The FDA is strengthening its oversight of food chemicals, signaling a shift towards a more proactive and comprehensive approach to food safety. This move comes in the wake of increasing public concern ...

More than 70% of New Yorkers are very or somewhat concerned about exposure to harmful chemicals in food and drinking water.

On March 20, EPA announced proposed significant new use rules (SNUR) under the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA) to compel companies to report all new uses of five groups of chemicals: ...

WASHINGTON -- New federal rules giving the Bush administration authority for the first time to regulate and even shut down chemical plants will not overrule stricter state rules already in place, ...

The Biden-Harris administration has banned two cancer-causing chemicals, Trichloroethylene (TCE) and Perchloroethylene (PCE), in a "major milestone" for chemical safety. The rules ban all uses of TCE, ...

EPA has amassed more than two dozen lawsuits over its most recent chemicals rules over the past two weeks, but intervention from a Republican-dominated Congress or the incoming Trump administration ...

Top chemical safety officer Nancy Beck said restrictions on dangerous existing chemicals should “mitigate unreasonable risk, not all risk.” EPA’s highest ranking chemicals official signaled plans to ...

The US Environmental Protection Agency has reached a settlement with a US food packaging and processing company over failures to manage hazardous chemicals safely at an industrial site in ...

Dutch experts discussed a range of microbial and chemical safety topics in 2023 and rated them in terms of risk. To identify new food safety risks as early as possible, the Ministry of Health, Welfare ...