World Health Organization (WHO) advice on safe daily aspartame consumption remained unchanged following the release of two independent reviews looking into the sweetener.
A study that links the sweetener sucralose to cancer has been dismissed by the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA), for failing to provide the data to support its conclusions.
Tighter controls on ‘junk food’ advertising was one of the measures demanded by Cancer Research UK on World Obesity Day (October 11), after revealing 1.66M children have started secondary school overweight or obese in the past 10 years.
Food manufacturers are failing to provide consumers with healthy and environmentally-friendly sandwich options, according to healthy eating organisation Eating Better.
The Food Standards Agency (FSA) has defended the controversial chemical bisphenol A (BPA) after Campbell’s Soup pledged to phase out its use in all cans due to consumers' safety concerns.
Eating processed meat, including bacon and sausages, has been linked to a 10% increase in the risk of pancreatic cancer, according to new research from Sweden.
Eating the right foods from an early age could significantly reduce the risk of developing certain cancers, according to food bioscientists.However,...
Concerns have been raised about the safety of a smoke flavouring used in food manufacture, following evaluation by the European Food Safety Authority...
Evidence is mounting that the consumption of botanicals may delay the onset of cancer, providing a vast opportunity for food manufacturers to market...
The final results of a study conducted by the Italian Ramazzini Foundation, which claimed to have identified a link between aspartame - a widely used...
