The Food Safety Authority of Ireland (FSAI) has published the number and breakdown of food alerts and food allergen alerts issued in 2016. Last year, 39 food alerts and 28 food allergen alerts were issued, as compared to 31 and 36, respectively in 20
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Food fraud is rife around the world, the main aim being to make more money by fooling consumers. The practice has become so rife that the US Pharmacopeial Convention has created a food fraud database to help protect brands and detect instances of adu
WHO has published its first ever list of antibiotic-resistant "priority pathogens" – a catalogue of 12 families of bacteria that pose the greatest threat to human health.
A degree of confusion does exist at consumer level regarding the date marks that appear on food labels, according to the Food Safety Authority of Ireland’s Wayne Anderson.
Nearly 1 in 4 U.S. citizens gets food poisoning every year, but very few report it. Twitter communications between the public and the proper government authorities could improve foodborne illness reporting as well as the steps that follow, according
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This is a technical report of a research project funded by safefood to investigate the potential food safety, economic and environmental impacts of climate change on the dairy production chain on the island of Ireland. To achieve this, a
Asda is to sell free-range dairy milk in a first for a major UK retailer in a move that aims to help reconnect consumers with producers. The milk, which goes on sale on Wednesday, will carry the Pasture Promise logo which guarantees that it comes fro
Millions of UK eggs will temporarily lose their free-range status after hens were forced to spend weeks inside barns as part of emergency bird flu measures. Since December, poultry has had to be kept indoors under government orders to prevent the spr
The Health and Safety Authority in the Republic of Ireland is to begin a month-long intensive farm inspection campaign on Wednesday March 1st.
The MSC Scholarship Research Program is open to undergraduate and postgraduate students studying problems and solutions in fisheries science and management and the integrity of the seafood supply chain. Up to £4,000 per project is available for trave
Irish processor Dawn Farms is to create 150 new jobs over the next five years at its Meat Science & Innovation Centre as part of a €25 million investment programme.
A grant scheme worth almost £900,000 to help stimulate innovation in Northern Ireland’s agri-food industry has reopened, the Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs has announced.
The Research Challenge Fund (RCF) provides funding fo
GFSR Interviews Walmart’s Vice President Of Food Safety, Frank Yiannas. Walmart serves more than 200 million customers around the world every week, making it the world’s largest food retailer.
A strong food safety culture has been sought by food manufacturers, processors and packers around the world for a number of years now, and it continues to be discussed and debated at board level within these organisations without a clear path as to h
The New York State Food Laboratory increased testing of food and beverage samples for health hazards, purity and accuracy of labeling by 10% last year.
Sampling was up from 61,000 tests in 2015 to 67,000 in 2016. Governor Andrew M. Cuomo said lab test
DNA test shows Subway sandwiches could contain just 50% chicken (Canada). Marketplace had chicken from 5 major fast food restaurants tested. A DNA analysis of the poultry in several popular grilled chicken sandwiches and wraps found at least one fast
The need for a new approach to food production and an urgent need for people to reconnect with their food, were the key themes of The City Food Lecture 2017 held on 21 February 2017.
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The government of Canada’s announcement this week of changes to its food and drug regulations to permit irradiation of ground beef was not a surprise. It was a long time coming, though, with industry having requested the change in 1998.
Bacteria found in humans, animals and food continue to show resistance to widely used antimicrobials, says the latest report on antimicrobial resistance (AMR) in bacteria by the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) and the European Centre for Diseas
An increase in Salmonella Chester cases each summer could point to persistent sources of contamination in Morocco and other West African countries, according to researchers.
