Food safety in the European Union is an important goal and pre-requisite in the face of the increasingly rapid globalisation of the economy. The range of foods on offer in Europe is steadily growing. This, in turn, leads to an increase in the require
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Research published today by the Food Standards Agency shows that a significant proportion (76%) of oysters tested from UK oyster growing beds contained norovirus. The virus was detected at lo
Agriculture experts have hit back at criticism over antibiotic use on farms, calling for stronger regulation within human treatment.
The NFU, Bpex and the
Responsible Use of Medicine in Agriculture alliance (RUMA) have said legislation should focus
The Food Standards Agency is reiterating its advice on the safe storage and use of food, after Clostridium botulinum was found in a single jar of ready-prepared sauce.
Companies must take Clostridium botulinum and other food safety issues into accoun
More than 100 people, including a dozen Chinese government employees, have been sentenced over chemical-laced pork that caused a food safety scandal earlier this year, state media says.
One person was given the death penalty.
An investigation into the
The European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) has evaluated the public health risk of Shiga-toxin producing Escherichia coli (STEC)[1] and other pathogenic bacteria that may contaminate seeds intended for sprouting and sprouted seeds (sprouts, shoots and
The Food Standards Agency has published the results of a survey looking at levels of mycotoxins in food. Mycotoxins are chemicals produced by certain moulds.
The majority of the samples tested contained levels of mycotoxins below the legal limits;
The Food Standards Agency has today published the second edition of the Q&A on its guidance document 'E.coli O157: control of cross-contamination'.
This new version of the Q&A addresses a number of issues that have arisen since the original document
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The Food Safety Authority of Ireland (FSAI) today published a nationwide survey that provides an insight into consumers’ understanding and attitude to
Consumer food safety behaviour may be considered the lynchpin in the food chain continuum from ‘farm to fork’ as they may handle food as they see fit and epidemiological data indicates that the home is an important point of origin for up to 87 per ce
This document is the first in a three volume series. The terms of reference for the series are outlined in the introduction, which also provides an overview of the environmental, social and personal factors that can affect food behaviour. Volume 1 ou
This study investigated the factors and mechanisms by which significant foodborne pathogens enter the domestic kitchen, adapt to the conditions they find there, persist and spread, and are frequently transferred to human hosts.
It examined the chal
The Food Safety Authority of Ireland (FSAI) served a record 12 enforcement orders on food businesses across the State in October.
In addition to 11 closure orders issued to food businesses for breaches in food safety legislation the authority also iss
The FSA is inviting researchers to tender for a project exploring how food safety is considered during the procurement of food in the UK public sector, for example in schools and care providers.
The public inquiry into the 2005 E.coli O157 outbreak i
safefood has launched a new awareness campaign to highlight how germs that cause food poisoning can easily spread in the kitchen as research1 reveals 43% of kitchens were contaminated with raw meat bacteria after food preparation. Results from a seco
The FSA is inviting researchers to tender for two projects – one to develop a tool to identify good and bad aspects of the culture towards food safety in businesses, and the other to evaluate the risk of buying food through the Internet.
Recent outbre
The European Food Safety Authority has published its third Annual Report on Pesticide Residues, which gives an overview of pesticide residues found in food in the European Union during 2009 and assesses the exposure of consumers to those residues thr
IRELAND’S WATER is not as clean as we would like to think. The rate of cryptosporidiosis here is four times the EU average and higher than any other member state, according to the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control. “Another Galway-ty
STOP PRESS!
2012 Chemical Residues Network Conference will be held at Ashtown Food Research Centre, Dublin on the 21st February 2012.
The theme of the meeting will be 'Anthelmintics: Emerging Issues with Drug Residues and Drug Resistance'.
Further det
