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4 April 2017 | By EAWAG: Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology
Small watercourses are contaminated with large numbers of herbicides, fungicides and insecticides.
13 March 2017 | By Marie Haga | The Crop Trust
New Food speaks exclusively to Marie Haga from The Crop Trust to discuss the sheer scale of the global food security challenge we face...
In this whitepaper, Waters discuss how to develop a sensitive LC-MS/MS method for the robust analysis of highly polar pesticides in food commodities without the need of derivatization...
1 November 2016 | By EFSA
Ninety-seven per cent of food samples collected in the European Union are free of pesticide residues or contain traces that are within legal limits...
14 September 2016 | By Roy Manuell, Digital Content Producer
An RSPB report entitled the State of Nature report has announced that one in 10 UK species face extinction due to an intensification of farming practices...
9 September 2016 | By Earlham Institute
The European Research Council (ERC), is to award a €1.5m Starting Grant for the investigation into the immune system of crops...
In this issue: Pesticide Residues; Refrigeration; Health & Nutrition; Extrusion; Optical Sorting; Meat Processing; Automation; Sustainability; Regulation; and much more...
26 April 2016 | By Torsten Pöppelbaum, Scientific Expert, NSF
The last 50 years have seen a marked increase in consumer awareness and concern about the quality and safety of food, including the effects of pesticides used in crop production and home gardens. Fortunately, analytical test methods have also progressed. Analysis has advanced from needing several days to semi-quantitatively measure…
7 March 2016 | By Victoria White
New pesticides guidance has been finalised that harmonises the way terrestrial field dissipation studies are conducted in different regions of the world...
3 March 2016 | By Victoria White
#Efsa4Bees will contain essential information about EFSA’s project on the risk assessment of multiple stressors in bees as well as other relevant work in areas such as pesticides...
5 February 2016 | By Victoria White
Aldi Süd is the first big retailer in Europe to ban eight bee-harming pesticides from domestic fruits and vegetables produced for their markets...
27 January 2016 | By Victoria White
EFSA and its partners have developed a software tool for carrying out exposure assessments of multiple pesticides...
8 December 2015 | By New Food
In this exclusive video interview, John discusses new innovations at Agilent, shares his insights into the key challenges facing the food industry, and explains the impact that Agilent has had on the food industry...
17 April 2015 | By Victoria White
A new EFSA report aims to give the public a balanced view of the findings of annual EU-wide monitoring of levels of chemicals in food...
Food safety laboratories involved in pesticide residue monitoring typically employ a multi-residue LC-MS/MS method for the quantification of an ever increasing list of target pesticides. In this study we present two methods developed for the analysis of a wide range of polar pesticides using the Shimadzu LCMS-8050...
