Exposure to BPA reduces successful IVF treatments, studies find; eating soy may protect women from BPA’s adverse reproductive effects, according to most recent study
February 26, 2016
Opinion: FDA reviews needed
Survey finds consumers increasingly value safety and transparency in their food; Tom Neltner argues that meeting these demands necessitates FDA review of all food product ingredients
February 18, 2016
Australians’ exposure to food packaging chemicals is low
Food standards agency of Australia and New Zealand tests foods and beverages for 30 packaging chemicals; half of chemicals detected at low levels (ppm/ppb) in tested samples
January 19, 2016
Chemical migration from plastic containers
Danish consumer council tests plastic lunch boxes and food containers; no chemicals of concern detected; some containers showed considerable overall chemical migration into warm fatty foods
December 7, 2015
FDA: FCMs subject to import verification rule
U.S. Food and Drug Administration decides that also food contact substances in imported food need to be compliant with U.S. standards
November 16, 2015
Microplastics in table salt
News study finds micrcoplastics in sea salts, lake salts, and rock/well salts commercially available in China; other contamination sources in addition to plastic ocean pollution likely
October 19, 2015
Workshop on EDCs in the food chain
Swedish Chemicals Agency and Swedish National Food Agency hold workshop on endocrine active substances in food on November 3, 2015 in Uppsala, Sweden; registration open until October 20, 2015
September 18, 2015
Web stream available for EFSA conference
EFSA conference on food safety on October 14-16, 2015 in Milan, Italy can be followed live via web stream; questions for Q&A sessions can be submitted via Twitter or EFSA-Expo website
September 4, 2015
EFSA conference on food safety
EFSA hosts 2nd scientific conference on food safety on October 14-16, 2015 in Milan, Italy
April 23, 2013
Opinion: use inert containers when heating food
An article published in the Wall Street Journal points to chemical exposures from plastic food containers
