As South Africa marks National Child Protection Week from 29 May to 5 June, the Healthy Living Alliance (HEALA), urging the ...

You know microplastics are showing up in your take out containers and your junk food. But alarming fresh research indicates they’re present in pretty much anything you consume — and the effects of ...

More like discomfort food. A collection of four papers — published ... UPFs are more susceptible to microplastics than other foods due to their packaging and additives and the equipment used ...

Researchers identified specific metabolites in blood and urine that can accurately predict how much ultra-processed food a ...

This may be due to the increased amount of plastic that ultra-processed foods are exposed to during processing and packaging, according to the Food Processing Forum. Other recent studies have ...

New research has revealed a concerning link between microplastics, ultra-processed foods and mental health, according to a collection of four papers published Tuesday in the medical journal, Brain ...

"It may be about the additives. The way the food is prepared. It's related to the packaging and the marketing of that food. All these things come together to create this food environment that ...

The government announced last year that junk food adverts would be banned before ... affected by levies designed to reduce unsustainable packaging, which are set to increase its annual costs ...

Junk food is behind almost 20,000 premature deaths ... America require UPFs to have black octagonal stop signs on their packaging so consumers are aware, with proposals for them to be used in ...

"It may be about the additives. The way the food is prepared. It's related to the packaging and the marketing of that food. All these things come together to create this food environment that ...