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The world faces devastating climate change consequences, unless we radically alter our food system, a leading environmentalist has warned.
The consultant who in 2010 said beef he tested was E. coli free when it wasn’t got off Thursday with one year of home detention, three years of probation and 200 hours of community service. He’ll also have to pay a share of $307,000 in restitution.
The United States and Canada have comparable food safety systems, a fact that has now been officially recognized by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA). The food safety systems for Australia and the European Union are likely coming soon.
The FSA is launching a new student programme offering one student a 12 month paid placement from July 2016 for those studying a nutrition discipline. As a nutrition student within the FSA you will be located in the Belfast office within the Standards
EFSA is setting up a working group of international experts to evaluate new scientific evidence on the potential effects of bisphenol A (BPA) on the immune system. EFSA is conducting the review following publication of a report that raises concerns a
The project BIOSAFE is a doctoral programme developed as a joint action of the Doctoral Schools of Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore and Università degli Studi di Milano. It is specifically targeted to higher education in food safety, with particu
Salmonella has sickened 39 people in Sweden with a link to sausage.
Company officials knew a Dole salad plant was contaminated with Listeria for a year and a half before they shut it down — then they only took action after the U.S. and Canadian governments traced a deadly outbreak to the facility.
The source of Salmonella which has sickened more than 300 people in Australia has been traced to a factory in South Australia.
Food hygiene inspections in the UK have fallen by 15% since 2003, research shows - with experts warning of risks to public health.
The number of inspections, which are handled by local authorities, fell from 307,526 in 2003-04 to 260,765 in 2014-15,
Risk communication is one of the core activities of the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA), a challenging task in the light of the diverse nature of the European Union's population. Moreover, EFSA has to meet the communication needs of a broad sta
According to new information released by the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA), the consumption of apricot kernels could result cyanide poisoning.
Apricots contain a naturally-occurring compound known as amygdalin. The compound lives inside aprico
This publication provides a concise round-up of statistics on food covering the economic, social and environmental aspects of the food we eat. It contains statistics for different time periods, but always using latest available data at the time of re
The food recall gallery is back with a bang this week with pathogen findings and (possible) foreign body contamination dominating the headlines.
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.
CDC’s annual report card shows that foodborne infections continue to be an important public health problem in the United States.
The rate of salmonella infections decreased by about nine percent in 2013 compared with the previous three years, bringing
Increasing speed and decreasing costs of genome sequencing technology is having a ‘transformative effect’ on foodborne disease outbreak investigation, according to the UK Food Standards Agency’s chief scientific adviser.
It was announced today that a new three year Innovation Partnership programme in food quality and safety has been signed between Enterprise Ireland and University College Dublin.
A Salmonella outbreak which has sickened more than 150 people in Australia has been linked to raw mung bean sprouts.
