A Northern Ireland company developing technology to fight food fraud has secured a £2 million investment from a Canadian-born entrepreneur who founded a billion-pound healthcare company.
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For 60-year-old Harnam Kaur, consuming a pack of edible oil she bought from a local shop cost her her sight. After investigation, the Delhi resident came to know that argemone in the oil resulted in the loss of her vision permanently.
Harnam’s case is
A majority of Canadian consumers are concerned that the foods they eat may be counterfeit, a new study by Dalhousie University says.
“The most popular one in Canada is misrepresentation,” said Sylvain Charlebois, dean of the faculty of management at D
This week’s declaration of famine in parts of South Sudan shows that while lettuce and courgette shortages in Europe captured media attention, it is important to keep things in perspective. The rest of the world continues to fight lasting food imbala
Listeria, a common food-borne bacterium, may pose a greater risk of miscarriage in the early stages of pregnancy than appreciated, according to researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Veterinary Medicine studying how pathogens af
The implications of the Brexit referendum have left many in the food industry uncertain of how future food safety assurance will be influenced. Simon Weaver, red24’s Product Risks Commercial Manager, examines the issues.
Recent media reports of contaminated meat do not give the complete picture on the condition of meat entering the food chain, or on the work done by the FSA to ensure that the meat we eat is safe.
Culture independent next generation sequencing (NGS) has been used to characterize the microbiome for recovery of Listeria monocytogenes from naturally contaminated ice cream.
This year’s awards categories showcase the very best that Northern Ireland has to offer and winners will be celebrated at Crowne Plaza Belfast on 24th March 2017. The awards are free to enter and we encourage companies from across the industry to app
Dr Kaye Burgess is a research officer in the Food Safety Department in Teagasc Food Research Centre Ashtown in Dublin. She leads a research programme on the survival and adaptation of foodborne pathogens to environments and processes encountered in t
If the UK produced more of its own food, it could protect consumers and producers from sharp rises and declines in global food prices, a report says. Only 52% of food eaten in the UK comes from British farmers, according to a report published by Morr
Chile's national fisheries and aquaculture service Sernapesca launched an emergency for algal bloom contamination in the Gulf of Penas in the Aysen region and its surrounding areas. The call follows the launch of an investigation last week after two
Climate change is poised to affect the world's food supply in three key ways, experts say.
"There will be impacts on the quantity, quality and location of the food we produce," said Dr. Sam Myers, a medical doctor and senior research scientist studyin
Italy’s Carabinieri arrested 33 suspects in the Calabrian mafia’s Piromalli clan, a criminal enterprise whose illicit dealings allegedly include exporting fake extra virgin olive oil to the United States.
Budget: € 30 000
Approx. launch date: March, 2017
Ref: NP/EFSA/BIOCONTAM/2017/03
Contact e-mail: efsaprocurement@efsa.europa.eu
Background: The present negotiated procedure relates to the 2016 EU Summary Report on zoonoses and food-borne outbr
MEPs have voted in favour of the Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA) between the EU and Canada in Strasbourg today with 408 votes in favour and 254 against.
Increasing demand in the U.S. for year-round access to all foods means more foreign food in grocery stores and that means more foodborne illness outbreaks from imported food.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is tracking the mcr-1 gene in bacteria. This gene can make bacteria resistant to colistin, an antibiotic that is the “last resort” drug for some multidrug-resistant pathogens.
Recent comparative product testing by city-based Consumer Education and Research Centre (CERC), found traces of pesticides and heavy metals in six supposedly-organic brands of rice. Three brands of rice sold as organic had traces of the pesticide chl
Chinese police recently seized 300,000 counterfeit chocolate pieces during the 2017 Lunar New Year worth around 700 RMB ($102) per box, after a wedding candy store owner received complaints from local consumers.
