A high non-compliance rate has been found in Austria as part of an operation targeting imported supplements.
Results come from a multi-agency control campaign on food supplements sold on the Internet.
The operation involved the Federal Office of Consumer Health (BAVG), the Austrian Customs Office, and the Austrian Agency for
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The European Commission has set new limits for the use of nitrites and nitrates as food additives.
The tighter levels aim to protect against pathogenic bacteria such as Listeria, Salmonella, and Clostridium botulinum, while reducing the exposure to nitrosamines, some of which are carcinogenic.
Based on a previous scientific assessment
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The European Commission is to lift import restrictions for food from Japan following the accident at the Fukushima nuclear power station in 2011.
Ursula von der Leyen, president of the EU Commission, said the European Union had agreed to remove the remaining restrictive import measures linked to the incident.
“We have taken
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No major areas of concern have been found during an assessment of glyphosate by the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA).
Glyphosate is a chemical used in some herbicide products. It is currently approved for use in the EU until mid-December 2023.
EFSA did not identify any critical areas of concern
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Norway is hoping for an exemption to European rules on shelf-life labeling of eggs, partly because of its good Salmonella record.
In December 2022, an EU regulation entered into force that extended the period eggs can be sold to the consumer to 28 days after laying by hens. However, another
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The European Commission has tightened the rules on the presence of arsenic in food products.
The allowed concentration of inorganic arsenic in white rice is lowered, while there are new limits for arsenic in some rice-based food items, infant formula, baby foods, fruit juices, and salt.
Arsenic is present at low
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Actions on food safety speak loudest when it comes to building trust, according to the deputy commissioner for food policy and response at the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.
“What we say about food safety matters, what we write about food safety matters but most important is what we do,”
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Norwegian officials have written to the European Commission to express their concerns about potential changes to rules around the shelf life of eggs.
Ingvild Kjerkol, Minister of Health and Care Services, and Sandra Borch, Minister of Agriculture and Food in Norway, sent a letter to Stella Kyriakides, EU Commissioner for Health
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The European Commission has said there is no indication that alerts made by Bulgaria about Salmonella in Polish poultry meat in 2020 were not justified.
Krzysztof Jurgiel, former Polish Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, and member of the European Conservatives and Reformists group in the EU Parliament, asked whether
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Trade in shellfish between the United States and Europe is set to resume after more than a decade.
Spain and the Netherlands will be allowed to export chilled or frozen shellfish such as mussels, clams, oysters and scallops to the U.S., whilst the states of Massachusetts and Washington can do
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