In a significant development, the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) recently convened Monographs Meeting 134 to assess the potential carcinogenicity of aspartame.
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Codex, the international food standards organization, has taken a significant step in improving food labelling practices by launching a new General Standard for the labelling of non-retail containers of foods.
Titanium dioxide is an additive that adds a bright white colour to coffee creamers, baked goods, chewing gum, hard candies, puddings, frostings, dressings, and sauces.
Codex Committee on Fresh Fruits and Vegetable(CCFFV22) agreed to forward the proposed draft standards to the 45th Session of the Codex Alimentarius Commission (CAC45) for final adoption, noting that the provisions on food labelling and food…
The European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) published extensive literature search (ELS) after collecting and identifying studies published since 2009 and relevant to the topic organic arsenic in combination with the substance group characterisation…
This study aimed at presenting the tools to mitigate food safety risk arising from chemical and microbial hazards influenced by the future effects of climate change and thereby to evaluate the environmental performance of food value chains on the…