The FDA has rejected a legal petition demanding it set limits on Pfas "forever chemicals" in food. Pfas is a class of at least 16,000 compounds most frequently used to make products water-, stain- and grease-resistant. They have been linked to cancer, birth defects, decreased immunity, high cholesterol, kidney disease and a range of other serious health problems.
On July 3, 2026, Frutas y Hortalizas del Sur S.A. of San Carlos, Chile, recalled frozen GreenWise Organic IQF Blueberries in 10-ounce packages after they were linked to an outbreak of E. coli O145:H28. Twelve people across Florida and Georgia have been confirmed sick, and four of them have been hospitalized. The recalled berries went to Publix stores in Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee and Virginia.
A Chilean grower-packer recalled its ten-ounce bags of GreenWise Organic frozen blueberries on July 3rd after they tested positive for E. coli O145:H28. The berries went to Publix stores in eight states: Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, and Virginia. 12 people got sick between May 11th and June 5th.
Luigi Mariani and Aldo Ferrero write in the June 2026 issue of Scientific Reports that productivity, land use efficiency and their influence on future land demand must be taken into account when discussing the effects of agriculture on climate and consumer well-being. In the age of disinformation, conscious food literacy can lead to better health, climate, and public trust.
The European Parliament's recent decision to authorize the commercialization of plants derived from New Genomic Techniques (NGTs) marks a turning point for European agriculture. Peasant organizations such as Confédération Paysanne in France, part of the European Coordination Via Campesina (ECVC), are concerned about the lack of traceability and detection methods and the shift toward patents on life.
Cassandra Rauert is an environmental chemist at the University of Queensland, in Australia. She has built a plastic-free lab to study human exposure to microplastics in order to better understand the effects of plastic pollution on the human body. She found that the current analytical techniques used for detecting plastic in human blood are vulnerable to contamination from the lab environment.
Mary Atemo is a farmer in Kisumu West County, Kenya. She has been working with researchers from icipe for 16 years. They introduced her to push-pull farming, a simple but powerful intercropping strategy that increases crop diversity and reduces crop losses. Striga weed can reduce maize yields by 30 to 100%. Stem borers destroyed Mary's harvest. Mary is disabled and uses a crutch to move around her farm.
Bumblebees collect up to seven times more heavy metals in their pollen than honeybees. Bumblebees also accumulate three times higher concentrations of heavy metals on their bodies. The research was conducted at the University of Cambridge's Department of Zoology and funded by the Royal Entomological Society.
Thomas Foods International has filed a proposal for an extension of its facility at Pallamana. The company wants to build a new composting facility to the north of its three-year-old meat processing plant. The lagoon and infrastructure would be capable of processing 40,000 tonnes of organic material per year. Neighbours have until next Tuesday, July 14 to provide feedback on the proposal.
According to BNP Paribus, Oatley, Hershey, Flowers, Kraft Heinz, Mondelez, Conagra, General Mills, Campbell, J.M. Smucker., McCormick., Hormel, Smithfield 50-60% of their products are ultra-processed (Nova 4). Nova 1 products outsell Nova 4 by 7%.
The FDA has rejected a legal petition demanding it set limits on Pfas "forever chemicals" in food. Pfas is a class of at least 16,000 compounds most frequently used to make products water-, stain- and grease-resistant. They have been linked to cancer, birth defects, decreased immunity, high cholesterol, kidney disease and a range of other serious health problems.
On July 3, 2026, Frutas y Hortalizas del Sur S.A. of San Carlos, Chile, recalled frozen GreenWise Organic IQF Blueberries in 10-ounce packages after they were linked to an outbreak of E. coli O145:H28. Twelve people across Florida and Georgia have been confirmed sick, and four of them have been hospitalized. The recalled berries went to Publix stores in Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee and Virginia.
A Chilean grower-packer recalled its ten-ounce bags of GreenWise Organic frozen blueberries on July 3rd after they tested positive for E. coli O145:H28. The berries went to Publix stores in eight states: Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, and Virginia. 12 people got sick between May 11th and June 5th.
Luigi Mariani and Aldo Ferrero write in the June 2026 issue of Scientific Reports that productivity, land use efficiency and their influence on future land demand must be taken into account when discussing the effects of agriculture on climate and consumer well-being. In the age of disinformation, conscious food literacy can lead to better health, climate, and public trust.
The European Parliament's recent decision to authorize the commercialization of plants derived from New Genomic Techniques (NGTs) marks a turning point for European agriculture. Peasant organizations such as Confédération Paysanne in France, part of the European Coordination Via Campesina (ECVC), are concerned about the lack of traceability and detection methods and the shift toward patents on life.
Cassandra Rauert is an environmental chemist at the University of Queensland, in Australia. She has built a plastic-free lab to study human exposure to microplastics in order to better understand the effects of plastic pollution on the human body. She found that the current analytical techniques used for detecting plastic in human blood are vulnerable to contamination from the lab environment.
Mary Atemo is a farmer in Kisumu West County, Kenya. She has been working with researchers from icipe for 16 years. They introduced her to push-pull farming, a simple but powerful intercropping strategy that increases crop diversity and reduces crop losses. Striga weed can reduce maize yields by 30 to 100%. Stem borers destroyed Mary's harvest. Mary is disabled and uses a crutch to move around her farm.
Bumblebees collect up to seven times more heavy metals in their pollen than honeybees. Bumblebees also accumulate three times higher concentrations of heavy metals on their bodies. The research was conducted at the University of Cambridge's Department of Zoology and funded by the Royal Entomological Society.
Thomas Foods International has filed a proposal for an extension of its facility at Pallamana. The company wants to build a new composting facility to the north of its three-year-old meat processing plant. The lagoon and infrastructure would be capable of processing 40,000 tonnes of organic material per year. Neighbours have until next Tuesday, July 14 to provide feedback on the proposal.
According to BNP Paribus, Oatley, Hershey, Flowers, Kraft Heinz, Mondelez, Conagra, General Mills, Campbell, J.M. Smucker., McCormick., Hormel, Smithfield 50-60% of their products are ultra-processed (Nova 4). Nova 1 products outsell Nova 4 by 7%.