The Latest Breaking News from Anses

Adopted by the European Union in 2006, the REACH regulation (Registration, Evaluation, Authorisation and Restriction of Chemicals) governs the manufacture and use of chemical substances in Europe. Despite its importance, REACH has often been criticised for being slow and complex. These concerns prompted calls for reform as part of the…

France’s food safety agency has put forward a proposal that would see meat, dairy and egg produce labelled with colour-coded scores that rate how well the goods respect animal welfare legislation.

Toxic Ostreopsis attacks swimmers’ lungs and can cause severe flu-like symptoms

France will continue to export grain to countries in North Africa after the food safety watchdog agreed to roll back a planned ban of phosphine, an insecticide that certain countries require to be used to treat grain before it is offloaded. The agency also announced a ban on a popular…

France’s government is looking for a way around an impending ban imposed by its own health watchdog on the insecticide phosphine so that it can carry on exporting wheat to North Africa.

France’s food safety authority says mass testing of drinking water has revealed traces of a banned pesticide in 50 percent of samples.

Prosecutors in Paris have opened a criminal investigation into allegations that pollution in the capital's metro system has been deliberately under-reported and is putting travellers' lives at risk.

Prosecutors in Paris have opened a criminal investigation into allegations that pollution in the capital's metro system is putting travellers' lives at risk, an NGO and authorities said on Wednesday.

France’s food safety authority Anses has moved to ban S-metolachlor, a common herbicide used by cereal farmers, because of significant groundwater pollution. The product joins an increasingly growing list of chemicals no longer allowed in French agriculture.