As part of its ongoing efforts to improve allergen awareness and understanding in the food service sector and assist caterers in meeting their obligations in this regard, safefood carried out a series of workshops for Catering & Hospitality students
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Ensuring the integrity of the world’s food supply.
The Belfast Summit on Global Food Integrity will bring together foodsecurity experts from all over the world, spanning academia, industry, agriculture, NGOs and regulators.
Over three days, they will g
What exactly do we mean by food security? It’s a widely recognised concept but one that’s notoriously difficult to pin down. Journalist Nick Hughes reports.
For some people food security is about ensuring reliable access to markets so that supermarket
On 25 April 2018, Europol/Interpol published the results of the OPSON VII operation to which the EU Food Fraud Network contributed in particular in order to detect tuna intended for canning being fraudulently sold as fresh.
The role of the Co-ordinator is critical to the functioning of the all-island food safety Knowledge Network run by safefood and represents an exciting opportunity for a talented and enthusiastic individual.
The role will support the activities of this
The Northern Ireland Agricultural Research and Development Council (AgriSearch) has appointed John Henning from Moira as its new chairman. John Henning holds a number of senior positions within the UK agricultural industry.
FSA Chairman, Heather Hancock has announced the reappointment of Professor David McDowell, Professor Peter McClure and Dr Dan Tucker to the Advisory Committee on the Microbiological Safety of Food (ACMSF).
Food-security experts from all over the world are set to converge on Belfast next month for a major summit on how to feed a growing global population. The Belfast Summit on Global Food Integrity is being held amid massive industry challenges includin
Reporting to the Director of Marketing & Communications, and using a social marketing approach the successful candidate will manage safefood’s digital communications, education and promotional activities on the island of Ireland. They will ensure tha
It seems there are few jobs robots can't do these days, even the most delicate jobs, like picking asparagus or potting plant seedlings. But they're only needed because humans can't - or won't - do the work, farmers say.
NI’s biggest dairy business Dale Farm says it “has an interest” in talks over the future of cross-border co-op LacPatrick. LacPatrick’s 700 local farmers were informed this week its board was considering a merger, partnership or joint venture with an
An E. coli outbreak traced to chopped romaine lettuce has spread to another five states and public health officials are reporting a hospitalization rate of almost 60 percent, which is twice the usual rate.
Rules that require food manufacturers to both identify sources of a common, potentially carcinogenic byproduct of the cooking process in their wares and show how they are working on cutting it down have come into force.
Pathogen detectors built into plastic patches could someday spare you food poisoning. Carlos Filipe, a chemical engineer at McMaster University in Hamilton, Canada, and colleagues have developed a new kind of flexible film that’s coated in molecules
Some experts worry that weakening already overstretched institutions responsible for ensuring food safety in Great Britain will lead to unsafe food as the country prepares to finalize its exit from the European Union.
More than 200 million eggs distributed to restaurants and stores in nine states are being recalled over fears of salmonella.
Post 1: Food Policy and Science Capabilities: EU Exit Response
Post 2: Head of Food Hygiene and Animal Feed Policy
The IFH survey of media coverage is now online - please click here
IFH has recently reviewed of 54 media articles about hygiene and cleanliness, It makes interesting reading, showing the misleading reporting of this issue.
Surya Foods is recalling Mother Africa Pure Red Palm Oil and Mother Africa Zomi Palm Oil because they contain the illegal dye Sudan IV, which is potentially genotoxic and carcinogenic.
