In a recent webinar, Thomas Spengler of Bruker BioSpin along with Elena Meléndez Álvarez and Eva Lopez Rituerto of Estación Enológica de Haro, La Rioja-Spain discussed the role of NMR in assuring authenticity of Spanish Wines.
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Massimo Fera, Selvarani Elahi, Mark Woolfe, Sterling Crew and John Spink investigate the effect of the COVID-19 pandemic on the occurrence of observed food fraud incidents.
Introduction
The effects of the COVID-19 pandemic are being felt across the wor
Monthly summary of articles on food fraud and adulteration - November, 2020. Food fraud cases: fruits and vegetables, fat and oils, honey, wine, herbs and spices, milk and milk products, fish and fish products, alcoholic beverages, cereals and bakery
This week, as Brexit took effect, a company in Cork that sells sports posters to Europe and around the world ceased all direct online sales to the UK.
"There's no point having the hassle," said Wayne Mullins, a graphic designer who runs Kobe Designs.
A project looking at the risk of ciguatera poisoning in Europe has finished work after almost five years.
An international scientific meeting was held in October for the EuroCigua project which began in April 2016 and ends this month.
Ciguatera is a
The Food Safety Authority of Ireland (FSAI) today stated that 42 Enforcement Orders were served on food businesses for breaches in food safety legislation in 2020, a decrease of 67% in comparison to 125 Enforcement Orders served in 2019. The drop in
For people in wealthy countries, diarrhea is usually nothing more than an uncomfortable inconvenience for a few days. But for a poor child in a developing country, repeated bouts of diarrhea can lead to serious health consequences such as malnutritio
Covid-19 is the most severe global health crisis we’ve faced in over a hundred years. Beyond the direct health impact of the virus, the pandemic’s implications for wider public health, societies, and economies will be felt for a long time. Wellcome r
Today, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved a first-of-its-kind intentional genomic alteration (IGA) in a line of domestic pigs, referred to as GalSafe pigs, which may be used for food or human therapeutics. This is the first IGA in an anim
Shelf-life guidance for vacuum and modified atmosphere packed (VP/MAP) chilled fresh beef, lamb and pork with respect to non-proteolytic Clostridium botulinum has been updated across the UK.
The decision, taken after an extensive programme of stakeho
Poor hygiene when handling food is a major cause of foodborne illness. To investigate whether hygiene practices visible in television cooking shows influence viewers’ kitchen hygiene, a study on the adoption of demonstrated hygiene behavior was condu
Food poisoning in England and Wales has gone down for the fifth year in a row, according to annual figures.
There were more than 8,800 formally notified cases of food poisoning in 2019 compared to just more than 11,000 in 2018. The most recent time n
Since 2005, IAFP's European symposium has been shaping the future of food safety by providing a forum for the exchange of ideas with colleagues from across Europe working in industry, government, and academia. The Symposium is an excellent forum to g
Experts have helped develop risk-based approaches to control two parasites in meat, requiring the re-evaluation of traditional practices and the assessment of regulatory and industry resources.
The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nati
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EFSA has launched an open consultation on a draft scientific report on Technical assistance in the field of risk communication. This document provides an assessment of risk communication theory and best practice by EFSA’s social science experts and s
An EU-funded project aiming to boost food safety for infants in the European Union and China has begun.
The Safe Food for Infants in the EU and China (SAFFI) project is planned to run until the end of August 2024 and involves academia, food safety au
This year has been dominated by the global coronavirus pandemic but it also held many other surprises such as contaminated beer in Brazil, pesticide residues in seeds from India, and approval of cell-based meat in Singapore.
As you can imagine, tryin
The European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) has held an online workshop on crisis preparedness, giving attention to fast-evolving, largescale foodborne disease outbreaks.
Sixty-three participants attended plenary and/or working group activity sessions
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