Twelve food businesses, including five takeaways and the kitchen of a pre-school in Dublin were closed last month over breaches of food safety legislation.
The Food Safety Authority of Ireland (FSAI) published the May closure orders served by HSE envi
EFSA has launched a call to renew membership of two of its Scientific Panels: the Panel on Food Additives and Nutrient Sources Added to Food (ANS) and the Panel on Food Contact Materials, Enzymes, Flavourings and Processing Aids (CEF).
The ANS Panel
Food Safety Talk, a bi-weekly podcast for food safety nerds, by food safety nerds. The podcast is hosted by Ben Chapman and barfblog contributor Don Schaffner, Extension Specialist in Food Science and Professor at Rutgers University. Every two weeks
Working with neighbourhood countries contributes to building trust in the safety of foods made in the EU, according to the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA).
Glanbia Cheese Ltd. is seeking to appoint a QA Technician based at the Magheralin site to work within the Quality department on a fixed term contract for 12 months.
The successful candidate must have:
Essential:
With a shared border that is more than 5,500 miles long, Canada and the United States have a lot in common — including a shared food supply. So it is no surprise that Canadian food safety agencies and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) have
About the Role:
This role will perform microbiological analysis of raw material, in-process and finished product as well as stability and development samples according to the relevant specifications. Documentation and reporting should be conducted in
Food Crime Unit review could see radical change
The Food Standards Agency (FSA) is about to commission an independent review of its National Food Crime Unit (NFCU), set up in December 2014 in the wake of the 2013 horsemeat scandal, which could see it
Yesterday (01/06/16), General Mills announced a voluntary recall of 10 million pounds of flour after 38 people in 20 U.S. states fell ill due to Eschericia coli.
Campylobacter rates in fresh chickens sold in the UK are continuing to fall due to the number of retailers removing neck skin. Neck skins of whole birds sold in retail are now heavily trimmed, removing the area of highest campylobacter contamination.
As they struggle to deal with more extreme weather, a range of food crops are generating more of chemical compounds that can cause health problems for people and livestock who eat them, scientists have warned.
More than 400 people have been sickened by norovirus in Denmark by lettuce from France. Statens Serum Institut, DTU Fødevareinstituttet and Fødevarestyrelsen (SSI, the Technical University of Denmark and the Danish Veterinary and Food Administration)
Antimicrobial chemicals used as processing aids may lead to false-negative results in pathogen testing, according to a study.
The FSA have released their latest results from their survey of campylobacter on fresh shop-bought chickens. The results for January to March 2016 continue to show a decrease both in the number of birds with campylobacter on them and those with the h
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The wheels of justice turn slowly, but stomachs will churn rapidly over the toxic and counterfeit food products that police agencies have seized recently in 57 countries.
Care for an appetizer? How about 154 pounds of chicken intestines soaked in form
A "reckless" restaurant owner has been jailed for six years for the manslaughter of a customer who had an allergic reaction to a curry.
Paul Wilson, 38, suffered a severe anaphylactic shock in January 2014 after eating a takeaway containing peanuts fr
Oral administration of certain probiotics reduced uptake of the heavy metal, cadmium, in the intestines of mice, and in a laboratory experiment using human intestinal cells. The research, which might ultimately be applied to improving public health i
Are you a scientist with experience in chemical risk assessment? Do you want to make a difference to European food safety? Then apply to join the European Food Safety Authority’s two Scientific Panels dealing with food ingredients and packaging and b
Damaged equipment at a frozen food plant — described by federal inspectors as being impossible to clean — could be a contributing factor in a Listeriosis outbreak that began in 2013 and is ongoing.
Staff from the Food and Drug Administration inspected
