Wheat Analysis News
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Towards more reliable measurements of pesticides in wheat
To ensure that food can safely be consumed, EU laws set limits for pesticides in food, called Maximum Residue Limits. Consequently, enforcement laboratories regularly measure the pesticide present in food to check that those limits are respected. If exceeded, food products are declared unfit for consumption. But measuring pesticide residues remains challenging. Currently, the maximum residue ...
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Wheat Pesticide Review and Ethical Consumer Choices Survey
If you’ve been following news on the wheat pesticide story, this week the European Food Safety Authority has announced that it will be officially reviewing the risks of the pesticide gyphosphate and will consider new research which suggests that it is ‘probably carcinogenic’. The EFSA is reviewing and risk-assessing the substance which is currently facing pressures from The Soil ...
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Wheat Initiative launches its Strategic Research Agenda
To meet the expected 60% raise in demand for wheat by 2050, coordination of research and significant investments are needed to increase wheat sustainable production globally. The Wheat Initiative presented today its Strategic Research Agenda (SRA) to the G20 Agricultural Chief Scientists gathered in Turkey. Wheat is a staple food worldwide and provides 20% of all calories and protein, both in ...
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Rising heat hits Indian wheat crop
Researchers in the UK have established a link between changing climate and agriculture that could have significant consequences for food supplies in South Asia. They have found evidence of a relationship between rising average temperatures in India and reduced wheat production, which was increasing until about a decade ago but has now stopped. The researchers, Dr John Duncan, Dr Jadu Dash and ...
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High temperatures `make wheat old before its time`
Global warming can cause premature ageing in wheat, according to computer modelling studies of the crop's response to growing conditions in northern India. The effects of warming on wheat growth and grain size are far worse than previous crop models indicated, David Lobell, assistant professor in environmental earth system science at Stanford University, United States, and colleagues wrote in ...
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