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By Brian Ronholm Director of Food Policy at Consumer Reports, and Liz Hitchcock Director at Safer Chemicals Healthy Families
The next time you order takeout at a favorite restaurant, there is a
Continue Reading It’s time for Congress to ban toxic ‘forever chemicals’ from food packaging
Scientists from Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and Nanyang Technological University Singapore have developed a biodegradable food packaging material that kills harmful microbes and could extend the shelf-life of fresh fruit by two
Continue Reading Scientists invent biodegradable bacteria-killing packaging
China has tightened import rules after finding the virus that causes COVID-19 on packaging of fruit from Vietnam and Thailand.
At least nine Chinese cities have recorded positive coronavirus tests in relation to dragon fruit
Continue Reading China steps up checks after coronavirus fruit findings
There is no credible evidence of food or food packaging associated with or as a likely source of viral transmission of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), the virus causing COVID-19, according to the
Continue Reading U.S. officials say there’s nothing to suggest food or food packaging spread of COVID-19
An annual survey has recorded an increase in global anxiety about food safety and future food supplies. The U.S. was one of nine countries involved in the research.
The 13th edition of the Tetra Pak
Continue Reading Research records rise in global concern about food safety
China continues to report the presence of coronavirus on imported food products and packaging.
Recent reports include detection of coronavirus on packages of shrimp from Saudi Arabia, fish from India, beef from Brazil and Argentina,
Continue Reading China reports further food-related coronavirus findings
It is highly unlikely that SARS-CoV-2 is a food safety risk, according to an international group of scientists.
The International Commission for Microbiological Specifications of Foods (ICMSF) is a non-governmental organization and an observer to
Continue Reading Experts affirm that coronavirus is ‘highly unlikely’ to be food risk
A bill to ban the use of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances known as PFAS, that are a group of man-made chemicals that includes PFOA, PFOS, GenX, and many other chemicals in food packaging after Dec.31,
Continue Reading New York likely to become third state to ban PHAS in food packaging
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
Continue Reading FDA’s food additive regulations fail to address toxic chemicals in food
Today, the FDA doubled-down on its flawed 2005 and 2017 decisions to allow the hazardous chemical perchlorate to be added to dry food packaging. The FDA denied a request for a public hearing submitted
Continue Reading FDA refuses to reconsider decision on hazardous chemical in food packaging
