The declining trend of salmonellosis cases in the EU has levelled off according to the annual report on zoonotic diseases published today.
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French baby milk formula maker Lactalis has ordered a global product recall over fears of salmonella contamination. Health authorities in France said 26 infants in the country have become sick since early December. The recall affects products and exports to countries including Britain, China, Pakistan, Bangladesh and Sudan.
Brexit poses huge risks to food standards in the UK and will have “seismic implications” for its food and farming systems, according to a new report. Author Dan Crossley, executive director of the Food Ethics Council, said that the UK faced a stark choice.
Key employers from the Northern Ireland agri-food industry attended a unique networking event at Queen's University Belfast recently to meet agriculture and food science students poised to be the next generation of employees.
China plans to eliminate another 12 highly toxic pesticides from use within five years, state media reported late on Monday (Dec 5), as the government looks to improve the safety of its farm produce.
East of England Co-op will become the first major retailer to sell food beyond its "best before" dates. The chain's 125 stores in East Anglia will sell dried foods and tinned products for just 10p in a bid to cut food waste.
The guidance has been produced in association with the Food Standards Agency (FSA) and Defra. It will be used by food manufacturers, retailers and brands as the industry standard and brings together recommendations that ensure food is safe and adheres to legal requirements, with best practice information to ensure it is stored and used within time.
Glyphosate, the key ingredient in the world’s bestselling weedkiller, has won a new five-year lease in Europe, closing the most bitterly fought pesticide relicensing battle of recent times.
Sales of ‘superfoods’ are being bolstered by the increase of health-consciousness in society. Despite some of these foods being on our supermarket shelves for a long time, in the past few years they have experienced a resurgence, with claims of vitamins and antioxidants fuelling demand.
Environment, Foods and Rural Affairs Committee publishes report into 2 Sisters Food Group and Standards in Poultry Processing as Ranjit Singh Boparan confirms wide-ranging food standards commitments in writing.
More than 10,000 Northern Irish cattle have been reported stolen or lost in just three years – with cross-border smuggling thought to be one of the main causes.
Brexit could have serious implications on the UK food manufacturing industry which is already struggling to maintain consistent levels of food safety compliance, two leading North-East specialists have cautioned.
The UK Food Standards Agency and the British Standards Institute have published revised guidance for food and drink businesses on how to protect against adulteration, counterfeiting and other attacks on food and food supply.
A food safety firm that aims to protect the agrifood supply chain has been named best new-start company in a competition run by InterTradeIreland. Belfast-based Xenobics Ltd took home a prize of €20,000 as part of its victory in cross-border trade body Seedcorn's investor readiness competition.
Enriching eggs and chicken with omega-3 nutrients could potentially have "substantial" health benefits, according to an academic from the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland. The clinical trial was delivered on behalf of Belfast-headquartered farming and food company Devenish.
Consumers often struggle to identify where their meat comes from due to a lack of transparency on produce, according to a new survey. The latest shelfwatch survey by NFU Scotland looked at almost 35,000 packs of pork, bacon and gammon in 47 supermarket stores across the UK.
Most of the UK’s biggest supermarket chains are falling short on measures to reduce the use of antibiotics in the production of the meat and animal products they sell, campaigners have warned, with potentially harmful impacts on human health.
One of the UK’s largest dairy producers has warned that a badly handled Brexit could lead to price hikes for food, and scarcity in the shops from April 2019. Gabriel D’Arcy, the chief executive of LacPatrick in Strabane complained that ministers were too focused on financial services and were putting the country’s food security and food standards at risk.
The UK will back a total ban on insect-harming pesticides in fields across Europe, the environment secretary, Michael Gove, has revealed. The decision reverses the government’s previous position and is justified by recent new evidence showing neonicotinoids have contaminated the whole landscape and cause damage to colonies of bees.
The EU commission are conducting a public consultation on an initiative to improve the food supply chain. The purpose of this questionnaire is to better understand the extent to which such potential unfair trading practices (UTP's) actually occur in the food supply chain, and what would be the costs these have to the supply chain.
