’s got the European Food Safety Authority in a sweat. The findings of the latest annual Europe-wide report by EFSA and the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) “underline again that antimicrobial resistance poses… Read More
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EFSA completes full risk assessment on aspartame
ASPARTAME AND its breakdown products are safe for human consumption at current levels of exposure, EFSA concludes in its first full risk assessment of this sweetener. To carry out its risk assessment, EFSA has undertaken a rigorous review of all… Read More