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The European Food Safety Authority carried out an EU survey before and after some countries updated their advice on how often to eat fish and seafood that may contain traces of mercury. It found important differences across countries and between the general population and pregnant women.
Parliament has called on the European Commission to recognise poverty as a violation of human dignity. It also proposed that more attention should be paid to fighting child poverty, which affects one in four European children, and promoting policies that protect labour rights and fair wages.
The European Commission has announced the winners of the Juvenes translatores school translation contest – one from each EU country. This year saw a record 3004 participants from 716 schools, translating in 155 different language combinations out of the 552 available.
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