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September 16/2024
Study: Eating domestic fish pays off
Press release 16 September 2024 from the Government's analysis, assessment and research activities (VN TEAS), Ministry for Agriculture and Forestry and Government Communications Department It is…
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August 26/2024
Study: national salmonella control protects consumers
If Finland's national salmonella control programme were abandoned, the prevalence of salmonella in the pork production chain would increase and the number of human cases would multiply. At the same…
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March 8/2022
New European Network for the Assessment of Risk from Chemicals
The EU is launching the Partnership for the Assessment of Risk from Chemicals (PARC) programme that will form a competence network of chemical risk assessment. The Finnish parties involved are the…
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February 5/2021
A European platform will pave the way forward towards a closer collaboration in food safety
Safe and nutritious food is key to sustaining life and promoting good health, yet the current EU food safety system falters when a need to quickly adapt to a continuously evolving food chain arises.…
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October 14/2020
Finnish children are not at risk from exposure to polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons through foods
The Finnish Food Authority has made an evaluation of the exposure of children to polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, or PAHs. PAHs are carcinogenic compounds formed during combustion. According to the…
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April 27/2020
Eating habits affect the intake of heavy metals
The national risk assessment by the Finnish Food Authority specifies the estimated amounts of exposure of consumers that were previously published by the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) at the…
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September 18/2019
Food safety risks on the agenda of the EFSA meeting in Helsinki
During the meeting, the Finnish Food Authority will present its risk assessment activities to the Advisory Forum of the European Food Safety Authority EFSA. Comprehensive discussions will be held on…
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September 17/2019
A warm refrigerator allows the listeria to grow
Listeriosis caused by the Listeria bacterium ( Listeria monocytogenes ) is more common in Finland than in the rest of the world. Overall, the incidences of listeriosis have been on the rise in…
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June 19/2019
Dogs imported into Finland may bring along new infectious diseases
The number of dogs imported into Finland has increased in the recent years. The import of dogs from countries with a different disease situation than Finland can contribute to the spread of diseases…
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May 15/2019
Salmonella occurring at low levels in the Finnish food chain
Finnish poultry causes only a very small percentage of all salmonella infections in Finland whereas Finnish beef may cause the highest percentage of salmonella infections. Imported meat, on the other…
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March 20/2019
Pig farms’ own practices affect the resistance to antibiotics in the pork production chain
Pig farms’ own treatment practices and protective measures against pathogens play a key role in combating antimicrobial resistance in the pork production chain. This is shown by the joint study by the…
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February 13/2019
Plant food supplements are mostly safe
Most plant food supplements are safe. Problems can be caused when plant food supplements are used simultaneously with medication, especially when using several plant food supplements or medicines.…
Plant food supplements are mostly safe
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