Have you been following our GFSI Blog mini-series featuring guest posts from the winners of the 2019 Global Markets Awards? Our growing body of Global Markets Awards winners operate like international food safety ambassadors, propagating their knowle
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The Food Safety Authority of Ireland (FSAI) today reported that six Closure Orders were served on food businesses during the month of August for breaches of food safety legislation, pursuant to the FSAI Act, 1998 and the EC (Official Control of Foods
In Denmark, like the rest of the world food waste is an ongoing issue. It is estimated that over 700,000 tonnes of food are wasted or lost each year, equating to more than DKK11 bn (€1.4 bn) annually. The food industry is responsible for 133,000 ton
Millions of allergy sufferers across the country will be protected by a new law laid in Parliament today which will require more foods to be labelled with allergen information.
The law, which comes into effect from October 2021, will require business
An international conference exploring the challenges and opportunities facing the safety of global food supply today heard that whilst producing food sustainably is a major issue, food safety needs to be central to any debate to ensure innovations in
A meat cutting plant in Preston, England has had their fine for public health failures increased following an appeal.
Chris Elliott, Professor of Food Safety and Founder of the Institute for Global Food Security, alongside Professor Moira Dean and Postgraduate Research Student, Kelsey Robson, of Queen’s University, Belfast, explore food fraud in parallel supply chai
These publications provide estimates of the value of sales, value added, profitability, exports and employment for each of the ten subsectors of the food and drinks processing sector in Northern Ireland. These statistics are supplemented with fifteen
No part of our economy matters more than food. It is vital for life, and for pleasure. It shapes our sense of family, community and nation: cooking and eating together is perhaps the defining communal act. The food system also provides jobs for one
A food systems approach (FSA) is a useful interdisciplinary conceptual framework for research and policy aimed at sustainable solutions for the sufficient supply of healthy food. A new report about this approach, entitled “The food systems approach:
The Food Safety Authority of Ireland (FSAI) today reported that eight Closure Orders were served on food businesses during the month of July for breaches of food safety legislation, pursuant to the FSAI Act, 1998 and the EC (Official Control of Food
As part of a statewide drive against adulteration, Food Safety and Drug Administration (FSDA) and district administration officials raided vegetable markets and seized a good quantity of artificially coloured vegetables from vendors.
Officials raided
The compliance rate for farmers with the National Residue Control Plan (NRCP) in 2018 was 99.76% according to the Department of Agriculture.
The NRCP covers the testing for banned substances, approved medicines, pesticides and environmental contamina
Saffron laced with other lower quality ingredients was found in outlets in the county by West Sussex Trading Standards service.
Officers carried out testing on ten samples of the product and seven were adulterated with cheaper plant fibres.
Spanish police have arrested one of the alleged ringleaders of the 2013 horse meat scandal.
Guardia Civil detained Dutchman Jan Fasen in Calpe, Alicante last month at the request of French authorities. The National Court must now decide on possible e
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”.
Tesco is urgently recalling packs of Itsu’s Vegetable Gyoza over fears they may contain prawns which are not mentioned on the ingredients label.
On Sunday, the Food Standards Agency (FSA) issued a warning that the presence of prawns makes the product
Targetted surveillance testing by CFIA in 2018 found that 78% of the 240 honey samples collected from across Canada, were authentic, including 100% of Canadian honey sampled.
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