Title of Project: Surveillance of Verocytotoxigenic E. Coli in Ireland: A One Health Approach (VTEC)
Location: Teagasc Food Research Centre, Ashtown, Dublin 15.
Basic Function: The successful candidate will join a research team conducting a National
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Approaches to test the accuracy of claims for samples of roast ground coffee have been reviewed by researchers.
They suggest ways to deal with the key problems such as determining degree of dilution, specific adulterant, geographic origin of the beans
Government has tested 800 samples from around the world to create a benchmark definition for the prized product
In the latest instalment in New Food‘s Fighting Food Fraud series, Digital Editor Roy Manuell speaks to Eoghan Daly, Manager of Forensic and Counter Fraud Services at Crowe Clark Whiltehill LLP.
Heather Hancock, Chairman of the Food Standards Agency, has confirmed that she has appointed Jason Feeney CBE as Chief Executive of the department.
Leatherhead Food Research has said it anticipates EU food safety legislation will be brought into UK law wholesale following Brexit.
Joan Brien is a Food Safety Adviser with TMA Food Safety, with over 10 years’ experience working in Technical/ Quality management roles, implementing food safety standards and providing training & mentoring services across a broad spectrum of industr
The CFIA signed a science-sharing memorandum of understanding with the French food regulator, Agence nationale de sécurité sanitaire de l'alimentation, de l'environnement et du travail (ANSES), at CFIA Headquarters in Ottawa.
The aim of the agreement
Aiming to raise food safety awareness among the public, the fourth Food Safety Week kicked off on Sunday. To keep consumers safe, establishments found violating the food safety norms were closed down at a rate of almost four a day resulting in 1,453
Australia’s food system has grown and evolved over hundreds of years. It is a system that’s served Australians well and underpinned much of our economic prosperity. But it’s a system at risk. And nowhere is the threat larger or more real than in the
A consumer group has expressed concern that proposed food safety reforms could see more inspections carried out by third parties employed by businesses.
Further developments to Northern Ireland’s unique quality control system for the animal feed industry were unveiled at a meeting in Armagh this week. The Food Fortress network is made up of feed producers and importers contributing to a programme of
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.
Pioneering use of satellite images is helping ESRC-funded researchers cutting survey costs in preventing the spread of drug-resistant bacteria.
Fish stocks in the Mediterranean are deteriorating at an alarming rate, with 93 percent of assessed stocks at an over-exploited level, according to studies compiled by the European Commission’s Scientific Technical Economic Committee for Fisheries (S
If your research project can contribute to EFSA’s work (data collection, literature reviews, etc.) and your organisation is on their approved list, they want you to respond to their calls for proposals.
EFSA regularly awards grants or subsidies for p
Develop, implement, and disseminate a Management Strategy Evaluation for the Ecosystem Based Fisheries Management systems for the Waters around Ireland.
- School/Department: School of Biological Sciences
- Reference: 17/105373
- Closing Date: Monday 24 April
Food Standards Scotland's Food Crime Unit has taken to the road to raise public awareness of the different types of food fraud – and how to report it. Defined as any deliberate manipulation, substitution, mislabelling or fraud in relation to food and
China has decided to apply stricter rules on pesticide production and imports to improve food safety and environment protection in the world's most populous country. Chinese Premier Li Keqiang signed a State Council decree on Saturday to promulgate a
The deputy chief food safety officer for the Canadian Food Inspection Agency says collaboration is key to combating food fraud as science is no longer sufficient to stop the problem. Dimitri made the comments during a panel discussion at a two-day co
