This July, the INC has launched the Global Cashew Council’s corporate website. The site has been designed to attract all publics, with specific sections for consumers and health and industry professionals.

The INC participated in the 2019 China International Tree Nuts Conference, from August 5 – 7, in Zhengzhou, Henan Province, China. This event, organized by the China Chamber of Commerce (CFNA), is an annual meeting of over 500 participants from the Chinese nut industry and abroad, representing all tree nuts and some dried fruits. The INC was represented by Mr. Michael Waring, INC Chairman; Mr. Ashok Krishen, First Vice Chairman and Chairman of the Global Cashew Council; Mr. Pino Calcagni, Second Vice Chairman and Chairman of the Scientific and Government Affairs Committee and the Statistics Committee; and Mrs. Goretti Guasch, INC Executive Director.

AENOR, the Spanish standardization body responsible for the publication of the National Standards UNE, has certified an environmental product declaration on Spanish almond kernels, according to the Standard UNE-EN-ISO 14025.

In April 2019, the United Arab Emirates, Kingdom of Bahrain, State of Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and Yemen notified the Word Trade Organization of the amendments on the Gulf Draft Technical Regulation for "Contaminants and toxins in food and feed".

On June 26, 2019, the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) published the 2017 European Union Report on Pesticide Residues in Food, finding that 95.9% of the samples analyzed (88,247 samples) fell within legal limits; around 54.1% were free of any quantifiable residues.

The European Commission published a report that describes the outcome of an audit carried out in Turkey, November 19-29, 2018, with the aim of assessing if the systems in place to control aflatoxin contamination in dried figs intended for export to the European Union (EU) are adequate.

The European Commission published the Commission Regulation (EU) 2019/1176 of 10 July 2019 amending Annexes II, III and V to Regulation (EC) No 396/2005 of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards maximum residue levels for 2,5-dichlorobenzoic acid methylester, mandipropamid and profoxydim in or on certain products.

On July 23, 2019, the European Union published the Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2019/1249 of 22 July 2019 amending Annex I to Regulation (EC) No 669/2009 implementing Regulation (EC) No 882/2004 of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards the increased level of official controls on imports of certain feed and food of non-animal origin.

The European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) has published the Reasoned Opinion on the Modification of the existing maximum residue levels for flonicamid in strawberries and other berries.

The European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) has published a statement on the available outcomes of the human health assessment in the context of the pesticides peer review for the renewal of approval of the active substance chlorpyrifos-methyl.