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AstaZine Secures Novel Food Approval in Ireland
Nov 30, 2016BGG and its subsidiary Algae Health Sciences (AlgaeHealth) have announced that their flagship product, AstaZine Natural Astaxanthin, has won Novel Food approval from the Food Safety Authority of Ireland. The new approval will allow BGG to ...
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European Regulator Issues New Safety Guidance for Food From Third Countries
Nov 14, 2016The European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) has come up with new guidance documents relating to the safety of novel and traditional food from third countries. According to EFSA, the fresh regulation has been made in an attempt to ensure the ...
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EFSA Completes Re-Evaluation of Food Colours Permitted for Use Before 2009
Sep 21, 2016European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) has completed its re-evaluation of all food colours permitted for use in the European Union before 2009. For the final re-evaluation, EFSA’s experts concluded that available data on titanium ...
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Take The Uncertainty out of SOLAS
Aug 26, 2016Selected mini straddle carriers can now be fitted with VGM container weighing equipment, as a cost-effective solution to the new SOLAS weight requirements that came into effect globally on July 1st 2016. Managing director of Mobicon Mini ...
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Container Weight Rules to Start 1 July
Jun 21, 2016From 1 July 2016, the Australian Maritime Safety Authority (AMSA) will implement changes to regulations for container weight verifications in the shipping industry, requiring shippers to provide a verified gross mass (VGM) for containers. ...
Tags: AMSA, shipping industry, VGM
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Organic Milk and Meat Best for Boosting Omega 3 Consumption
Feb 18, 2016Organic milk and meat contain approximately 50 per cent more omega-3 fatty acids than non-organic options according to a new study published yesterday in Volume 115, Issue 5 of the British Journal of Nutrition. The largest study of its ...
Tags: Organic milk, meat
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SurePure Announces Publication of Efsa Landmark Opinion That UV-Treated Milk Is Safe
Feb 8, 2016SurePure, a global leader in liquid photopurification, announced the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) published its opinion stating that cow's milk treated by SurePure's UltraViolet light photo purification technology after ...
Tags: UV-Treated Milk, SurePure
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Number of Trapped Miners Rise to 19 in NE China Explosion
Dec 18, 2015Rescuers work at the explosion site of a coal mine in Hegang City, northeast China's Heilongjiang Province, Dec. 17, 2015. The number of people trapped underground after an explosion at a coal mine on Wednesday afternoon has risen to 19, ...
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Naturex Secures EFSA Approval on Safety of Thaumatin for Use in Several Food Applications
Nov 26, 2015Manufacturer of plant-based specialty ingredients Naturex has gained European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) approval on the safety of Thaumatin (E 957) for use in a broad range of applications. Talin is a natural extract derived from ...
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European Regulators Affirm Glyphosate Safety
Nov 18, 2015European Union regulators have concluded that the widely used herbicide glyphosate is unlikely to cause cancer, a ruling that runs counter to a controversial assessment issued recently by an arm of the World Health Organization. The ...
Tags: herbicide, glyphosate, fruits, vegetables
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Ajonomoto's Dihydrocapsiate Gains Novel Food Ingredient Status with FSA Approval
Oct 26, 2015The UK Food Standard Agency has awarded marketing authorization to Japanese food producer Ajinomoto Company for dihydrocapsiate (DHC) as a novel food ingredient to be used in powdered drinks and dietary supplements. With the ...
Tags: powdered drinks, DHC, food ingredient
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EFSA Has Identified Standard Storage Period and Carbon Dioxide Level in Packaging
Jul 7, 2015The European Food Safety Authority (EFSA has identified standard storage period and carbon dioxide level in packaging to avoid histamine formation in pre-packaged fishery products. The agency has recommended a combination of storage ...
Tags: food safety, food packaging, EFSA, frozen food
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European Parliament Committee to Ban on Cloning of Farm Animals
Jun 19, 2015The European Parliament's environment and agriculture committee has voted in favor of ban on cloning of farm animals, as well as food products from both clones and their offspring in the EU. This comes in view of potential health risks ...
Tags: Food Products, Cloned Animals
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New Violations of Pesticide Standards
Apr 9, 2015Nearly all food samples tested by European Union officials in 2013 contained legally acceptable amounts of pesticide residue, according to a recent report. The European Food Safety Authority's latest analysis examined nearly 81,000 ...
Tags: Pesticide Standards, pesticide violations, Manufacturing
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Food Law and Policy Development
Apr 2, 2015It was reported on 25 March 2015 that new Country of Origin Labelling laws will be delayed until at least August 2015 despite the Prime Minister’s announcement on 16 February 2015 that country of origin labelling proposals for reform ...
Tags: FSANZ, dietary supplements, Food