The European Commission passed a major milestone in regulating health claims on food by approving a list of 222 permitted health claims that can appear on products in the European Union. Food manufacturers will have six months to adapt their practices to the new ...More
Just weeks after the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) rejected a petition to ban the much-debated chemical bisphenol A (BPA) from food and beverage packaging, the government of Sweden banned the use of (BPA) in packaging for food intended for children under the age ...More
The European Commission announced its intent to reintroduce a proposal that would create a nutrient profiling system to restrict claims on certain foods in 2013. The profiling system would restrict products considered to be "unhealthy" from making nutrition and/or ...More
There is not enough scientific data to support a link between FDA-approved food colors and the increased incidence of attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), according to results of a new meta-analysis published in the Journal of the American Academy of Child & ...More
The European Commission asked the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) in 2010 to re-evaluate the safety of all previously authorized food additives by 2020, taking into account the latest science. Based on EFSA’s scientific advice, the European Commission and Member ...More
A consortium led by TNO is in the process of developing a global standard for substantiating health claims of food, which will provide manufacturers greater insight into the effects and allow them to develop new health-promoting food as well as provide better scientific ...More
The European Commission approved three genetically modified corn varieties from Syngenta AG for food and feed use, import and processing after member states failed to provide a qualified majority either in favor or against the approvals. The approval does not allow for ...More
European Commission on Nov. 11 formally adopted the regulation to allow the use of steviol glycosides as a sweetener for foods and beverages in the 27 member states. The regulation, which was published Nov. 12 in the EU Official Journal, becomes effective Dec. 2. ...More
Researchers at Fraunhofer Institute for Molecular Biology and Applied Ecology IME for the first time have developed a system to test whether chemical substances accumulate in cultivated fish that are fed contaminated feed. The discovery is significant since half of all fish ...More
Following a request from the European Commission, the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA), the Scientific Panel on Food Additives and Nutrient Sources added to Food (ANS) issued a scientific opinion re-evaluating the safety of butylated hydroxyanisole (BHA) when used as ...More
SupplySide
