A consumer group has expressed concern that proposed food safety reforms could see more inspections carried out by third parties employed by businesses.
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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
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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
The FSA published a new Science Report by its Chief Scientific Adviser Professor Guy Poppy today. In his sixth Science Report, Professor Poppy looks at data science and how it is helping the Agency to achieve its core objective of becoming a data dri
Premium crisp manufacturer Tyrrells has played down warnings over the cancer-causing chemical acrylamide, after an investigation revealed its ‘sweet potato lightly salted crisps’ contained almost 2.5 times the recommended EU limit for acrylamide.
By Chris Elliott
On a slightly wet St Patrick’s Day, I was alerted to a new breaking scandal around red meat fraud. Operation Weak Flesh saw over 1,000 police officers conduct raids across Brazil’s massive red meat industry, the world’s biggest in te
The EU is introducing new rules to cut down on ‘food fraud’ and prevent a repeat of the horsemeat scandal, which was first uncovered by Irish authorities four years ago. However there are concerns the regulations don’t go far enough, and that a schem
More than half of us bought a "free from" product during the last three months, according to Kantar Worldpanel. Younger people are leading a trend towards buying products without dairy and gluten in particular. He said that while only about 5% of the
Forty per cent of fresh pork sampled was found to contain livestock associated-MRSA (LA-MRSA), according to a Danish study.
Co. Armagh based meat supplier, Eurostock Foods, which has recently been rebranded as Bawnbua Foods, has today announced new contract wins worth in excess of €11.75m. Over the last three years, Bawnbua Foods has invested €2.35m in its business and pl
Brazil’s rotten meat scandal may have weathered the worst of the storm, but financial losses from the corruption saga could still reach $4.8 billion (bn), Fitch Ratings has claimed.
Scientists have called for a vaccine against campylobacter, to cut the number of contaminated chickens in supermarkets.
This consultation seeks views on the enforcement of rules relating to novel foods for food businesses in England. The aim is to ensure effective, consistent and proportionate enforcement of the new novel foods Regulation (EU) 2015/2283. The updated r
