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Thursday, December 6, 2018 - 09:34
EFSA has set a new deadline for completion of two pilot assessments on the risks posed by humans by residues of multiple pesticides in food. The full risk assessments of the cumulative effects of...
Monday, December 3, 2018 - 09:56
IFST welcomes this review of standards delivery and recognises the importance of the compliance work to ensure that food is safe, what it says it is and consumers have the information to make...
Thursday, November 29, 2018 - 09:07
EFSA has published its third summary report on the monitoring of transmittable spongiform encephalopathies (TSEs) in the EU. The report provides results on data collected by all EU Member States,...
Wednesday, November 28, 2018 - 09:13
The Chief Veterinary Officers across the UK are encouraging all poultry keepers to prepare for winter Avian Flu threat through biosecurity measures.
There are some simple measures that all bird...
Wednesday, November 28, 2018 - 09:04
EFSA has launched a consultation on the follow-up to its 2016 scientific opinion on the acute health risks from cyanogenic glycosides in raw apricot kernels.
Tiny traces of naturally-occurring...
Wednesday, November 28, 2018 - 08:51
Food Standards Scotland and the Food Standards Agency have published the report of a four year research project which provides important new evidence on E. coli O157 - a bacterium carried by cattle...
Tuesday, November 20, 2018 - 15:15
EFSA has confirmed the conclusion of its previous assessments that dietary exposure to dioxins and dioxin like PCBs – environmental pollutants present at low levels in food and feed – is a health...
Wednesday, November 14, 2018 - 10:23
The government has published its review of the 25 Year Bovine TB (bTB) Strategy which was led by Sir Charles Godfray.
The report, which was commissioned by Environment Secretary Michael Gove in...
Tuesday, November 13, 2018 - 11:13
The Food Standards Agency has published the Year 3 results of an EU survey commissioned to assess the frequency of certain types of antimicrobial resistance (AMR) E. coli in raw UK retail pork and...
Tuesday, November 13, 2018 - 08:43
The European Food Safety Authority has launched a public consultation on its proposed guidance for the use of the threshold of toxicological concern (TTC) approach in food safety assessment.
The...