A meeting of the Legislative and Governance Forum on Food Regulation (the Forum) has decided there needs to be a monitoring system to track the effectiveness of the proposed Front-of-Pack Labelling (FoPL) system for food. The meeting, ...
Tags: Agriculture, Food
The European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) has concluded that aspartame and its breakdown products are safe for human consumption at current levels of exposure. The announcement comes following a full risk assessment of the aspartame, ...
Tags: Human Consumption, Food Safety
A University of Pittsburgh research team recently published results in the journal PLOSOne regarding omega-3's ability to improve memory. A major difference from other memory studies was their subjects were young, 18 to 25, non-smoking ...
R.W. Knudsen Family has redesigned its juice boxes to provide consumers with convenient, delicious and organic on-the-go refreshment. The juice boxes are the perfect companion for a junior juice connoisseurs' busy back-to-school season and ...
Tags: Packaging, Printing, Refreshment Design
The Canadian Food Inspection Agency’s (CFIA) routine testing of various food products revealed that all infant formulae and foods tested for Bisphenol A (BPA) were free from BPA and safe to consume. BPA is a chemical used in the ...
Tags: Infant Formulae, Food Products
Canada's federal department Health Canada has concluded that the dietary exposure to the chemical Bisphenol A (BPA) through food packaging is not expected to create any health risk to the general population, including newborns and young ...
Tags: Dietary, Food Packaging
Many people account for their daily intake of food, vitamins, coffee and exercise, but what about water? Is anyone really measuring the amount of water you drink on a daily basis? The creators of?Jomi Interactive claim that "70-80% of ...
If you're taking vitamin D pills to ease arthritis in your knee, you might want to reconsider. The supplement didn't stand up to rigorous testing in a clinical study out this week. In the 2-year study, 146 men and women with painful ...
Tags: knee arthritis, vitamin D, clinical study, vitamin
The European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) has launched a full public consultation on the safety of aspartame after publishing its draft opinion, which states it poses “no toxicity” worries for consumers at current levels. ...
Tags: EFSA, public consultation, safety, aspartame
The UK Government has sent a warning shot across the bows of the food industry by launching an advertising campaign to highlight hidden levels of salt, sugar and fat in products. The government's Change4Life scheme, which includes many ...
Tags: UK Government, food industry, advertising campaign, hidden levels, salt
Sainsbury's chief executive Justin King today (9 October) called on the UK food industry to adopt common front-of-pack nutrition labels. King said the sector should "put aside their differences" and introduce "universal" labelling. ...
Tags: Sainsbury, Justin King, food industry, nutrition label
Food Standards Australia New Zealand(FSANZ)has released a new report which confirms that Australian children are consuming low levels of food colors. The new report is an update of the 2008 survey of added colors in foods available in ...
Tags: FSANZ, added colors in foods, report
Tesco has announced plans to add traffic-light labels to the nutritional information it puts on products. The decision, revealed today (22 August), is a major change in strategy from Tesco, which has favoured labels that show guideline ...