The International Olive Council (IOC) has informed the EU that the threshold for safely consuming the potentially carcinogenic process contaminant 3-monochloropropane diol ester (3-MCPDE) is 1.25mg/kg.

German chemicals firm Bayer AG has promised to invest US$5.6bn in weed killer research as it fights to repair its reputation in the wake of three multi-million dollar verdicts against it linking its Roundup glyphosate pesticide with cancer.

German life sciences company Bayer AG has asked California’s Court of Appeal to throw out a verdict ordering it to pay US$78M to a school groundskeeper who claimed the company's weed killers gave him cancer, Reuters reported on 24 April.

China’s rejection of canola imports from Canada’s Richardson International has spread to shipments from all Canadian firms, according to the Canola Council of Canada (CCC).

Italian oil and gas firm Eni and the national waste vegetable oil and animal fats consortium, RenOils, will be working together to promote the recovery of used vegetable oils, the two institutions announced in a press release on 14 February.

Argentina and the EU have reached an agreement to end their long-running trade dispute over exports of biodiesel from the South American country to the bloc, the Argentine Ministry of Foreign Affairs said on 30 January.