Food Standards Scotland said a sample from a batch of Lanark White, made by Lanarkshire-based Errington Cheese, has tested positive for E. coli O157.
All Posts (4451)
Sort by
The foundation of HACCP is based on identifying everything that can go wrong (hazards) with regards to food safety and your products and processes and then putting a strategy in place to stop or reduce (to a safe level) that hazard from happening. Ha
Researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have identified the protein that norovirus uses to invade cells. The discovery, in mice, provides new ways to study a virus notoriously hard to work with and may lead to treatments
Nuts and seeds were the highest recalled commodity in Q2 making up almost half of total recalls in Europe, according to Stericycle ExpertSOLUTIONS..
Continue reading.
Turns out bacteria may transfer to candy that has fallen on the floor no matter how fast you pick it up.
Rutgers researchers have disproven the widely accepted notion that it’s okay to scoop up food and eat it within a “safe” five-second window.
Background
Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR) is considered one of the major public health challenges of this century. AMR organisms are detected with increasing frequency in humans, animals and the environment. Studies in some countries have suggested t
The Food Safety Authority of Ireland (FSAI) reported that eleven Closure Orders were served on food businesses during the month of August for breaches of food safety legislation, pursuant to the FSAI Act, 1998 and the EC (Official Control of Foodstuf
In a final ruling issued today, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), banned certain antimicrobial and antiseptic ingredients in over-the-counter soaps, saying they were no more effective in killing germs than plain soap and water, and that they po
Antibiotic use in the pig sector looks set to become the next focus of attention nationally, following reductions achieved by the UK poultry sector.
In the United Kingdom, outbreaks of Campylobacter infection are increasingly attributed to undercooked chicken livers, yet many recipes, including those of top chefs, advocate short cooking times and serving livers pink.
High levels of mercury in fish, aflatoxins – a type of mould – in nuts, and salmonella in fruit and vegetables, were among the most notified food safety risks last year across the EU, according to the Rapid Alert System for Food and Feed (RASFF) 2015
Food safety is a key pillar of the greenhouse operations for each grower. Any type of food safety risk impacts not only the grower operations, but our competitors, and most importantly, consumers.
Anema & Core Limited, trading as Heart and Soul in Rockingham Road, was warned about a number of issues after an inspection on August 25, 2015. The Italian restaurant had opened without registering with the local authority and despite formal and info
Science is key to help give our farmers and agri-food industry a competitive edge in demanding markets, Agriculture Minister Michelle McIlveen told an international conference today.
Sampling analysis certificates are the way by which laboratories report the result of a particular analysis. You may be familiar with these certificates but do you really understand what they mean?
A new federal government report on antibiotic resistance in foodborne pathogens reveals that multidrug resistance in a common Salmonella serotype remains above 40 percent and that this resistance more than doubled between 2011 and 2014.
A project team drawn from the Chartered Institute of Environmental Health (CIEH) and the University of Surrey is carrying out a Systematic Review (FS101098) of the prevalence of food-borne illness due to poor food handling practices in the domestic k
Fresh, or raw, milk transported from farms to dairy processing facilities in tanker trucks contains a diverse mix of microbes, which varies from season to season, report researchers at the University of California, Davis.
Three men have been charged with fraud over the selling of horsemeat in 2012, shortly before it was revealed that UK supermarkets were stocking beef products with traces of horse DNA.
