Following the successful launch and kick-off of EFSA’s first EU-FORA fellowship programme cycle last September, EFSA has already opened the second 12-month round, by publishing two calls for applications as fellow or as hosting site.
EU-FORA is a uni
EFSA’s experts have used an updated scientific approach to reassess the possible long-term adverse effects of the food processing contaminant 3-MCPD on the kidney and male fertility.
Deadline for application: 1 April 2018
The international summer course in One Health will again be offered in 2018 by the University of Copenhagen and Technical University of Denmark.
7 May – 8 June 2018: 5-weeks internet-based module
12 – 17 August
The Irish food and drink sector recorded the eighth consecutive year of export growth in 2017. It was boosted by increased output in key sectors, rising demand in some major markets and, in line with Bord Bia’s Market Diversification Strategy, the em
Researchers have created an online tool which gives dairy farmers and vets the means to closely measure and monitor their antibiotic use.
A salmon farming company has joined forces with traceability experts, creating unique fingerprints to verify the origin of their fish.
The National Food Crime Unit (NFCU) would only take on investigatory powers on top of its intelligence gathering activities if it received ministerial support and between £4M and £5M a year of extra government funding, it emerged at the FSA’s Board m
An invasive pufferfish is causing havoc for Mediterranean fishers, and the toxin it carries is turning up in native shellfish.
Plastic microbeads can no longer be used in cosmetics and personal care products in the UK, after a long-promised ban came into effect on Tuesday. The ban initially bars the manufacture of such products and a ban on sales will follow in July.
The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has issued guidance to the food industry detailing how it plans to enforce the FDA Food Safety Modernization Act and describing the “sweeping changes” as “the biggest overhaul of the nation’s food safety laws
Cornell researchers in the Department of Food Science found exposure to light-emitting diode (LED) sources for even a few hours degrades the perceived quality of milk more so than the microbial content that naturally accumulates over time.
During preschool snack time a boy refused his snack. His teacher encouraged him to eat. He told the teacher he could not eat the crackers because they had peanut butter on them. The teacher recalled that the boy had a peanut allergy and had accidenta
Silicon Valley is developing an obsession with untreated, unfiltered water, according to The New York Times.
Three UK supermarket chains have published figures on the amount of antibiotics used by their farm suppliers, in an effort to cut use of the medicines.
The U.K. government will extend its Brexit transition regime to help farmers cope with the loss of European Union subsidies when the country leaves the bloc in 2019 in a move that will add billions of pounds to the cost of the split.
Little information is available to the public in the U.S. or Canada more than six weeks into a deadly E. coli O157:H7 outbreak linked to romaine lettuce.
At least a dozen people have been sickened by E. coli O157 with a link to Sainsbury’s burgers.
Paris prosecutors with expertise in public health have launched an investigation into a salmonella outbreak associated with an international recall of baby milk sold by Lactalis, one of the world’s largest dairies based in western France.
Food safety practices that Americans take for granted -- washing hands with soap, refrigeration, and not cutting raw meat and vegetables on the same surface without disinfection -- are not widely practiced in other places around the world, and resear
A network managed by FAO and WHO is involved in trying to prevent further infections in the Salmonella outbreak from Lactalis infant formula.
