Researchers investigating the risks posed by climate change on the sustainability of fish and shellfish in the Irish Sea are being given more than £6m in EU funding to carry out two projects.
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Officers from Police Scotland are to visit farms and agricultural suppliers across the country to warn of the dangers which illegal and counterfeit pesticides pose to the integrity of the food chain, and to peoples’ health.
Asda is to sell free-range dairy milk in a first for a major UK retailer in a move that aims to help reconnect consumers with producers. The milk, which goes on sale on Wednesday, will carry the Pasture Promise logo which guarantees that it comes from cows grazed for at least six months of the year and shows that farmers were paid a fair price.
Millions of UK eggs will temporarily lose their free-range status after hens were forced to spend weeks inside barns as part of emergency bird flu measures. Since December, poultry has had to be kept indoors under government orders to prevent the spread of the disease. Under European Union rules, if birds have been housed for more than 12 weeks they cannot be marketed as free range.
The Health and Safety Authority in the Republic of Ireland is to begin a month-long intensive farm inspection campaign on Wednesday March 1st.
The MSC Scholarship Research Program is open to undergraduate and postgraduate students studying problems and solutions in fisheries science and management and the integrity of the seafood supply chain. Up to £4,000 per project is available for travel and other support.
Applications for the 2017 program are now open.
Deadline for applications: 03 April 2017
Application forms, FAQs, and further guidance >
Please send your completed application form to standards@msc.org.
Questions? Email Lucy Erickson, Science Communications Manager
Irish processor Dawn Farms is to create 150 new jobs over the next five years at its Meat Science & Innovation Centre as part of a €25 million investment programme.
The New York State Food Laboratory increased testing of food and beverage samples for health hazards, purity and accuracy of labeling by 10% last year.
Sampling was up from 61,000 tests in 2015 to 67,000 in 2016. Governor Andrew M. Cuomo said lab testing resulted in more than 300 product recalls and several investigations which led to removal of contaminated products from shelves across New York.
DNA test shows Subway sandwiches could contain just 50% chicken (Canada). Marketplace had chicken from 5 major fast food restaurants tested. A DNA analysis of the poultry in several popular grilled chicken sandwiches and wraps found at least one fast food restaurant isn't serving up nearly as much of the key ingredient as people may think.
Bord Bia has no definitive Brexit plan for Ireland’s agri-food sector, according to the organisation’s new chief executive Tara McCarthy.
“That’s because we do not know what the other party wants from the negotiations. But we do have lots of contingencies in place, where the potential impact of Brexit is concerned. And we are formulating these on the back of a data-based approach for each sector of the food industry.”
Northern Ireland food will reach another 1,000 supermarkets in Great Britain as two firms announce mega-deals worth around £1m each for their gluten-free lines. The contracts for Mash Direct in Comber and Scott's Bakery in Fivemiletown, which employ around 160 people each, are a demonstration of the continued prowess of the food industry in the province.
Hundreds of hotels in Britain have failed their food hygiene inspections, including establishments with five- and four-star ratings and one with two AA rosettes. In total, 652 hotels, guesthouses and B&Bs failed their latest food safety inspections for reasons including inspectors discovering seafood past its expiry date, raw meat stored next to sauces and high-risk food stored without temperature controls, according to a survey conducted by Which? Travel.
Sea fisheries, aquaculture and processing businesses in Scotland will receive more than GBP 8 million (USD 9.9 million, EUR 9.4 million) of EU and Scottish Government funding, including GBP 1.6 million (USD 2 million, EUR 1.9 million) for projects in Shetland to boost growth, protect jobs and develop sustainability.
A Northern Ireland company developing technology to fight food fraud has secured a £2 million investment from a Canadian-born entrepreneur who founded a billion-pound healthcare company.
For 60-year-old Harnam Kaur, consuming a pack of edible oil she bought from a local shop cost her her sight. After investigation, the Delhi resident came to know that argemone in the oil resulted in the loss of her vision permanently.
Harnam’s case is neither first nor unique in India as everyday thousands of people get affected by one or the other deadly diseases by consuming adulterated food products. In items such as milk, khoya, paneer, arhar dal, edible oils, sugar, and chilli and turmeric powder, the quantity of adulteration is high.
A majority of Canadian consumers are concerned that the foods they eat may be counterfeit, a new study by Dalhousie University says.
“The most popular one in Canada is misrepresentation,” said Sylvain Charlebois, dean of the faculty of management at Dalhousie University and Canada’s leading expert on food distribution, safety and security.
This week’s declaration of famine in parts of South Sudan shows that while lettuce and courgette shortages in Europe captured media attention, it is important to keep things in perspective. The rest of the world continues to fight lasting food imbalances caused by extreme weather, wars and regime changes, and other geopolitical shocks.
If the UK produced more of its own food, it could protect consumers and producers from sharp rises and declines in global food prices, a report says. Only 52% of food eaten in the UK comes from British farmers, according to a report published by Morrisons.
Chile's national fisheries and aquaculture service Sernapesca launched an emergency for algal bloom contamination in the Gulf of Penas in the Aysen region and its surrounding areas. The call follows the launch of an investigation last week after two mortalities events caused by toxic algae in the Gulf of Penas were reported by Chilean salmon producers Nova Austral and Australis Seafoods.
Recent comparative product testing by city-based Consumer Education and Research Centre (CERC), found traces of pesticides and heavy metals in six supposedly-organic brands of rice. Three brands of rice sold as organic had traces of the pesticide chlorpyrifos, and these were above the safe limit in two brands.
