Eight companies were awarded the highest accolade of three gold stars in the prestigious annual event organised by the influential UK Guild of Fine Food, with 80 local companies securing 244 gold stars for 180 products.
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The European Commission’s Joint Research Centre (JRC) has developed a new metabolomics fingerprinting methodology that, the researchers say, could be used to authenticate organic food products.
The Food Safety Authority of Ireland (FSAI) today reported that nine Closure Orders were served on food businesses during the month of July for breaches of food safety legislation, pursuant to the FSAI Act, 1998. The Enforcement Orders were issued by
Dutch food and consumer product safety authority NVWA decided to test chicken meat for fipronil after all. Admin from company ChickFriend showed that the company used the toxic insecticide at a number of meat companies too, AD reports.
As the Scottish Government requested confirmation that it would be able to continue its ban on growing genetically modified (GM) crops in the country following Brexit, NFU Scotland yesterday called for any decision to be based on a rational assessmen
Global food retailers turning to companies which use technology to track food supply chains. In demand by multinational retailers and food producers, Inscatech and its agents scour supply chains around the world hunting for evidence of food industry
The European Union has notified British authorities as a precautionary measure that some eggs contaminated with an insecticide may have entered the country. Food safety authorities in France, Sweden and Switzerland have also been notified by the EU.
A federally funded study has found that 20 per cent of sausages sampled from grocery stores across Canada contained meats that weren't on the label.
After she completed her studies in pharmacy in Austria and a term abroad in Germany to specialise in toxicology, Anna Holderbaum enrolled as a Marie Curie Early Stage Researcher at the Institute for Global Food Security, Queen’s University Belfast in
Hundreds of thousands of Dutch eggs have been declared unsuitable for consumption as they contained high quantities of fipronil, an insecticide that is toxic to humans.
Customs authorities detained more than 41 million fake and counterfeit products at the EU's external border in 2016 with a value of more than €670m.
Exposure to pyrrolizidine alkaloids in food, in particular for frequent and high consumers of tea and herbal infusions, is a possible long-term concern for human health due to their potential carcinogenicity, say EFSA’s experts.
The Food Standards Agency (FSA) recently published a paper outlining progress with the “Regulating our Future” programme*. Institute of Food Science & Technology, the independent qualifying body for food professionals in Europe, recognises the paper
GP/EFSA/NUTRI/2017/01 – Tasking Grants - Entrusting preparatory work for the safety assessment on Novel Foods and Traditional Foods from third countries
Novel foods (NF) are foods and food ingredients that have not been used for human consumption to
An outbreak of Salmonella has highlighted the risk associated with working in microbiology laboratories, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
The European Food Safety Authority, the European Medicines Agency and the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control are concerned about the impact of use of antibiotics on the increase in antibiotic-resistant bacteria. A new report from the
Two men have been jailed for their roles in a conspiracy to pass off 30 tonnes of horsemeat as beef – a plot “motivated by greed” that was one part of the wide-ranging horsemeat scandal that came to light in 2013.
This week a horse from rural Galway known as ‘Carnesella Lady’ was central to the latest trail in the ongoing saga of the European wide horsemeat scam.
The Institute for Global Food Security at Queen’s University would like to introduce you to an exciting part-time postgraduate online programme currently accepting applications for October 2017 enrolment which may be of interest to you or your staff:
Article by Chris Elliott
I generally spend the first week of July in South East Asia discussing food security in the region. This year I spent the week discussing rice. Complex issues around climate change, pest control, and arsenic and cadmium conta
