The European Commission is to change the rules around the presence of ethylene oxide in food additives.
A revision was made because of the challenge in enforcing the current law because of a lack of
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Batches of a food additive from India have been found to contain undeclared peanut protein prompting authorities to warn of a serious risk to allergic consumers.
The Food Standards Agency (FSA) and Food Standards Scotland
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The Food and Drug Administration is continuing its use of import alerts to enforce U.S. food safety regulations for food from foreign countries. The agency updates and modifies the alerts as needed.
Recent modifications to
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Great Britain will not follow the European Union in banning titanium dioxide as a food additive at this time.
The UK’s Food Standards Agency (FSA) said after reviewing the evidence, no safety concerns have been
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Authorities in the United Kingdom have issued a warning because of a rise in the number of non-compliant food and drink products being imported from countries including the United States.
The problem was identified by
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By Tom Neltner, Environmental Defense Fund Chemicals Policy Director
The latest annual food industry survey demonstrates that U.S. consumers continue to have significant concerns about chemicals in food. Specifically,
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European countries are facing more ethylene oxide related recalls after the substance was detected in a food additive used in a range of products.
Belgium first raised the alarm in September 2020 about ethylene oxide
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Officials in a Mexican state have issued a warning after suspicions that more than 50 people fell sick from eating meat contaminated with Clenbuterol.
Health services in Morelos called on people to remain vigilant for
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A company has been sentenced in New Zealand for adding sulfites to ground beef.
Food manufacturer and wholesalers Machi, operated by Diversity Foods Limited and based in Auckland, was charged under the Food Act 2014
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Editor’s note: Each Spring, attorneys Bill Marler and Denis Stearns teach a Food Safety Litigation course in the LL.M. Program in Agricultural and Food Law at the University of Arkansas School of Law. This
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