Consumption of Hydrocyanic Acid (Cyanide) can lead to acute toxicity in some individuals. Symptoms of acute toxicity include headache, dizziness, mental confusion, stupor and cyanosis with twitching and convulsions. Acute toxicity can be fatal.
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France should appoint a “food safety police” and increase fines on those who sell contaminated products to avoid a repeat of the salmonella outbreak at a Lactalis milk factory last year that led to dozens of babies falling ill, lawmakers said.
A post-Brexit border breakdown will result in less availability and higher prices for butter, yogurts and cheese, the UK’s biggest dairy company has warned.
Glanbia, a major Irish dairy producer, is to build a new 130m euro (£115m) mozzarella cheese factory in County Laois in the Republic of Ireland. Glanbia and its US partner, Leprino Foods, are one of Europe's largest mozzarella producers.
Spain’s National Police and Civil Guard have seized hundreds of tons of expired jamón and other meat products that were about to be placed back in the market – in some cases, they were already back on sale.
3 week MOOC delivered by the Institute for Global Food Security at Queen's University Belfast is open for enrolments now. This free online course starts on 13th August 2018.
Learn about the challenges in monitoring and detecting fraud and contaminati
In this webinar, Thomas Spengler, Market Manager for Food, Feed & Beverage Solutions and Léa Heintz, Product Manager for the FoodScreener product platform at Bruker BioSpin, explain how the Honey-Profiling solution can provide a strong tool for the d
WGS is increasingly used in public health and food safety laboratories, but it is used in different ways in different countries and for different purposes.
The Food Safety Authority of Ireland (FSAI) today reported that 8 Closure Orders, 1 Improvement Order, and 1 Prohibition Order were served on food businesses during the month of June for breaches of food safety legislation, pursuant to the FSAI Act,
Australia’s new Country of Origin Labelling (CoOL) rules are now fully in force, with regulators set to embark on 10,000 spot checks to ensure adherence.
The latest round of tests by federal scientists found antibiotic-resistant bacteria on nearly 80 percent of supermarket meat in 2015, according to a new analysis by the Environmental Working Group.
Frozen corn and possibly other frozen vegetables are the likely source of an outbreak of Listeria monocytogenes that has been affecting Austria, Denmark, Finland, Sweden, and the United Kingdom since 2015. Experts used whole genome sequencing to iden
Molecular typing is a way of identifying specific strains of microorganisms, such as bacteria or viruses, by looking at their genetic material. It is mainly used to pinpoint the source of foodborne outbreaks.
EFSA has published its guidance on how to assess the safety of nanoscience and nanotechnology applications. The guidance gives practical suggestions on the types of testing that are needed and the methods that can be applied.
The Food Standards Agency, Food Standards Scotland, Public Health England and Health Protection Scotland are reminding people that most frozen vegetables, including sweetcorn, need to be cooked before eating. This includes if adding them to salads, s
The FSA is using a blockchain system for the first time in the food sector to track the distribution of meat in a cattle slaughterhouse, in the hope that the nascent technology will make it easier to safely keep track of beef supplies.
Public health officials have confirmed that dozens of more people have parasitic infections linked to trays of fresh, pre-cut vegetables that Del Monte Fresh Produce recalled in mid-June.
An outbreak of foodborne botulism in Denmark, with six confirmed cases, has been linked to a homemade dish served at a private party in June. Fødevarestyrelsen (Danish Veterinary and Food Administration) said a sample from the homemade dish was posit
The main objective of this call is to promote capacity building at EU level through joint initiatives between two or preferably more organisations in different Member States, Norway and Iceland, enabling knowledge and expertise transfer and/or exchan
The Food Standards Agency (FSA) has today published its Annual Report and Accounts for the last financial year. It covers our performance and activities in 2017/18 across England, Wales and Northern Ireland at a net cost of £93.2m.
