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241[USA] GRAS Acrylamide-Reducing Baker’s Yeast Strain Gets OK from FDA (2016-05-30)Renaissance BioScience Corporation--a global yeast innovation company--has announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved the company’s Generally Regarded as Safe (GRAS) notice for its nonGMO, acrylamide-reducing (AR) baker’s yeast strain. “The accep...2016-06-01
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240[USA] Extreme weather increasing level of toxins in food, scientists warn (2016-05-31)NAIROBI (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - As they struggle to deal with more extreme weather, a range of food crops are generating more of chemical compounds that can cause health problems for people and livestock who eat them, scientists have warned. A new report by the United Nations Environme...2016-06-01
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239[UK] EU to propose shorter glyphosate license renewal: sources (2016-05-30)European Union states will meet next week in an effort to agree a far shorter license renewal for herbicide glyphosate before the current one expires, which would require the phasing out of products such as Monsanto's Roundup. The EU executive will put a new proposal for a license renewal...2016-06-01
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238[Canada] Health Canada to propose allowing the sale of irradiated ground beef (2016-05-31)EDMONTON - Health Canada will propose regulatory changes to Food and Drug Regulations next month that would allow the sale of irradiated ground beef in Canada. A page on the department's website states the proposed amendments would add fresh and frozen raw ground beef to a list of foods t...2016-06-01
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237[Australia] Aldi to phase caged-eggs out by 2025 (2016-05-30)Aldi Australia is phasing out cage-eggs by 2025 not-long after a 14-year-old girl gathered 100, 000 signatures to lobby the supermarket to go cage-free. Melbourne teenager, Angelina Popovski, started the petition online in March 2016 claiming caged-eggs were a “out-dated practice”...2016-06-01
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236[USA] ASPA slams senate vote on Catfish Inspection program (2016-05-30)The American Shrimp Processors Association (ASPA) has condemned a senate vote in favour of repealing the USDA’s Catfish Inspection program. http://www.foodqualitynews.com/Regulation-and-safety/Senate-votes-to-end-USDA-catfish-inspection2016-06-01
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235[USA] Manufacturers of canned crab meat, corn salsa get warning letters (2016-05-23)Pasteurized canned crab meat and black bean and corn salsa were among the foods that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) was concerned about this month. FDA sent a warning letter on May 5, 2016, to the Empire Crab Company in Philadelphia because the agency found that its pasteurized c...2016-05-31
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234[Australia] Irradiation food labelling review draws mixed response (2016-05-28)A trans-Tasman review into the necessity of labelling food treated with ionising radiation has drawn a mixed response from industry groups, consumers and activists. While most industry groups and corporations that produced submissions to Food Standards Australia New Zealand were supportive of...2016-05-31
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233[USA] Cities proposing taxes on sugary soft drinks (2016-05-29)Some cities are singling out sugar-sweetened drinks for proposals to add taxes or warning labels, borrowing from the playbook used to largely stamp out smoking a generation ago. The war on sugary drinks is being conducted by cities hungry for new sources of revenue that also see themselves as...2016-05-31
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232[Australia] Half Yearly Performance Report Snapshot - July to December 2015 (2016-05-26)The TGA provides information on our regulatory performance to our stakeholders through the reports against the TGA key performance indicators and measures: Regulator Performance Framework. In addition to reporting against the Regulator Performance Framework, we will also publish our Key Performan...2016-05-30