Tag: Standards
Europe: Codex Alimentarius Committee sets new food safety standards in infant...
United Nations (UN) food standards body the Codex Alimentarius Commission has in this week adopted new standards to protect consumer health worldwide, including setting...
Europe: UK releases guidance on glitters, dusts for decorating food
The Food Standards Agency in the UK has issued guidance on the legal requirements on dusts and glitters for food decoration.
This follows after EdAble...
Asia Pacific: Study finds acrylamide, aluminum levels in foods of concern,...
Food Standards Australia New Zealand (FSANZ) has released the first phase of the 24th Australian Total Diet Study (ATDS) that looked at Australian consumers’...
Asia Pacific: Eating apricot kernels could pose safety risk, says FSANZ
​Food Standards Australia New Zealand (FSANZ) has released findings showing that eating raw apricot kernels could pose a public health and safety risk to...
Europe: COT publishes position paper on aspartame study
UK-based Committee on Toxicity of Chemicals in Food, Consumer products and the Environment (COT) has peered reviewed a double blind randomized crossover study of...
Asia: Chinese Taipei donates $80,000 to food safety, animal and plant...
Chinese Taipei has donated $80,000 to the Swiss-based Standards and Trade Development Facility (STDF) in 2013 to help developing countries establish and implement sanitary...