Food & Flavors

The Swiss Department of the Interior has amended its 2016 Ordinance on the Maximum Levels of Contaminants (known as the VHK), which regulates the production of foodstuffs. In addition to modifying the text of the legislation and six of the 10 existing annexes, the amendment introduces a new Annex 11,...

Summary On 25 April 2019 France officially banned the use of titanium dioxide (E 171) effective 1 January 2020. The ban will remain in force until at least 31 December 2020, after which it may be renewed for another year. Verisk 3E Review On 25 April 2019 the French Ministry...

This blog post has been updated since its original publication. Summary On 7 July 2016, the U.S. Senate voted 63-30 to approve a genetically modified organisms (GMO) bill (S. 764) that, if enacted, would preempt state GMO labeling laws by making it a federal requirement that food companies label their...

On 26 October 2015, the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), an agency of the World Health Organization (WHO), published its evaluation of the carcinogenicity of the consumption of red meat and processed meat. The IARC Monographs Programme has classified the consumption of red meat as probably carcinogenic to humans (Group 2A). Processed meat was classified as carcinogenic to humans (Group 1). This evaluation will be included in Volume 114 of the IARC Monographs.

Over the last two weeks, I’ve had the privilege of attending two prestigious industry conferences, including the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA) public meeting in Washington D.C. on April 23-24, 2015 and The 17th Annual Food Safety Summit held April 27-30 at the Baltimore Convention Center.

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