The ESRC have announced funding for 22 new research projects under the ESRC Strategic Networks call with £3 million funding allocated from the Global Challenges Research Fund (GCRF).
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The Department of Agriculture is advising poultry farmers to be vigilant after an outbreak of bird flu was confirmed in a turkey flock in England. An early warning system has now been put in place with Birdwatch Ireland, the National Parks and Wildli
Unsafe levels of a paint thinner chemical have been found in gravy granules sold at Lidl, the Food Standards Agency (FSA) has said. The contamination affected two batches of Kania Gravy Granules, which were found to contain xylene.
European experts have noted an increasing trend of listeriosis since 2008, but they highlight that the number of affected people stabilised from 2014 to 2015. Infections were mostly reported in people over 64 years of age. These are some of the findi
Agriculture Minister Michelle McIlveen today announced that research institutions in Northern Ireland are to benefit from £1.7million of new funding awarded through the DAERA Collaborative Research Fund (CRF) initiative.
The Food Standards Agency Chair Heather Hancock is inviting applications to fill the post of Chair of the Advisory Committee on the Microbiological Safety of Food (ACMSF). This post will become vacant on 31 March 2017. The ACMSF is the independent ex
Use of traceback and predictive modelling tools created by the German Federal Institute for Risk Assessment (BfR) will be expanded under a partnership with the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA).
As the year comes to an end, many of us are busy preparing year end reports. Since 1988, the Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS), the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) have conducted a periodic nat
The traditional British fish supper could be replaced by the likes of squid as the waters around the UK's shores grow warmer, say government scientists. Squid and fish that thrive in warmer waters, such as sardines and anchovies, are flourishing arou
Reduction targets for Shiga toxin producing E. coli (STEC) O157 and Salmonella have been missed by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
Leo A. Knowles, president of ConAgra Grocery Products Company LLC, appeared in federal court in Albany, GA, Tuesday to put a human face on the corporate entity pleading guilty to a criminal misdemeanor charge of shipping peanut butter contaminated wi
Judith Boyle holds a BSc. (Hons.) in chemistry and a MSc. in petroleum geo-chemistry.She has worked in The State Laboratory since 2008 and has been working on the analysis of Dioxins in feed for the past 12 months. The State Laboratory is the nationa
Less than 10% of chicken and just over 3% of turkey sold fresh in retail stores were found to be contaminated with Campylobacter, according to a Finnish study.
An updated version of a restricted web-based communication platform to ensure early detection and coordinated response to multi-state outbreaks has been launched.
JOINT FAO/WHO EXPERT MEETING ON MICROBIOLOGICAL RISK ASSESSMENT (JEMRA)
Background
The Joint FAO/WHO Expert Meeting on Microbiological Risk Assessment (JEMRA) began in 2000 and is an international scientific expert group that is administered jointly
A recent report conducted by seafood watchdog group Oceana found that one in five seafood samples tested worldwide were mislabeled, from restaurants selling endangered whale as fatty tuna to caviar that wasn’t caviar at all.
To reign in this sort of r
he FSA has published its annual report on progress towards implementation of the UK Multi-Annual National Control Plan (MANCP). The report, which is based on data collected for 2015, shows that overall level of compliance in all sectors in the UK was
European and U.S. government and trade officials say they have been lobbying hard against a draft Chinese regulation on food imports, worried it would hamper billions of dollars of shipments to the world's No.2 economy of everything from pasta to cof
The aim of this study was to identify and characterise Bacillus cereus from a unique national collection of 564 strains associated with 140 strong-evidence food-borne outbreaks (FBOs) occurring in France during 2007 to 2014. Starchy food and vegetabl
Poultry producers have been ordered to keep their birds indoors for 30 days, in a bid to protect the industry from a “devastating” outbreak of avian flu.
