PART I: SHORT CUTSLong-term studies on ammonium sulphate
Dietary fibre and colorectal cancer
Eat up your fibre for a healthy heart
Don’t mix your vegetables
Does an apple a day keep cancer at bay?
Go wild with the artichoke and stay young at heart?
The meat may be cured but not the high blood pressure
Soy consumption and prostate cancer risk in men
Not a great New Year for soy phytoestrogens
… health benefits for phytoestrogens questioned
… soy diet may aggravate heart disease
… the phytoestrogen, genistein, may not protect against bone fracture
Safety testing of genistein
Dairy products, calcium and prostate cancer
Pay attention – fish oil improves your mood
Hearty effects of fish oil
Cooking with palm oil may harm the heart
Diacylglycerol (DAG) – a useful fat substitute?
Make mine a polyphenol-enriched white wine (or red) please
Is the coffee pot on?
Or are you brewing tea?
Dietary antioxidants protect against age-related blindness
Microencapsulating the antioxidant activity of γ-oryzanol, a component of rice bran extract
The anti-carcinogenicity of sulforaphane
Vitamin A supplementation for children
Silicon – beauty skin deep
Heme iron, zinc and upper digestive tract cancer
Manganese in drinking water impairs intellectual function
Subchronic studies on cyadox and olaquindox
Atrazine affects brain development in mice
Co-carcinogenic effect of hexachlorobenzene (HCB) in mammary tissue
Updated REPs database to establish TEFs for dioxin-like compounds
Occupational exposure to PCBs may be bad for the brain and skin
Sorry, you may have to speak up for styrene workers
Styrene not associated with ischemic heart disease
Occupational methyl methacrylate exposure – no convincing link with cancer
Cancer in textile workers
Respiratory effects of water-soluble metal working fluids
Norbornene fluoroalcohol (NBFOH)
Further low-dose effects of bisphenol A
Don’t wash his socks (with N,N-dimethyl-n-dodecylamine)!
Di-2-ethylhexyl phthalate metabolism following intravenous exposure
Testing strategies for the genotoxicity of hair dyes
Improving the performance of the local lymph node assay?
Compilation of LLNA test results on over 200 compounds PART II: WORLD NEWSEUROPEAN UNIONEFSA safety evaluation of flavourings
Lupin reviewed by EFSA
Novel rapeseed and maize-germ oils approved by EFSA
Salmon blush as EFSA reveal their astaxanthin beauty tip!
EFSA evaluates consumer safety from antimicrobials applied to poultry carcasses
EFSA issues pesticide risk assessments on fosetyl, triclopyr and trinexapac
EU RARs on 2,4,4-trimethylpentene, trisodium nitrilotriacetate and perchloroethylene
REACHing still further
Updated no-longer polymer list from the ECB UNITED KINGDOMFSA surveys heavy metals and PAHs in dietary supplements
ACP – provisional approval given to aminopyralid but not proquinazid
Nanomaterials - the COT, COC and COM agree on a joint statement
COM and COC joint statement on target organ mutagenicity data in carcinogen risk assessment UNITED STATESQualified health claims for lutein esters considered by FDA
CERHR draft reports on genistein and soy formula
Pesticide petitions filed with the EPA
EPA risk assessments on pesticides
OEHHA proposes Public Health Goals for cis- and trans-1,2-dichloroethylene, 1,1,1-trichloroethane and 1,1,2-trichloroethane
Child specific reference doses developed by OEHHA for six chemicals
NIOSH recommended occupational exposure limits for titanium dioxide
EPA IRIS review of n-hexane
EPA nanotechnology white paper
Cosmetic Ingredient Review announcements OTHER AUTHORITATIVE BODIESRisk assessment of nutrients by FAO/WHO
CICAD on 2-butoxyethanol
Revised OECD Test Guideline on repeated dose inhalation toxicity
RIVM derives environmental risk limits
Human exposure modelling from IPCS PART III: LEGISLATIONEUROPEAN UNIONCommission Regulation on veterinary medicinal products in foodstuffs of animal origin
Feed additive authorisations given in new Commission Regulation
Plant protection products get the OK
EC Directive further restricts phthalates in toys and childcare articles UNITED KINGDOMFood-contact ceramic articles
Pesticides – maximum residue levels
Animal feeds
Cosmetics UNITED STATESFDA GRAS status letters on poultry protein and quillaia
Food labelling claim for barley products allowed by FDA
Pesticide tolerances established by EPA
Proposed EPA pesticide tolerances
EPA action on disinfectants in drinking water
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