date:Nov 23, 2018
The European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) has confirmed previous assessments that dietary exposure to dioxins and dioxin-like Polychlorinated Biphenyls (PCBs) environmental pollutants present at low levels in food and feed is a health concern. Data from European countries indicate an exceedance of EFSAs new tolerable intake level across all age groups with the main contributors to average dietary exposure for most age groups in European countries being fish (in particular fatty fish), cheese a