The Ministry of Agricultural, Food and Forestry Policies (MIPAAF) of Italy will launch a working group on the hazelnut sector, once the current COVID-19 situation is over.

On March 30, 2020, the EU Council adopted a decision on the conclusion of the EU-Vietnam Free Trade Agreement.

On March 26, 2020, the European Commission published the Final Report of an audit carried out in the United States, from 7 to 15 October 2019, in order to assess the control system in place to control aflatoxin contamination in peanuts intended for export to the European Union (EU).

The European Commission notified the World Trade Organization of the Draft Commission Implementing Regulation concerning the non-renewal of approval of the active substance fenamiphos, in accordance with Regulation (EC) No 1107/2009 of the European Parliament and of the Council concerning the placing of plant protection products on the market, and amending the Annex to Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) No 540/2011.

The report of the Standing Committee of the Section ‘Phytopharmaceuticals’, held on February 17-18, 2020, has been published (see previous post).

A recent study, published in the journal Plants, examined the activity of polyphenol-rich extracts of natural shelled pistachios kernels on herpes simplex virus type 1 (HSV-1) replication.

Cardiorespiratory fitness (CRF) is a health-related component of physical fitness defined as the ability of the circulatory, respiratory, and muscular systems to supply oxygen during sustained physical activity.

A new study, recently published in the Journal of the American Heart Association, evaluated the association of changes in consumption of total and specific types of nuts and the subsequent risk of incident cardiovascular disease (CVD) in US men and women.

This study, recently published in the European Journal of Clinical Nutrition, examined the association of legume and nut consumption with depression, anxiety and psychological distress in Iranian adults.