For how we live.
A draft guidance published 9 October would spare mid-sized retail food establishments and restaurants from all Food Traceability Rule requirements. Comments close 23 November; a public meeting follows on 6 November.
An order effective 25 September lets manufacturers use inactive baker's yeast to add vitamin D2 to cereals, grain products, milk and milk products, at the same limits already set for vitamin D2 mushroom powder.
A meta-analysis of 247 studies across 41 countries pooled a 15.3% detection rate, rising to 38% in fish and seafood markets and running highest across South-East Asia.
US regulators class MSG as generally recognised as safe, and when the symptoms are tested under blinded conditions they largely disappear. The clearest signal is a nocebo effect, not the additive.
Surveys have flagged lead, cadmium and arsenic in some powders, but a risk assessment of those same numbers found typical intakes stayed below the thresholds used to judge harm.
The reheating is not the hazard. Cooked rice left to cool slowly at room temperature is, because a spore-forming bacterium can build a heat-stable toxin that a second heating will not undo.
Two controlled studies compared vitamins in fresh and frozen fruit and vegetables. Frozen matched fresh in most cases and sometimes beat it, especially against fresh produce that had spent a few days in the fridge.
Air-popped popcorn is a whole grain, high in fibre and low in fat — a legitimately good snack. What turns it unhealthy is butter, oil, salt and portion size, not the corn itself.
A systematic review of human trials found the evidence weak and inconsistent. Where MSG seemed to trigger headaches, it was given in large doses dissolved in water without food, in studies that were not properly blinded.
The warning that olive oil's low smoke point makes it unsafe to fry with is largely wrong. Oxidative stability, not smoke point, is what matters, and olive oil is among the more heat-resistant common oils.
Two laboratory studies that dropped food onto contaminated surfaces found bacteria transfer within a second. How much moves depends far more on the food and the surface than on the count of five.
High-heat cooking makes compounds that damage DNA in the lab — heterocyclic amines, PAHs and acrylamide. The catch is that human diet studies have mostly failed to find a consistent cancer link.
Iron does leach from a cast-iron pan into food, and randomised trials in iron-deficient populations found it raised haemoglobin. The effect depends on what you cook, and means little for people who are iron-replete.
The agency revoked Orange B and proposed dropping Citrus Red No. 2 because neither has been used in decades. It said the safety of synthetic colours is outside the scope of these orders.
Exposure is real and universal. One human study links plastics in artery plaque to worse outcomes. No causal harm is established, and the measurements are still maturing.
Europe cut its safe intake for BPA by orders of magnitude and banned it in food packaging. US regulators disagree, and the substitutes are less studied.
Particles turn up across the food supply, and plastic tea bags shed billions per cup. The counts are real; whether these amounts affect health is unestablished.
A 2024 imaging method found roughly a quarter-million plastic particles per litre of bottled water, most of them nanoplastics — far more than older counts, and mostly unstudied.
Microwaving food in some plastic containers releases far more particles than cold storage. What that means for health is still an open question of dose.
An interim report in NEJM Evidence links the parasitic outbreak to iceberg lettuce and one restaurant chain, with cases spread across most of the state.
Five grams a week is the top of a wide range in one 2020 analysis. A mechanistic model put the mass humans actually ingest at micrograms, not grams.
The dye is being pulled under a 1958 law that bans any additive found to cause cancer in animals, at any dose. FDA's own review calls the rat finding of limited relevance to people.
Products reached 99 countries before recalls began. WHO's first Disease Outbreak News report on the event lists 144 suspected and confirmed illnesses and calls the risk moderate.