The National Food Crime Unit (NFCU) would only take on investigatory powers on top of its intelligence gathering activities if it received ministerial support and between £4M and £5M a year of extra government funding, it emerged at the FSA’s Board m
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An invasive pufferfish is causing havoc for Mediterranean fishers, and the toxin it carries is turning up in native shellfish.
Plastic microbeads can no longer be used in cosmetics and personal care products in the UK, after a long-promised ban came into effect on Tuesday. The ban initially bars the manufacture of such products and a ban on sales will follow in July.
The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has issued guidance to the food industry detailing how it plans to enforce the FDA Food Safety Modernization Act and describing the “sweeping changes” as “the biggest overhaul of the nation’s food safety laws
Cornell researchers in the Department of Food Science found exposure to light-emitting diode (LED) sources for even a few hours degrades the perceived quality of milk more so than the microbial content that naturally accumulates over time.
Silicon Valley is developing an obsession with untreated, unfiltered water, according to The New York Times.
The U.K. government will extend its Brexit transition regime to help farmers cope with the loss of European Union subsidies when the country leaves the bloc in 2019 in a move that will add billions of pounds to the cost of the split.
Little information is available to the public in the U.S. or Canada more than six weeks into a deadly E. coli O157:H7 outbreak linked to romaine lettuce.
At least a dozen people have been sickened by E. coli O157 with a link to Sainsbury’s burgers.
Paris prosecutors with expertise in public health have launched an investigation into a salmonella outbreak associated with an international recall of baby milk sold by Lactalis, one of the world’s largest dairies based in western France.
Food safety practices that Americans take for granted -- washing hands with soap, refrigeration, and not cutting raw meat and vegetables on the same surface without disinfection -- are not widely practiced in other places around the world, and resear
A network managed by FAO and WHO is involved in trying to prevent further infections in the Salmonella outbreak from Lactalis infant formula.
Food Standards Agency in Northern Ireland (FSA) welcomes your comments on the draft Condensed Milk and Dried Milk Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2018.
Who will this consultation be of most interest to?
Enforcement authorities, manufacturers, wholesale
Feedback from a public consultation has helped EFSA to finalise the strategy for its next re-evaluation of the toxicity of bisphenol A (BPA). A “scientific protocol” that transparently details upfront the scope, methodology and information needs befo
Applicants can make their own estimates of exposure to food additives thanks to a new user-friendly version of a tool called the Food Additives Intake Model (FAIM).
The sale and distribution of antibiotics approved for use in food-producing animals in the United States decreased by 10 percent from 2015 to 2016, a U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) report said on Thursday (7th Dec 2017).
Fruit and spice extracts have been used to replicate the cured flavouring of bacon in the UK for the first time, removing cancer-causing nitrates from the meat. Finnebrogue Artisan’s Naked Bacon has been praised by a food scientist and a politician a
