The food industry must control the presence of dioxins, furans and polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) more accurately, according to a European Commission recommendation.
A new EFSA report says that dietary exposure to dioxins and polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), toxic chemicals that accumulate in the food chain, has decreased across Europe in recent years.
Dioxin-contaminated eggs that entered the food chain in Germany and the Netherlands are not expected to cause any adverse health effects but such exposure was unacceptable, said the German food safety body.
Norwegian omega-3 supplier Epax has introduced new maximum limits
for environmental pollutant levels in its oils, which it expects
will further boost consumer confidence in products.
Comforting news for parents as survey of infant formula by the UK's
food watchdog finds levels of harmful chemicals, dioxins and
dioxin-like polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), in infant formula
have fallen significantly over the...
Levels of dioxins and dioxin-like environmental pollutants PCBs in
food have fallen by around 50 per cent in the UK over three years,
according to a recent study from food safety agency, the Food
Standards Agency (FSA).
Contamination of foods by organohalogens, in particular dioxins
(PCDD and PCDF) and dioxin-like PCBs (polychlorinated biphenyls)
are a real health concern for the food industry, governments and
consumers alike. Dioxins are produced...
A senior official at Belgium's Agriculture Ministry has been
arrested following the discovery of new cases of pig feed that had
not been tested for cancer-causing chemicals.
