The Food Safety Authority of Ireland (FSAI) today reported that four Closure Orders were served on food businesses during the month of October for breaches of food safety legislation, pursuant to the FSAI Act, 1998 and EC (Official Control of Foodstuffs) Regulations, 2010.
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Peter Whelan, director of audit and compliance at the Food Standards Agency Ireland, made the remarks at the Food Brexit conference in London this week.
Queen’s University, through the Gibson Trust funded Gibson Institute, has been awarded £88,000 from Invest NI via the Agri-Food Quest Funding Scheme, towards a major new research project to support Northern Ireland’s artisan food sector.
THE Dairy Council for Northern Ireland has secured over €3 million of European funding towards work over the next three years. The European funding will allow the body to undertake export support and sustainability programmes worth €3.4 million both at home and abroad.
The Institute of Food Science & Technology (IFST) has launched what will become a series of Food Science Fact Sheets providing information on food science topics.
Ranjit Singh Boparan, the multimillionaire boss of 2 Sisters Food Group, has apologised for the scandal engulfing his company as he pledged to fund the cost of independent inspectors to police all 12 of his UK chicken sites.
The tenth report on food sampling activity in Northern Ireland covers the targeted, risk-based, sampling and testing of food carried out by local councils in Northern Ireland across the food supply and retail chain.
The Irish beef industry is dependent on exports to stay afloat. This comes as only 10% of all beef cattle slaughtered in Ireland are consumed domestically; the remaining 90% are exported.
The dairy industry in Northern Ireland needs to debate innovative changes as to how farmers are paid for milk, according to the Ulster Farmers’ Union (UFU).
n investigation into the sale of unregistered meat on social media was recently carried out by the State’s food safety body which said it is increasingly seeing suspected cases of food fraud.
The Food Standards Agency has decided to extend its investigations to other 2 Sisters poultry plants in England and Wales. This follows an initial inspection by the FSA, working with the local authority, into the food hygiene and labelling concerns raised by ITN/Guardian on 28 September at the 2 Sisters Food Group’s West Bromwich plant.
Commissioner for Health and Food Safety Vytenis Andriukaitis and the Director-General of Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations (FAO) José Graziano da Silva, today agreed to ramp up collaboration between the two organisations in tackling the problems of waste in food supply chains and antimicrobial resistance.
The strategic partnership and acquisition agreement announced in May 2017 by Dawn Meats and Dunbia has been completed, with all relevant regulatory clearances approved.
The sixth annual Global Food Security Index, compiled by the Economist Intelligence Unit, shows that worldwide food security fell for the first time in five years, largely because of weather disasters and a decline in global political stability.
A report commissioned by the Livestock and Meat Commission has found that if the UK fails to agree a post-Brexit trade deal with the EU and has to instead revert to World Trade Organization trading conditions, Northern Ireland beef and sheep meat output could decline by 21%, with exports to the EU collapsing by over 90%.
THE Ulster Farmers' Union has said it has been reassured over funding fears post Brexit after a visit from DEFRA (Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs) Secretary Michael Gove.
AN Irish food safety firm has secured a lucrative £15 million contract to provide DNA based traceability for all Swiss beef. IdentiGEN has secured the major Switzerland contract for a initial five-year period and involves the use of the company's DNA-TraceBack system, which will be able to guarantee the integrity of Swiss beef.
Reusable “bags for life” can spread deadly food poisoning bacteria if they are used to carry raw foods such as fish and meat, consumers have been warned by the government’s food safety watchdog.
The Food Standards Agency is making changes to its campylobacter retail survey of fresh shop-bought UK-produced chickens.
NFU Mutual surveyed more than 2,000 consumers and found food confidence was waning – and producers were top on the list of suspects.
