From The Government of Canada: Canada’s food supply is increasingly global in nature and many Canadians are seeking clearer information about the foods they buy. Recognizing this, the Government of Canada is taking action to improve the labelling information on food products and to help Canadians make better purchasing decisions. Following the launch of the […]
From the Malaysian Star: THE annual meeting of the Codex Committee on Food Labelling (CCFL) was held in Ottawa during the first week of May. Hosted by the government of Canada, the 36th meeting of CCFL was attended by close to 300 delegates representing 72 member countries, one Member Organization, European Community and 27 international […]
From FoodNavigator.com: Six flavouring agents used in a variety of foods are cleared by Europe’s risk assessor but industry is still awaiting the outcome for seven other agents evaluated at the same time… Following evaluations of 13 aliphatic secondary alcohols, ketones and related esters, a scientific panel at the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) concluded […]
From the EPA – two final rules for pesticide tolerances. First: Fluopicolide: This regulation establishes tolerances for residues of fluopicolide in or on vegetable, root, subgroup 1A, except sugar beet and carrot; vegetable, leaves of root and tuber, group 2; vegetable, bulb, group 3-07; and Brassica, head and stem, subgroup 5A. Interregional Research Project Number […]
From the FDA – Food Labeling: Health Claims; Dietary Noncariogenic Carbohydrate Sweeteners and Dental Caries – Final Rule: The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is adopting as a final rule, without change, the provisions of the interim final rule that amended the regulation authorizing a health claim on noncariogenic carbohydrate sweeteners and dental caries, i.e., […]
From the EPA: In accordance with section 6(f)(1) of the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA), as amended, EPA is issuing a notice of receipt of requests by the registrant to amend their registrations to terminate certain uses of products containing the pesticide disulfoton. The request would terminate disulfoton use in or on barley […]
Another important notice from the EPA: “Environmental Hazard General Labeling Statements on Outdoor Residential Use Products.” This PR Notice was issued by the Agency on May 9, 2008 and is identified as PR Notice 2008-1. PR Notices are issued by the Office of Pesticide Programs (OPP) to inform pesticide registrants and other interested persons about […]
From the EPA: EPA is announcing a public comment period for the external review draft document titled, “Toxicological Review of Carbon Tetrachloride: In Support of Summary Information on the Integrated Risk Information System (IRIS)” (EPA/635/R-08/008A). The EPA intends to consider comments and recommendations from the public and the expert panel meeting, which will be scheduled […]
From the EPA – Benfluralin, Carbaryl, Diazinon, Dicrotophos, Fluometuron, Formetanate Hydrochloride, Glyphosate, Metolachlor, Napropamide, Norflurazon, Pyrazon, and Tau-Fluvalinate; Proposed Tolerance Actions: EPA is proposing to revoke certain tolerances for the herbicides benfluralin and napropamide and the insecticides carbaryl and diazinon. Also, EPA is proposing to modify certain tolerances for the herbicides fluometuron, glyphosate, norflurazon, and […]
From Canada’s Minister of the Environment: 1. Part 1 of the Domestic Substances List (see footnote 1) is amended by adding the following in numerical order: 51382-28-6 N-P 67423-05-6 N 128635-36-9 N-P 412041-84-0 N-P 884334-68-3 N-P 951775-27-2 N-P 2. Part 3 of the List is amended by adding the following in numerical order: 15828-6 N-P […]