Today, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is issuing final guidance for the food industry that provides voluntary, short-term (2.5 year) sodium reduction targets for a broad range of processed, packaged and prepared foods to help reduce the amount of sodium in the U.S. food supply. Sodiu...

？？Food Standards Australia New Zealand (FSANZ) is seeking public comment on its proposed approach to changing the definitions for 'food produced using gene technology' and 'gene technology'.  These definitions determine what foods are classed as genetically modified (GM) foods under the Aust...

Today, Member States approved the European Commission's proposal to ban the use of Titanium Dioxide (E171) as a food additive from 2022. Titanium Dioxide is used as a colorant in a number of products such as chewing gum, pastries, food supplements, soups and broths. Commissioner Stella Kyriakides, i...

Abstract The European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) was asked by the European Commission to provide scientific assistance with respect to the evaluation of applications received by the European Commission concerning basic substances. In this context, EFSA’s scientific views on the specific poi...

Millions of people living with food allergies, intolerances and coeliac disease will be able to make safer choices about the food they buy as a new allergen labelling law comes into effect today, 1 October. The changes, also known as Natasha’s Law, require businesses to label all food that ...

Summary This document provides updated population health recommendations for feeding babies and toddlers, from birth to two years of age, to promote healthy growth and development and help establish healthy eating behaviours. The document is written for health practitioners and others who provid...

The Food Standards Agency will continue to listen to, inform and advise consumers on food safety and standards – as the government sets out its plans for the future of gene editing in England (Opens in a new window). On Wednesday 29th September 2021, Environment Secretary George Eustice ann...

The Food Safety Authority of Ireland (FSAI) today published a new report evaluating the use of declared nutrition labels on breakfast cereals to see whether labelled nutritional values can be used to monitor food reformulation of food sold on the Irish market. The report, Reformulation of breakfast ...

New plans to unlock the power of gene editing to help our farmers grow more resistant, more nutritious and more productive crops have been published as part of the government response to the gene editing consultation, announced today (29 September) by Environment Secretary George Eustice. The res...

Fifteen recent cases of lead poisoning have been linked with traditional ceramic ware used for preparing or serving food and drink Traditional ceramic ware has been found to contain lead levels thousands of times greater than the allowable limit September 28, 2021 — The Health Department...