EFSA's Scientific Committee and Emerging Risks (SCER) and Communication (COM) Units have launched on 4th May an open consultation on a draft ‘Guidance on Communication of Uncertainty in Scientific Assessments’.
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This Call for Proposals aims to identify organisations to which tasks falling within the mission of the Food Ingredients and Packaging Unit can be entrusted by EFSA.
The multistate outbreak of E. coli O157:H7 HUS infections that is linked to romaine lettuce has grown again. Now 121 people in 25 states have been sickened by this pathogenic bacteria. One person, in California, has died.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture has published its proposals on a national standard for the disclosure of GMOs, or bioengineered food.
The dairy industry in the U.S. has been urged to finish the phase-out of phthalates in plastic and rubber as the FDA is accused of being ‘asleep at the switch’.
A position of a Professor for Food Quality Assurance with special focus on food safety, food hygiene as well as on quality and risk management is currently open at the Department of Food Sciences and Technology, BOKU - University of Natural
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A position of a Professor for Food Technology with special focus on food processing/engineering is currently open at the Department of Food Sciences and Technology, BOKU - University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences Vienna, Austria. This perman
The next cycle of this Diploma will commence in UCC on October 5th 2018. It is a two-year part-time course that is run over 11 Friday/Saturday sessions from October to May each year.
EFSA has assessed the safety of green tea catechins from dietary sources, following concerns regarding their possible harmful effects on the liver.
The Food Safety Authority of Ireland (FSAI) today published a report from its Scientific Committee which evaluates the consumption of fluoride from the Irish diet.
Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba is trialling a blockchain platform for supply chain tracking in bid to prevent food fraud.
he Food Standards Agency’s National Food Crime Unit (NFCU) is looking for three highly motivated and enthusiastic individuals to join the team as Intelligence Officers (one in the Intelligence Development team, one in the Source Management team and o
The ongoing outbreak is the largest of its kind since the deadly 2006 E. coli outbreak traced to fresh spinach, public health officials said.
BASF Corporation and arc-net, are collaborating to use blockchain technology to capture and analyze sustainability parameters in livestock production along the value chain.
safefood is running free training courses for food testing laboratories across the island of Ireland during 2018.
Chemistry Course: Uncertainty of Measurement (1 Day Course)
- Belfast: 19th June 2018
- Dublin 21st June 2018
- Cork 26th June 2018
Microbiology Co
safefood have launched the 2018 series of workshops for small and medium-sized food businesses in association with Teagasc entitled ‘Knowledge is Power: What you need to know to produce safe food for the consumer’. These workshops will provide practi
Friday 15th June 2018 | Castleknock Hotel – Dublin 15
safefood are hosting an event to assist food business SMEs with various aspects of their business in particular food safety. The event will include presentations from safefood, the Local Enterprise
Tracy Doherty, Senior Advisor on Food Hygiene with the Food Standards Agency in Northern Ireland talks to The Food Chain about Regulating Our Future.
The Food Standards Agency (FSA) is responsible for ensuring that an effective regulatory regime is in
British retail giant Marks and Spencer has announced a new campaign that “shines a spotlight” on its beef traceability standards.
French has banned "misleading" phrases containing meat and dairy-related words such as “sausage” and “milk" from vegetarian and vegan food packets.
