Congratulations to the winner of our last competition, Dr. Leonie Wallace, Public Analyst’s Library, Galway.
The answer to the previous crossword was FESTIVE.
safefood is delighted to offer one lucky crossword winner a luxury hamper of gourmet food fro
International Food Safety Conference opens with call for greater global cooperation.
Greater international cooperation is needed to prevent unsafe food from causing ill health and hampering progress towards sustainable development, world leaders said
Government has been asked to halt all food, farming and environment consultations
The government has been asked to pause as a matter of “great urgency” consultations on all food, farming and environment issues because Brexit is choking the capacity o
We get our food from all sorts of places — grocery stores, restaurants, farms, relatives, our own gardens — and sometimes community food banks. In each and every case, food safety plays an important part in protecting us from getting sick from contam
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
Large food businesses are pledging to halve the UK’s food waste bill by 2030, and tackle waste from farm to fork, by signing up to support the new Food Waste Reduction Roadmap.
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 National Farmers' Union ("NFU") has delivered a blunt statement urging the British government to put food security at the top of the political agenda, warning of the vulnerability of the country’s food supplies post-Brexit.
The report suggests th
Salmonella spp. and E. coli are the most known types of food poisoning by the public in the United Kingdom, according to a survey. The Food Standards Agency's ("FSA's") biannual "Public Attitudes Tracker" (May 2018) found 91 percent were aware of Sal
New Food interviewed Professor Chris Elliott, Pro Vice Chancellor, Professor of Food Safety, and founder of the Institute for Global Food Security, ahead of the Food Brexit 2018 Conference (London, 1st November 2018).
In the article below, Prof. Elli
A report of a safefood-funded research project - on the topic of "Risk Profiling of Listeria monocytogenes in Ready-to-Eat Foods in Northern Ireland" - is now available on the safefood website (link to report available below).
This project involved:
The Food Safety Authority of Ireland (FSAI) is encouraging food businesses to read its guidance on selling and advertising food online following the publication of the results of an EU-wide coordinated control programme which identified offers of foo
Today the European Commission is publishing a study which estimates that up to 10% of the 88 million tons of food waste generated annually in the EU are linked to date marking. The study was commissioned with a view to map how date marking is used in
Mustard was undeclared on the labels of the below batches of Big Al’s Chicken Chunks and Chicken Dippers. This may make the implicated batches unsafe for consumers who are allergic to or intolerant of mustard or its constituents.
In light of growing awareness of the need to reduce food waste and an increase in food donations to combat food poverty, the Food Safety Authority of Ireland (FSAI) has published four new guidance documents for charities and donating food businesses
"Fake" olive oil is on its way to British supermarket shelves, experts have suggested, as large quantities of sub par produce are being produced in Italy.
The EU Energy and Environment Sub-Committee holds a one off evidence session on food fraud and the integrity of the food system with Professor Christopher Elliott, Director of the Institute for Global Food Safety at Queen's University.
A conference on Global Food Safety: Solutions for Today and Tomorrow will be held on October 23rd to 25th 2012 at The Crowne Plaza Hotel, Blanchardstown, Dublin. The conference is a joint initiative between Teagasc, The Institute for Food Science and
Managing Food Safety through HACCP (FETAC) – May 9thth & 10th
Foundation Certificate in Sensory Principles (IFST, UK
