A consumer group has expressed concern that proposed food safety reforms could see more inspections carried out by third parties employed by businesses.
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Premium crisp manufacturer Tyrrells has played down warnings over the cancer-causing chemical acrylamide, after an investigation revealed its ‘sweet potato lightly salted crisps’ contained almost 2.5 times the recommended EU limit for acrylamide.
Scientists have called for a vaccine against campylobacter, to cut the number of contaminated chickens in supermarkets.
A new Salmonella serotype that first caused illness in Greece has spread to three other countries, according to the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC).
It’s not an April fool. The introduction on 1 April of a new registration regime for alcohol wholesalers is of huge significance to the supply chain.
BY FRANCINE L. SHAW
"I eventually became a health inspector, which meant I had access to hundreds of restaurant kitchens. My assumption that everyone operated as I did came to an abrupt end one day as I entered a restaurant kitchen just after they had finished slaughtering a goat – yes a goat. In a restaurant kitchen."
Police have begun an investigation after what appeared to be human waste was found in drinks cans delivered to a Coca Cola factory in Northern Ireland.
“How could people ever believe that seaweed could be made out of plastic?” long-time seaweed entrepreneur Zeng Huaqing asked himself on Feb. 17, after one of his clients sent him a 10-second long video on WeChat that appeared to show a home cook finding a piece of thin black plastic in a bag of seaweed that bore Zeng’s company name. Zeng reassured the client and put the video out of his mind—but not for long.
Quebec’s food and agriculture minister, Laurent Lessard, announced new measures Friday aimed at countering fraud in the meat industry.
The measures were deemed necessary following a recent investigative report by French network TVA, indicating that ground beef and veal sold in Quebec supermarkets had been found to contain pork.
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The word ‘transparency’ began circulating as an industry buzzword, but due to the wealth of knowledge that we can instantly access and the paradigm shifts in attitudes toward food, it’s no longer optional – transparency has become basic consumer expectation.
Brazil is tracing around 5,000 shipping containers that contain meat products, to determine if the meat has come from any factories under investigation.
A public health alert has been issued after a man, who is seriously ill in a Dublin hospital, was given fake alcohol.
David Ian Tomlins, aged 66 of Green Lane, Hucclecote, and former food business operator of The Country Butcher, Main Road, Huntley, pleaded guilty at Cheltenham Magistrates Court in November 2016, to seven charges of failing to keep his premises clean and one of failing to comply with an improvement notice from hygiene inspectors. He also admitted two offences of selling meat and meat products to pubs and restaurants in London without authority from the Food Standards Agency.
USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) updated its “Equivalence Status Chart” yesterday. It’s a helpful guide for those who want to know where their food may be coming from. It includes country specific footnotes.
The footage shows one way that waste plastic could be entering the marine and global food chain.
When conducting a Hazard Analysis to comply with the Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA)’s new rules, many are relying on Google to search for scientific studies, guidance and other useful information.
Food fraud is rife around the world, the main aim being to make more money by fooling consumers. The practice has become so rife that the US Pharmacopeial Convention has created a food fraud database to help protect brands and detect instances of adulteration.
The government of Canada’s announcement this week of changes to its food and drug regulations to permit irradiation of ground beef was not a surprise. It was a long time coming, though, with industry having requested the change in 1998.
Listeria, a common food-borne bacterium, may pose a greater risk of miscarriage in the early stages of pregnancy than appreciated, according to researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Veterinary Medicine studying how pathogens affect fetal development and change the outcome of pregnancy.
The implications of the Brexit referendum have left many in the food industry uncertain of how future food safety assurance will be influenced. Simon Weaver, red24’s Product Risks Commercial Manager, examines the issues.
