New Zealand Food Safety has decided to keep glyphosate residue limits the same following a public consultation.
There was a proposal to change maximum residue levels (MRLs) for glyphosate in
The World Citrus Organisation (WCO) has raised concerns about the growing trend of private food safety standards imposed by retailers.
WCO said the “non-scientific” requirements threaten the sustainability of the
The European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) has published an annual report looking at pesticide residue levels in food.
The EFSA carried out a dietary risk assessment as part of its
The European Union reported more sanitary and phytosanitary (SPS) alerts in 2024 than the year before, with many of them relating to food safety.
In 2024, 2,147 SPS notifications
Data showing the scale of pesticide residues on food have been published by the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA).
110,829 food samples were collected in the European Union in
The number of samples with pesticide residues above the legal limit has gone down in the European Union compared to the year before.
Almost 88,000 samples were collected in
There has been a rise in findings of pesticides in food above legal limits, according to data published by the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA).
The rate of maximum residue
The United States was involved in one of the 10 new issues raised at a recent World Trade Organization meeting on food safety and trade.
Almost 50 specific trade concerns
The non-compliance rate for pesticides in foods decreased in 2019, according to a report published by the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA).
The report is based on data from official
Officials in Germany and Denmark have reported low levels of pesticide residues in food.
A report, published by the German Federal Office for Consumer Protection and Food Safety (BVL), is
The United States raised four new issues at a meeting of the World Trade Organization (WTO) committee on food safety and animal and plant health this past month.
The Committee
Table grapes and peppers were among products that most often exceeded residue limits in random testing, according to the annual report on pesticides in food in the European Union.
The
