Australia’s food system has grown and evolved over hundreds of years. It is a system that’s served Australians well and underpinned much of our economic prosperity. But it’s a system at risk. And nowhere is the threat larger or more real than in the domain of food fraud. Unfortunately, for many, it seems to be a lower-order issue.
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Further developments to Northern Ireland’s unique quality control system for the animal feed industry were unveiled at a meeting in Armagh this week. The Food Fortress network is made up of feed producers and importers contributing to a programme of sampling and testing to protect the food chain from contamination and currently covers close to 5 million tonnes of compound feed production.
The Food Safety Authority of Ireland (FSAI) today reported that six Closure Orders and one Prohibition Order were served on food businesses during the month of March for breaches of food safety legislation.
Pioneering use of satellite images is helping ESRC-funded researchers cutting survey costs in preventing the spread of drug-resistant bacteria.
Fish stocks in the Mediterranean are deteriorating at an alarming rate, with 93 percent of assessed stocks at an over-exploited level, according to studies compiled by the European Commission’s Scientific Technical Economic Committee for Fisheries (STECF) and the Joint Research Centre (JRC)
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Food Standards Scotland's Food Crime Unit has taken to the road to raise public awareness of the different types of food fraud – and how to report it. Defined as any deliberate manipulation, substitution, mislabelling or fraud in relation to food and drink, food fraud costs the UK economy an estimated £1.2 billion each year.
China has decided to apply stricter rules on pesticide production and imports to improve food safety and environment protection in the world's most populous country. Chinese Premier Li Keqiang signed a State Council decree on Saturday to promulgate a revised regulation on pesticide management, as the authority views the move as vitally important to improving food safety and the environment.
The deputy chief food safety officer for the Canadian Food Inspection Agency says collaboration is key to combating food fraud as science is no longer sufficient to stop the problem. Dimitri made the comments during a panel discussion at a two-day conference in Quebec City on global prevention and mitigation of food fraud.
The EU is introducing new rules to cut down on ‘food fraud’ and prevent a repeat of the horsemeat scandal, which was first uncovered by Irish authorities four years ago. However there are concerns the regulations don’t go far enough, and that a scheme similar to the Republic’s country-of-origin labelling system should be rolled out across Europe.
More than half of us bought a "free from" product during the last three months, according to Kantar Worldpanel. Younger people are leading a trend towards buying products without dairy and gluten in particular. He said that while only about 5% of the population needed to avoid certain food groups for medical reasons, 54% of households joined the trend in the first three months of this year by buying at least one product from the category.
Co. Armagh based meat supplier, Eurostock Foods, which has recently been rebranded as Bawnbua Foods, has today announced new contract wins worth in excess of €11.75m. Over the last three years, Bawnbua Foods has invested €2.35m in its business and plans to invest a further €1.18m throughout 2017 to support its ongoing development. The new contracts span a variety of customers including international supermarket chains, food manufacturing companies and specialist frozen food retailers.
Brazil’s rotten meat scandal may have weathered the worst of the storm, but financial losses from the corruption saga could still reach $4.8 billion (bn), Fitch Ratings has claimed.
A group of 12 people accused of making and selling fake branded baby milk powder in what could be the biggest milk formula scandal in a decade in China went on trial in Shanghai today (27th March)
Bottles of unlicensed "Diamond Vodka" have been found to have potentially deadly levels of methanol in them. Authorities have warned people not to drink from the bottles, and to go to hospital immediately if they feel any symptoms.
Food safety researchers are calling on public health agencies to develop clear guidelines on when to inform the public about foodborne illness outbreaks.
A European team of researchers led by the University of Parma, is developing what it claims is the first ever fluid‐repellent, antibacterial metal surfaces in the food and beverage industry.
Former Marks & Spencer (M&S) technical director, David Gregory, has become the president of the Institute of Food Science & Technology (IFST).
Some of the biggest consumers of Brazilian meat have suspended imports over allegations that companies have been selling unsafe produce for years. China has banned red meat imports from Brazil, while the European Union said it would stop buying from companies implicated in the scandal.
Food Standards Agency Chair Heather Hancock has announced the appointment of a Chair and seven members to the Agency’s new Science Council. The Council will provide high-level, expert and independent advice and challenge to the Agency on how it uses science to underpin its work.
