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Updated - Pesticide in food: residue adherence rates above 97% but mixtures of pollutants may have long-term health consequences (2014-05-29)

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EFSA Scientific Colloquium N°21: Harmonisation of human and ecological risk assessment of combined exposure to multiple chemicals. This colloquium will bring together the human health and the ecological scientific communities to discuss the respective methodologies for risk assessment of multiple chemicals. This will allow the identification of opportunities and challenges for the harmonisation of these approaches. In addition, the discussions will inform the future activity of the Scientific Committee of EFSA in this area.

The Colloquium will be held in Edinburgh, UK. The meeting will start at 08:30 on 11th September 2014 and will end at 13:30 on 12th September 2014. Further details on the venue and logistics will be communicated to participants upon confirmation of selection. For more http://www.efsa.europa.eu/en/events/event/140911.htm

Over 97% of samples tested in the latest Europe-wide monitoring programme of pesticides in food contain residue levels that fall within permissible limits, says the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA). These results are part of the fifth annual report on pesticide residues in food in 27 EU Member States, Norway and Iceland. The report by EFSA’s Pesticide Unit is based on the analysis of more than 79,000 food samples carried out by national food authorities in 2011.
But New research in The FASEB Journal suggests that lifelong exposure to very low levels of food contaminants leads to metabolic diseases.
According to a new research report published in the September 2013 issue of The FASEB Journal, what you are eating and doing may not be the problem, but what's in what you are eating could be the culprit.
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"This study adds evidences for rethinking the way of addressing risk assessment especially when considering that the human population is widely exposed to low levels of thousands of chemicals, and that the health impact of realistic mixtures of pollutants will have to be tested as well," said Brigitte Le Magueresse-Battistoni, a researcher involved in the work from the French National Institute of Health and Medical Research (INSERM). "Indeed, one pollutant could have a different effect when in mixture with other pollutants. Thus, our study may have strong implications in terms of recommendations for food security. Our data also bring new light to the understanding of the impact of environmental food contaminants in the development of metabolic diseases."

This study fuels the concept that pollutants may contribute to the current prevalence of chronic diseases including metabolic diseases and diabetes.

"This report that confirms something we've known for a long time: pollution is bad for us," said Gerald Weissmann, M.D., Editor-in-Chief of The FASEB Journal. "But, what's equally important, it shows that evaluating food contaminants and pollutants on an individual basis may be too simplistic. We can see that when "safe" levels of contaminants and pollutants act together, they have significant impact on public health."

For more information
Safe levels of environmental pollution may have long-term health consequences

EFSA - Pesticide residue adherence rates above 97% for third consecutive year

FASEB - Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology

INSERM - Institut national de la santé et de la recherche médicale

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