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This guide sets out an approach to ensure the correct use of marketing materials and terms which do not mislead the consumer when it comes to labelling Irish gin

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Mini jelly cups from Taiwan have been recalled from more than 25 countries because they may pose a choking risk.

ABC jelly fruit cup sweets are subject to recall because of the presence of gel-forming food additive ingredients. The additives are E407

Today, the Commission has published a Notice providing guidance on food safety management systems for food retail activities, including food donation. This initiative aims to support small businesses such as butchers, bakeries, groceries and ice-crea

The Covid-19 situation has put a considerable amount of pressure on global food supply chains creating formidable challenges for manufacturers and retailers around ingredient sourcing.

Some businesses are having to switch to new or different ingredie

More than 100 people are sick in a Campylobacter outbreak in Denmark linked to a local dairy.

The Danish Veterinary and Food Administration (Fødevarestyrelsen), DTU Food Institute and Statens Serum Institut (SSI) are investigating illnesses that bega

The European region cannot afford to lose focus on other health threats during the coronavirus outbreak, according to the World Health Organization (WHO).

Officials from the WHO’s Regional Office for Europe said unsafe food is still affecting million

The mega-supermarket chain Tesco has reported 9 percent of chickens tested in the first quarter this year had the highest level of Campylobacter contamination.

This is above the Food Standards Agency (FSA) target of 7 percent and Tesco’s own benchmar

The Food Safety Authority of Ireland (FSAI) today reported that three Enforcement Orders were served on food businesses during the month of May for breaches of food safety legislation, pursuant to the FSAI Act, 1998. The Enforcement Orders were issue

A team of researchers at Princeton. have developed an antibiotic that can act as a poison arrow against antibiotic-resistant bacteria. Part of the antibiotic actually punctures the bacterial wall and destroys folate within the cell. This antibiotic i

EFSA's Panel on Contaminants in the Food Chain (CONTAM) has launched an open consultation on the draft scientific opinion on the update of the risk assessment of nickel in food and drinking water. This document presents an estimation of the acute and

You may or may not know this, but you can buy food through Facebook Marketplace. Sounds like a good idea in a time of potential food shortages, right?

Maybe not.

Food safety experts think that buying food from “opaque” Facebook posts may lead to cons

Norwegian salmon producer Kvarøy Arctic has joined the IBM Food Trust to increase transparency and help prevent fraud in the seafood industry.

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“Food safety is EFSA’s daily job, but it’s everyone’s business to consider food safety now and in the future if we want to limit the impact of climate change and to build sustainable global food systems for the benefit of consumers, producers and our

In recognition of World Food Safety Day, safefood & FSAI remind people never to wash raw chicken

• 32% of adults cooking more from scratch¹ due to Covid-19 restrictions
• 49% report cooking more² than they did before
• 40% of 18-34s regularly searching³ f

The FSA is a non-ministerial department of over 1300 people, with a big vision – to drive change in the food system so that it delivers “food we can trust” - as the country has now left the EU, the scale of this challenge cannot be underestimated. Mo

The use of online surveys to collect responses from healthy people during outbreak investigations has been tested by researchers in Canada.

In foodborne outbreak investigations, case-control and cohort studies are used to test hypotheses and identify