Title of Project: Enhancement of texture, flavour and nutritional value of meat products for older people (Meat4Vitality)
Location: Cork
Basic Function: The successful candidate will be based at the National Food Imaging Centre (NFIC) in Moorepark unde
Five new interdisciplinary research projects have been awarded a portion of £9 million to help increase the resilience of UK food systems. The projects integrate biological, environmental and social sciences to help ensure food security in the face o
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Introduction: Restaurant guides such as the Good Food Guide Top 50 create a hierarchy focussing on taste and sophistication. Safety is not explicitly included. We used restaurant associated outbreaks to assess evidence for safety.
As a result of the evaluation of the available analysis results of the maize harvest 2015, GMP+ International – in collaboration with other collaborating scheme holders, has adjusted the risk profile for Aflatoxin B1. For Austria this means that its
Two new cases of Salmonella enteritidis are being investigated in Finland after an earlier outbreak linked to imported organic mung bean sprouts.
CDC is providing $67 million to help health departments nationwide tackle antibiotic resistance and other patient safety threats, including healthcare-associated infections.
Two people were hospitalised due to an outbreak of E.coli, linked to two batches of Dunsyre Blue Cheese, manufactured by Lanarkshire-based Errington Cheese. Fourteen people across Scotland and two people in England contracted the E.coli bacteria, pro
Five UK supermarkets have been warned to take thousands of pots of yoghurt off their shelves amid concerns they may contain pieces of rubber.
The yoghurt, supplied by Yeo Valley but mostly sold under own-brand labels, pose a "possible risk" to health
Brian Byrne works in the Dairy Science Laboratory of National Reference Laboratory Listeria monocytogenes. He recently attended 'The 5th Next Generation Sequencing Workshop: Listeria monocytogenes' at the Austrian Agency for Health and Food Safety (A
