March 31 (Reuters) - The American Heart Association's new nutrition guidance, released on Tuesday, emphasized a dietary pattern rich in vegetables, ？fruits and whole grains, prioritizing plant-based protein over meat. It also suggested limiting the ‌use of sugar, salt and ultra-processed foods...

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration isannouncing a public meetingto be held on March 27, 2026, entitled “Exploring the Scope of Dietary Supplement Ingredients.” The meeting will help inform the FDA’s next steps regarding the meaning of the dietary ingredient categories defined in...

PARIS, Jan 31 (Reuters) - France has lowered the safety limit forcereulide toxinin infant formula, aiming to strengthen protections after several major groups ordered worldwide recalls over contamination concerns, the farm ministry said on Saturday. Cereulide, which can cause nausea and vomiting, h...

Children will be protected from exposure to junk food ads under new regulations, in a bid to tackle childhood obesity Government delivers on pledge to restrict junk food advertising and help parents raise healthiest generation of children ever New regulations will remove up to 7.2 billi...

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration today announced the deployment of agentic AI capabilities for all agency employees. Agentic AI capabilities will enable the creation of more complex AI workflows — harnessing various AI models — to assist with multi-step tasks. Agentic AI refers to ...

Research Highlights: A review of 5 years of health records for more than 130,000 adults with insomnia who had used melatonin for at least a year found they were more likely to be diagnosed with heart failure, require hospitalization for the condition or die from any cause. The association betwee...

The Food Standards Agency (FSA) has today launched a 12-week public consultation on the proposal to ban the use of Bisphenol A (BPA) along with other bisphenols in materials that come into contact with food products. This consultation follows a recommendation by the FSA to remove BPA and similar ...

Today, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is releasing theresultsfrom a sampling assignment conducted during 2022 to 2024 on testing of frozen seafood products for short weighting. Short weighting can occur in frozen seafood when the net weight includes the weight of the added water glaze o...

Microbiological testing can play an important role in food safety management providing the reason for testing is clear and the test applied is appropriate. Microbiological criteria support decision making about a food or process when microbiological testing is used. A microbiological criterion ...

AGENCY: Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS), U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA). ACTION: Final rule. SUMMARY: FSIS is amending the Federal meat inspection regulations to remove the provisions providing for FSIS' sampling and testing of pumped bacon for nitrosamines. FSIS stopped samp...