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The 2018 report on the use of the Rapid Alert System for Food and Feed, published on 17 September, showed that a total of 3699 notifications of food or feed risks were reported by the Member States to the European Commission last year. Of these, 1118
The report on the use of the Rapid Alert System for Food and Feed published today shows that a total of 3832 notifications of food or feed risks were reported to the European Commission in 2017. 942 of these were classified as "alert", indicating a s
The Food Standards Agency (FSA) has opened a comment period on the approach to converting EU law for food and feed safety into UK law when the United Kingdom leaves the European Union next year.
The agency is seeking the views of businesses, consumer
The US Department of Agriculture's (USDA's) Economic Research Service released details last week regarding expected trade for agricultural products including feeds, feed grains and oilseeds.
A Europe-wide research effort is ramping up efforts to understand the risk to EU food supplies from climate change, after a report revealed that common staples are under threat from water scarcity and drought in the developing world.
The report, enti
According to Article 12 of Regulation (EC) No 396/2005, EFSA has reviewed the maximum residue levels (MRLs) currently established at European level for the pesticide active substance napropamide. To assess the occurrence of napropamide residues in pl
4,15-Diacetoxyscirpenol (DAS) is a mycotoxin primarily produced by Fusarium fungi and occurring predominantly in cereal grains. As requested by the European Commission, the EFSA Panel on Contaminants in the Food Chain ("CONTAM") assessed the risk of
The European Food Safety Authority ("EFSA") has published a report entitled: "Scientific Assistance to Assess the Detoxification Process for Dioxins and PCBs in Sunflower Cake by Hexane Extraction".
This was in an effort to support the European Commi
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
