What to know: After a big buildup about a press conference on banning artificial food dyes, the country’s top food leaders offered little in the way of how they would do so.

On a stage with mothers and children behind them, Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Food and Drug Administration Commissioner Marty Maraky repeated what they said the day before. They promised to get petroleum-based dyes out of foods but did not offer any information about how they plan to achieve that goal.

Several baby food manufacturers are failing to meet California’s strict lead limits under Proposition 65, a Reuters investigation published April 16 has found.

The report, based on 1,757 test results from nine manufacturers, found 102 products exceeding the state’s maximum allowable dose of 0.5 micrograms of lead per day.

Researchers have reported the food attributable portions of disease for four important pathogens in the United Kingdom.

Findings will be used to support future Food Standards Agency (FSA) studies estimating the burden of foodborne disease.

Two recent food testing investigations in Germany have highlighted Campylobacter contamination in chicken.

In tests commissioned by German TV channel RTL, chicken products were bought from Kaufland stores in Saxony-Anhalt, Saxony, Thuringia, Bavaria, Baden-Württemberg, Rhineland-Palatinate, North Rhine-Westphalia, Hesse, Lower Saxony, and Berlin.