South Africa Relating to Health Messages on Container Labels of Alcoholic Beverages

Food Authority EFSA published this week its pesticide residue monitoring report (data for 2016) on the level of contamination of vegetables and fruit in European food outlets. The percentage of multiple residues in consumed European vegetables and fruit increased again to the extreme high rate of 30,1 % as the graph below shows. Almost 1 in 3 of al...

The UK is proposing reciprocal non-regression commitments on environmental standards, in addition to a reciprocal commitment to ongoing environmental cooperation. The UK will introduce an independent, statutory body to hold the government to account on its environmental protections and obligations in England, and have consulted on the body&rsq...

With growing evidence that some chemicals found in food colorings, preservatives, and packaging materials may harm children’s health, a new American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) policy statement calls for urgently needed reforms to the U.S. food additive regulatory process. According to the statement in the August 2018 Pediatrics, “...

Many outdoor garments are impregnated to make them water and, in some cases oil repellent, but the impregnation agents can be hazardous to human health and the environment. Some examples of such hazardous impregnation agents include per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances. To reduce the risks related to these fluorinated substances, a phase-o...

Draft secondary notification assessment on Ethanaminium, 2-... available for public comment. The public comment period for this report closes on 4 September 2018>.Link to draft reportBackground: Ethanaminium, 2-..., Chemical Abstracts Service Registry Number (CAS RN) 157905-74-3, is a chemical of unknown or variable compositi...