Patients undergoing chemotherapy are at particular risk from food poisoning - but they aren't being made aware how critical food safety is at home, writes Ellen W. Evans
While chemotherapy is a gruelling form of treatment in itself, the reduced immun
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Location: Cork.
A Postdoctoral Researcher position is available, funded by the Irish Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine, as part of a 4-year research project on development of sensor-based microbial safety test
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
safefood is responsible for promoting food safety and healthy eating on the island of Ireland. To support our knowledge base, we would like to invite tenders for research in the following subject areas:
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Use of antimicrobials in an
Ireland has launched a "Food Safety and Authenticity Strategy" to proactively identify and mitigate risk in the supply chain.
Implementation will focus on seven areas: communications; training; risk assessment; contingency planning; data capture, ana
The Food Safety Authority of Ireland ("FSAI") has reminded caterers and restaurants of the dangers of not cooking minced beef burgers thoroughly to remove harmful bacteria.
In Ireland, 3% of raw minced beef is known to be contaminated with a particul
