Recent cases requiring the Government Chemist’s help have ranged from genetically modified rice from China to pesticides and mycotoxins in different foods, according to a referee analyst.
Paul Hancock told attendees at the Government Chemist Conferen
The number of samples with pesticide residues above the legal limit has gone down in the European Union compared to the year before.
Almost 88,000 samples were collected in Europe in 2021. Overall, 96 percent of them fell within legally permitted lev
A sensor is being developed by an EU-funded consortium to check for pesticides or bacteria in fruits and vegetables.
The project, called GRACED, is coordinated by the Cyprus Research and Innovation Centre and includes experts from across Europe.
The latest report on pesticide residues in food in the European Union is now available, giving a snapshot of residue levels found in a basket of products widely consumed in the territory.
A total of 96,302 samples were analysed in 2019, 96.1% of whi
This is another example of where an authenticity issue can have a very direct effect on food safety. The consequences for nature and humans are incalculable. Nobody knows what these pesticides are made of, which and how much toxins they contain.
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In the latest blog in our Brexit Briefing Updates blog series, Josie Cohen and her colleagues at Pesticide Action Network UK (PAN UK) revisit their briefing on ‘Brexit and pesticides: UK food and agriculture at a crossroads’. They warn that there are
Europeans continue to eat food that is largely free of pesticide residues or which contains levels of residues within legal limits, the latest monitoring figures show.
More than 96% of samples analysed for the latest annual report on pesticide residu
Most uses of neonicotinoid pesticides represent a risk to wild bees and honeybees, according to assessments published today by EFSA. The Authority has updated its risk assessments of three neonicotinoids – clothianidin, imidacloprid and thiamethoxam.
Food scientists from the National University of Singapore (NUS) developed a rapid and highly sensitive screening technique capable of detecting minute amounts of pyrethroids in vegetables
China plans to eliminate another 12 highly toxic pesticides from use within five years, state media reported late on Monday (Dec 5), as the government looks to improve the safety of its farm produce.
Dutch food and consumer product safety authority NVWA decided to test chicken meat for fipronil after all. Admin from company ChickFriend showed that the company used the toxic insecticide at a number of meat companies too, AD reports.
The most extensive study to date on neonicotinoid pesticides concludes that they harm both honeybees and wild bees. The study spanned 2,000 hectares across the UK, Germany and Hungary and was set up to establish the "real-world" impacts of the pestic
Food consumed in the European Union continues to be largely free of pesticide residues or to contain residues that fall within legal limits, new figures show. The latest monitoring report published by EFSA reveals that more than 97% of food samples c
China has decided to apply stricter rules on pesticide production and imports to improve food safety and environment protection in the world's most populous country. Chinese Premier Li Keqiang signed a State Council decree on Saturday to promulgate a
Recent comparative product testing by city-based Consumer Education and Research Centre (CERC), found traces of pesticides and heavy metals in six supposedly-organic brands of rice. Three brands of rice sold as organic had traces of the pesticide chl
