Scientists at supplement manufacturer NOW have validated a new test method for finding pesticide residues in difficult-to-analyze botanicals, such as Hawthorn extract.
Since our last Brussels Bulletin, the FAO has published its Food Price Index – indicating that world food prices took a significant hit last month. In the EU, Belgium approved the manufacture of alcohol from breweries and distilleries for disinfectants,...
What will food and farming in 2030 look like? The Commission makes its predictions; the EU opens a centre to fight global malnutrition and guidance for manufacturers using nanoparticles is published. This is our round-up of news and views from the EU.
Buy Danish or organic fruit and vegetables to reduce intake of pesticide residues, says Denmark’s National Food Institute - although must residues do not exceed safe limits.
The health risk from pesticide residues in food is low, according to a report by the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA), with 97% of samples within legal limits - but this is an "upbeat" interpretation which ignores the cocktail effect, critics...
97% of food samples tested in the EU are free of pesticide residues or contain traces that are within legal limits, according to 2014 data published this week by the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA).
A study that claimed men who eat fruits and vegetables with higher levels of pesticide residues could have lower sperm count should be interpreted with caution, said health professionals.
Pesticide residues in raw and processed foods clearly exceeded legal limits in 1.5% of European foods in 2013, according to a new assessment from the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA).
The European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) has said that fewer illegal pesticide residues were found in foods in 2009 compared to 2006 in a report published yesterday.
The European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) has said that a study on pesticide residues in food found 96 per cent of samples complied with legal maximum levels for the chemicals.
The latest report from the UK's Pesticide Residues Committee (PRC)
has raised fresh concerns about residues being found in apples sold
at retail, and in fruit supplied to schools under the School Fruit
and Vegetable Scheme.
Processors need to put more pressure on growers to reduce pesticide
levels in their cereal crops, according to a guidance document from
the UK's food safety regulator.
Not long after a New Zealand report damning the health claims
associated with organic foods, a new study which compared pesticide
residue data on fresh produce grown organically and conventionally
has found significant difference...
