An assessment of controls at companies in the dairy sector in Ireland has found the system works well overall but there are several areas that need improvement.
The audit covered official controls by a Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (
The FSAI has published its Audit of Official Controls in the Dairy Production Chain. The FSAI has overall responsibility for the enforcement of food law in Ireland. The FSAI carries out official control audits to examine the effectiveness and appropr
An ongoing project is identifying the bacteria present in dairy processing environments to evaluate the impact on Listeria monocytogenes.
Teagasc in Ireland and the University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna in Austria are collecting samples from dairy
The Dairy Council for Northern Ireland has published an EU Sustainable Dairy fact book, which details the key research and knowledge transfer initiatives pioneered in the Northern Ireland diary sector.
The fact book is an EU-funded resource develop
A fashionable low-calorie ice cream may contain traces of milk despite being called dairy free, prompting anger among allergy sufferers who describe its labelling as “misleading and confusing”.
Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine
The Dairy/Food positions will be located in one of the Department's Dairy Science laboratories or in one of the Department's offices throughout the country.
Global company Arla Foods has launched ‘Arla UK 360’, a new standard in UK dairy farming. The programme covers six areas essential to building a profitable, responsible dairy farm business.
Officials are advising that mare’s milk should be heat treated to kill Brucella, despite the low risk of brucellosis in Germany.
The joint opinion from Federal Institute for Risk Assessment (BfR) and Friedrich-Loeffler-Institut (FLI) assessed to what
A novel cocktail of six lytic bacteriophages is proving effective enough against Shiga toxin-producing E. coli (STEC) in broth, milk and meat in the laboratory to spur commercial interest.
Produced by a team of researchers, mostly from Argentina’s Ro
safefood recently carried-out research whose aim was to provide a comprehensive overview (or "map") of the dairy supply chain on the island of Ireland. The project involved a review of the literature and a series of semi-structured interviews with a
A post-Brexit border breakdown will result in less availability and higher prices for butter, yogurts and cheese, the UK’s biggest dairy company has warned.
Glanbia, a major Irish dairy producer, is to build a new 130m euro (£115m) mozzarella cheese factory in County Laois in the Republic of Ireland. Glanbia and its US partner, Leprino Foods, are one of Europe's largest mozzarella producers.
Dale Farm, the UK’s largest farmer-owned dairy co-operative is to supply cheddar cheese to its stores across the UK, Europe and the United States in a new deal agreed with supermarket Lidl.
Investigators in France have confirmed a link between the cases of several children with a disease that destroys blood-clotting cells, causes low red blood counts and kidney failure and the consumption of cheese made with raw milk.
Research recently published by scientists in The Netherlands shows that E. coli and Campylobacter bacteria are so common on goat and sheep dairy farms that pasteurization is necessary to prevent contamination of raw milk and products made with it.
A French company this weekend expanded its recall of cheese made with unpasteurized milk after health officials reported a seventh child has developed kidney failure because of an E. coli infection linked to the cheese.
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’.
NI’s biggest dairy business Dale Farm says it “has an interest” in talks over the future of cross-border co-op LacPatrick. LacPatrick’s 700 local farmers were informed this week its board was considering a merger, partnership or joint venture with an
The European Dairy Association said that its guidelines were intended to “harmonise and further improve food safety, consumer protection and legal certainty in the Single Market”.
Irish dairy giant LacPatrick has unveiled a "Brexit-proofing" technology centre in Co Tyrone in a £30m investment creating 20 jobs.
