Supermarket giant Tesco is to remove best-before date labels from selected fruit and vegetable lines, in a bid to reduce food waste.
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Poultry processor Pilgrim’s Pride has announced the appointment of Chris Kirke as president of its UK and Continental Europe unit Moy Park.
AFBI and Queen’s University Belfast have announced a new strategic alliance to create a globally competitive research and education partnership, developing the next generation of leaders and experts in agri-food and bioscience.
The Food Standards Agency Chair, Heather Hancock, is inviting applications to fill the post of Chair of the Advisory Committee on the Microbiological Safety of Food (ACMSF).
The World Health Organization wants to eliminate artificial trans fats from the global food supply and has a step-by-step strategy on how to do so by 2023.
A new method of detecting Arabica coffee that has been tainted by lower-quality Robusta beans has been developed by food science training centre The Quadram Institute.
Australia’s export beef brands command impressive price tags of up to $120 a kilogram in the booming Chinese marketplace, but just half the Aussie-branded beef on offer actually originates from Australia.
The Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI) is looking at global models adopted by various countries for labelling standards of packaged foods.
The standard has been developed in an effort to create a “pipeline to bring skilled workers into the sector and developing existing skills and talent”
The Institute for Global Food Security is to establish a dedicated research facility to investigate a new and cutting-edge technology with huge and exciting potential to reduce harmful chemicals and antibiotics in the food chain. The Centre for Plasma in Agri-Food (AgriPlas) will be the first of its kind in Europe.
The EU Energy and Environment Sub-Committee publishes its report on the potential impacts of Brexit on the price and availability of food for UK consumers.
To protect against STEC infections through contaminated food, the BfR recommends heating methods, such as boiling, frying, roasting or pasteurising.
Sterling Crew, strategic adviser at Shield Safety Group, explains how the use of blockchain can build trust in the food and drink industry.
EFSA's Scientific Committee and Emerging Risks (SCER) and Communication (COM) Units have launched on 4th May an open consultation on a draft ‘Guidance on Communication of Uncertainty in Scientific Assessments’.
This Call for Proposals aims to identify organisations to which tasks falling within the mission of the Food Ingredients and Packaging Unit can be entrusted by EFSA.
The multistate outbreak of E. coli O157:H7 HUS infections that is linked to romaine lettuce has grown again. Now 121 people in 25 states have been sickened by this pathogenic bacteria. One person, in California, has died.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture has published its proposals on a national standard for the disclosure of GMOs, or bioengineered food.
The dairy industry in the U.S. has been urged to finish the phase-out of phthalates in plastic and rubber as the FDA is accused of being ‘asleep at the switch’.
A position of a Professor for Food Quality Assurance with special focus on food safety, food hygiene as well as on quality and risk management is currently open at the Department of Food Sciences and Technology, BOKU - University of Natural
Resources and Life Sciences Vienna, Austria. This permanent position will be available starting from October 1st, 2019.
A position of a Professor for Food Technology with special focus on food processing/engineering is currently open at the Department of Food Sciences and Technology, BOKU - University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences Vienna, Austria. This permanent position will be available starting from March 1st, 2019.
