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Tell FDA: Tighten Restrictions on Food Additives and Ingredients

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is proposing a rule change to require food companies to notify regulators before introducing ingredients or additives into processed or packa...

New FDA loophole would allow toxic chemicals into food

No longer will Americans have to go without delicious and inexpensive industrial dyes in their foodstuffs. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is reportedly to allow additives to...

FDA steps up enforcement on importers because of illegal colors, pesticides and unsafe additives

The Food and Drug Administration uses import alerts to enforce U.S. food safety regulations for food from foreign countries. The agency updates and modifies the alerts as needed.Re...

Hong Kong Proposes Updated Sweetener Regulations in Alignment with Codex Standards

The amendments would bring sugar alcohols under sweetener regulations, expand the number of permitted sweeteners, and establish more than 900 maximum permitted levels.

FDA’s Worrisome Proposal on Toxins in Food Additives

According to the Guardian news site, a proposed new FDA regulation  will  “expand a controversial loophole to allow some of the world’s most toxic chemicals to be added directly to...

A processed-foods researcher and mom of 2 says there are 2 additives on labels she avoids at all costs

Elizabeth Dunford, a nutrition epidemiologist, studies additives in ultra-processed foods and their impact on health.

To Support Sodium Reduction Goals, FDA Amends SOIs for 139 Foods to Allow Salt Substitutes

A final rule now permits the use of salt substitutes in foods with standards of identity (SOI) that specify salt (sodium chloride) as a required or optional ingredient.

FSSAI proposes to restrict addition of sucrose, fructose in products for infants up to six months

Restriction aimed at addressing concerns associated with early exposure to added sugars, supporting appropriate infant feeding practices, FSSAI says

New health warning

Susannah: The addictive Xylitol Is that a typo? Additive?

EFSA Reevaluates Safety of Sweetener Aspartame-Acesulfame, Raises No Concerns

EFSA’s Panel on Food Additives and Flavorings (FAF) found no safety concerns associated with the currently reported uses and use levels of acesulfame K (E 950), aspartame (E 951),...

FDA Quietly Included Provision in GRAS Proposed Rule to Expand One ‘Loophole’ While Tightening Another

The proposal would expand the Threshold of Regulation (TOR) exemption to include food additives and ingredients, which would allow chemicals to enter the U.S. food supply without o...

New Nutrition Study Finds Associations Between Food Preservatives and Higher Rates of Hypertension and Heart Disease

A quick look at a food label can reveal ingredients most shoppers rarely think about. A new nutrition study has put some familiar additives under scientific scrutiny after research...

Front-of-the-pack warning labels : An explainer

The FSSAI has said that it will adopt threshold values for added sugar, added fat and salt as provided in the Dietary Guidelines for Indians, 2024, issued by ICMR-NIN

The fire retardant in the seafood chain

A chemical additive helped stop fishmeal from catching fire on ships, but it carried a downstream carcinogenic risk to modern food systems.

FDA Issues Final Rule on Salt Substitutes in Standardized Foods

8 Food Preservatives Tied to High Blood Pressure. Two Are Forms of Vitamin C

Nearly everyone in the study ate at least one. Most hide in foods you'd never think to call junk.

FSSAI proposes to ban addition of sucrose and fructose in infant food products

Aimed at restricting the use of added sugar in infant nutrition the Food Safety and Standards Authority of India FSSAI has proposed to prohibit the addition of sucrose and fructose...

Study Finds PFAS in All Tested Commercially Available Plant-Based Protein Supplements

Mycotoxins, PAHs, and other contaminants were also detected. The researchers concluded that plant-based protein supplements may contain chemical contaminants from environmental exp...

FDA steps up import enforcement because of Salmonella, pesticides, illegal colors

The Food and Drug Administration uses import alerts to enforce U.S. food safety regulations for food from foreign countries. The agency updates and modifies the alerts as needed.Re...

FBOs asked to display botanical parts on product labels

The Food Safety and Standards Authority of India FSSAI has issued an advisory making it mandatory for manufacturers of health supplements nutraceuticals and special dietary foods t...

EU Expands Maximum Levels for Three Contaminants in Infant and Baby Foods

Regulation (EU) 2026/1825 expands MLs for 3-monochloropropanediol (3-MCPD) and glycidyl fatty acid esters, and Regulation (EU) 2026/1890 establishes new MLs for furan, 2-methylfura...

Study Proposes Grouping Approach to Prioritize Hazardous Food Contact Chemicals, Prevent Regrettable Substitutions

According to the researchers, 1,222 FCCs are already known to be hazardous to human health, and more than 13,000 lack sufficient data to determine safety. Until adequate data becom...