Given the ongoing circumstances around COVID-19 safefood, in conjunction with the Knowledge Network Expert Group, is working on various methods of delivery to including podcasts, webinars, and virtual training.
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VIRTUAL FOOD SAFETY TRAINING WORKSHOPS FOR SME’s
An introduction to product shelf life for small food businesses
Virtual training workshop to explore various aspects of product shelf life
Virtual training workshop in partner
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Killowen Farm’s Nicholas Dunne, a member of the safefood Knowledge Network, reveals what running a dairy farm and successful business entails.
County Wexford’s Killowen Farm is located in Courtnacuddy, a small village outside the town of Enniscort
Declan Ferguson on his role as Technical Director of Co Down’s Finnebrogue Artisan Foods
Tyrone man Declan Ferguson has been in the food industry for over 20 years, having started early with a part-time job packing chickens in Moy Park while studyi
The United States is one of more than 30 countries listed as having received Brazil nuts from Bolivia contaminated with Salmonella. The United Kingdom raised the Salmonella Anatum alert in mid-August, according to a notification on the Rapid Alert Sy
The above batches of Gubbeen Cheese are being withdrawn from the market as a precaution because the presence of E. coli at the levels detected indicates a possible hygiene issue and the potential for the presence of harmful bacteria.
Public Health England is investigating a spike in reports of Shiga toxin-producing E. coli (STEC) infections this month.
Potential sources of the increase in E. coli O157 cases are not yet clear but recent warm weather may have played a role.
The lat
Consultation seeking stakeholders’ views on amendments to Retained EU Law for Food and Feed Safety and Hygiene for the end of the Transition Period.
This consultation concerns further amendments to UK food and feed regulations, including those necess
Testing of chicken nuggets as part of an outbreak investigation has revealed a different strain of Salmonella.
Public Health England (PHE) and the Food Standards Agency (FSA) are investigating a 2018 Salmonella Enteritidis outbreak to try and find th
Early in 2020 the German Federal Institute for Risk Assessment (BfR) published an extensive paper on the sources, risks and prevention of pathogenic E. coli in flour (and products containing raw flour). It followed a survey in Germany, that indicated
Public Health England has been scrapped with England to get a new public health authority.
Health Secretary Matt Hancock has announced a new agency called the National Institute for Health Protection (NIHP) that is focused on controlling infectious d
Health Secretary Matt Hancock has said it is now time to scrap Public Health England.
He said the new body, called the Health Protection Institute, will bring together Public Health England and NHS Test and Trace, as well as the analytical capability
Remote food safety assessments are useful but cannot replace a physical inspection, according to the Food Standards Agency.
Virtual food hygiene inspections are being used in the United Kingdom but local authorities cannot give a business a food hygi
City food inspectors from Shenzhen and Xian, China report finding traces of the COVID-19 virus on the packaging for imported chicken wings and shrimp.
China in June stepped up its scrutiny of imported food, saying the possibility that it could spread
Officials in Ireland are investigating an outbreak of cryptosporidium linked to a salad that has affected more than 40 people.
The Health Service Executive’s (HSE) Department of Public Health East was notified of an outbreak of cryptosporidiosis in t
Throughout the 21st century, it is estimated that the number of foodborne illnesses increased due to continual change in production methods, processes, and practices, as well as by changes in consumption habits. According to World Health Organization
The coronavirus pandemic disrupted the entire UK food supply system.
We rely on a complex international network of highly efficient supply chains to help put food on our plates.
But due to measures to control coronavirus, supermarkets ran out of esse
The Environment Secretary Michael Gove appointed Henry Dimbleby to conduct this year-long review, and to then set out my recommendations within six months of its completion. Government will then publish an ambitious, multi-disciplinary National Food
Today, amidst COVID-19 lockdown and growing pandemic, global food value chains stand disrupted across all commodities. Food safety has been a growing global concern that is only set to rise in this COVID world. It is in these times that it has become
