Health authorities across the world, including the European Food Safety Authority, have concluded that Red Bull Energy Drink is safe to consume, which is why it is available in more than 171 countries including every state of the European Union.
A recent scientific review issued by the European Food Safety Authority(EFSA) of more than 20 separate research studies found that aspartame, one of the most common artificial sweeteners, causes a range of illnesses including birth defects and cancer.
On request from the Commission, the European Food Safety Authority issued a scientific opinion on 5 April 2017 on the safety and suitability for use by infants of follow-on formulae with a protein content of at least 1,6 g/100 kcal(4).
However, the European Food Safety Authority and the U.S. Food and Nutrition Board have decided that there is insufficient scientific data from human intervention trials to set a precise figure for a tolerable upper intake level(UL) of isolated beta-carotene(46, 1).
Authorisation is based on the health assessments made by the EU Commission's Scientific Committee on Food(SCF), which was responsible until 2003, and the European Food Safety Authority(EFSA) which has held responsibility ever since(see FAQ on the health assessment below).
Based on the assumption that a person eats one chocolate piece per day, this translates into only a very small additional intake on top of the daily intake of aromatic mineral oil hydrocarbons via foods estimated by the European Food Safety Authority(EFSA 2012).
EFSA re-confirms the safety of aspartame and dismisses claims made by the Ramazzini InstituteISA welcomes two opinions published by the European Food Safety Authority(EFSA) today re-confirming the safety of the low-calorie sweetener aspartame, rejecting claims by the Ramazzini Institute(Italy) alleging that aspartame was unsafe.
According to the European Food Safety Authority(EFSA)'s recent recommendations, thermal contaminants(2MCPD, 3MCPD, GE) are present in a wide range of foods and found in larger quantities in vegetable oils subjected to high temperatures during food processing.
They point out that a study from the European Food Safety Authority(EFSA) found that energy drinks contribute to 43% of total caffeine intake in children, 13% in adolescents and 8% in adults- numbers that are a cause for concern.
In response to the latest findings, Stephen Pagani, a spokesman for the European Food Safety Authority(EFSA) in Parma, Italy, says that, as with all new data, the agency“will decide in due course whether they should be brought to the attention of panel experts for review”.
The US Environmental Protection Agency said in a 2017 draft risk assessment that the herbicide"is not likely to be carcinogenic to humans," while the European Food Safety Authority maintains a similar stance.
Regarding animal testing, the European Food Safety Authority(EFSA) recently has stated,“If the GM plant and derived food and feed have been assessed as compositionally not different from its comparator except for the introduced trait(s), no further studies to demonstrate nutritional equivalence are required.”.
Work to examine this warning signal regarding SDHI fungicides has been continuing since January 2019 in three areas: the definition and funding of specific research, the detection by existing surveillance schemes of possible health effects that may be observed in the field, and lastly exchanges with research organisations and health agencies tasked with assessing these substances, in particular the European Food Safety Authority(EFSA).
The magazine also includes an overview that provides some historical context to the development of GM, an article on how GM food is regulated, an outline of the work of the European Food Safety Authority panel on GM, a map showing the extent of GM cultivation worldwide and a summary of what the FSA has learned by discussing the issue with the public.
Significantly, following a long but finally successful legal battle to force Monsanto to release the details of its own study of the safety of its own NK603 maize(corn), Seralini and colleagues reproduced a 2004 Monsanto study published in the same journal and used by the European Food Safety Authority(EFSA) for its 2009 positive evaluation of NK603.
The European Food Safety Authority evaluated the safety of iron tartrate, which is a complexation product of sodium tartrate and iron(III) chloride, as a food additive and in its opinion(4) of 9 December 2014 concluded that, taking into account toxicological data and the conservative assumptions included in the exposure assessment, there is no safety concern for its use as an anti-caking agent in salt and its substitutes at the level of use proposed.
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