The European Commission adopted, on Friday 3 March, in the context of Europe’s Beating Cancer Plan, an implementing regulation amending Regulation EC/1881/2006 in order to lower the maximum permitted levels for food products contributing to arsenic exposure.
The decision follows the publication of an opinion by the European Food Safety Authority’s (EFSA) Scientific Panel on Contaminants in the Food Chain (CONTAM), which concluded that the 2015 provisional tolerable weekly intake of...