Food safety officials in New Zealand are probing a series of botched recalls involving sugar because of lead contamination linked to transportation.
In early November, Chelsea Sugar recalled specific batches of Chelsea, Pams and Woolworths
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A plant commonly referred to as female ginseng and used to make soup is being recalled because of excessive levels of heavy metals.
Murray Int’l Trading of Brooklyn, NY, is recalling its Angelicae Sinensis because
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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has released a study on cake decorating “luster dust” associated with toxic metal poisonings.
Decorating foods with luster dust and similar products is a current trend, popularized on
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Crider Foods of Stillmore, GA, is recalling more than half a million pounds of canned beef with gravy products that may be contaminated with unsafe levels of lead, because of a spice mix used from
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Consumer Reports today (Sept. 29) urged baby food manufacturers and the Food and Drug Administration to take quick and decisive action to address the “disturbing” findings in a new report issued by the U.S.
Continue Reading House report on baby food shows FDA, companies must take action now
The European Commission has set new maximum levels for lead and cadmium in a range of food products to protect public health.
Measures will apply beginning Aug. 30 for limits of lead and a day
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The World Health Organization (WHO) has called for data on two heavy metals in a range of food types.
The first covers methylmercury and total mercury in orange roughy, pink cusk-eel and all toothfish and
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There are reports of more than 80 lawsuits filed against firms that were named in a February congressional report about highly dangerous levels of arsenic and other poisons in baby food.
The report, requested by
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A Codex committee has recommended new maximum levels (MLs) for cadmium in chocolate.
The levels set for cadmium are 0.3 milligrams per kilogram (mg/kg) for chocolate containing up to 30 percent cocoa total solids and
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Janet Woodcock, the acting Commissioner of Food and Drugs, and Susan T. Mayne, director of the Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition (CFSAN) Thursday announced Closer to Zero, a new action plan for
Continue Reading FDA announces ‘Closer to Zero’ plan to reduce toxic elements eaten by babies and young children
