Ready meals and prepared vegetable supplier Mash Direct has secured a deal, for an undisclosed sum, to supply up-market retailer Waitrose.
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Northern Ireland’s future food supply runs the risk of "serious disruption" because the UK government is "neglecting" the issue in Brexit talks, according to a new report.
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Chair of the Food Standards Agency (FSA) Heather Hancock has announced the appointment of an independent Chair and eight independent members to the Agency’s new Advisory Committee for Social Science (ACSS).
The Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs (DAERA) has released two statistical reports on These are the ‘Statistical Review of Northern Ireland Agriculture 2017’ and ‘Farm Incomes in Northern Ireland 2016/17’
The Food Safety Authority of Ireland (FSAI) today reported that six Closure Orders and one Prohibition Order were served on food businesses during the month of March for breaches of food safety legislation.
A project coordinated by the University of Malta called Suit4food is teaching students how to use technologies such as high water pressure, cold atmospheric plasma and ultraviolet light instead of chemical treatments to make food safe, resulting in l
The Irish Government has been urged to hold an emergency meeting to help farmers struggling with an extensive fodder crisis which, farm groups say, is threatening human as well as animal health.
Delivering the keynote lecture at the Institute for Global Food Security (IGFS) Annual Lecture, Rob Collins was in a positive mood in spite of the ongoing uncertainty surrounding the sector.
BREXIT presents an "opportunity" for the agri-food industry to showcase the “best of British” according to the managing director of supermarket retailer Waitrose.
Delivering the keynote lecture at the Institute for Global Food Security (IGFS) Annual
Spain, Germany, Netherlands and Italy made the most requests last year in a system to deal with fraudulent activities along the agri-food chain. Spain (52), Germany (26), Netherlands (23) and Italy (20) made the most, according to the 2017 annual rep
The poultry industry has called for a joint approach to ensure that all consumers have access to food. Meeting at a House of Commons roundtable event attended by MPs, poultry meat farmers and producers called for an integrated British food security p
University College Cork (UCC), in association with Teagasc has developed a part-time, blended-learning Postgraduate Certificate in Dairy Technology and Innovation. This qualification launched and ran very successfully in 2016/17 is now being run for
The FSA is seeking a Head of Continuous Improvement (CI) to help it to improve its business processes to increase customer satisfaction and efficiency. The role will champion continuous improvement and support a network of Green Belt CI practitioners
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The U.S. Food and Drug Administration, along with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and state and local partners, are investigating a multi-state outbreak of Salmonella Typhimurium illnesses that are linked to dried coconut.
Under the EU-FORA fellowship program of the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA), a survey questionnaire on consumers’ awareness and risk perception of antimicrobial resistance was developed. The questionnaire is anonymous and the results will be in
The World Health Organization says a deadly outbreak linked to tainted food in South Africa is now threatening other African nations, with neighboring Namibia reporting a confirmed case that might be connected.
Northern Ireland food boss, and safefood Knowledge Network Expert Group Member, Michael Bell has been elected vice president of The Institute of Food Science and Technology (IFST) in a landslide victory.
Brazil has temporarily halted production and certification of poultry exports from scandal-hit food processor BRF SA to the European Union, the company and the country’s Agriculture Ministry has said.
