The Food Standards Agency has published a revised and improved version of its Meat Industry Guidance, following a review by the FSA and a panel of agency and industry representatives.
The guide to food hygiene and other regulations for the UK meat ind
EFSA is to assess the findings of a report by the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) which concludes that the herbicide glyphosate is probably carcinogenic to humans.
, which was published this week, will be considered as
Abilasha Ramkumar is a postdoctoral fellow in the chemical food safety department at Teagasc Food Research Centre, Ashtown and she works on the development of an LC-MS /MS method for determining quarternary ammonium compounds in milk.
Abilasha recent
Epidemiological investigations of outbreaks of hepatitis A virus (HAV) and norovirus (NoV) infections in the European Union/European Economic Area (EU/EEA) in the last five years have highlighted frozen berries as a vehicle of infection. Given the in
Routine epidemiological work still has an important role to play in this modern age of whole-genome sequencing, sustainability practices in the food industry aren’t hampering safety procedures, and the jury is still out on whether reducing sodium in
The flavouring substance p-Mentha-1,8-dien-7-al (also called “Perilla aldehyde”) has been shown to be genotoxic (damaging to DNA) in a new study on animals, evaluated by EFSA’s experts. Under EFSA’s process for the safety assessment of food flavourin
A quarter of samples of dried oregano have been found to contain other ingredients in the latest in "a long line of food frauds".
Professor Chris Elliott, the Director of the Institute for Global Food Security who authored the report into food fraud
The 2014 Rapid Alert System for Food and Feed (RASFF) Annual Report, published on 30 June, reveals that in 2014, 3157 notifications of food or feed risks were reported to the European Commission via this EU-wide alert system, representing a 25% incre
This year’s winner of the safefood Student prize was Rebecca Jenkinson, Queens University Belfast. The prize was awarded for an essay on the theme, 'Food: Is it safe to eat?'. In the following interview, Rebecca, a graduate of the Food Quality, Safet
The UN Food & Agriculture Organisation together with the Codex Alimentarius Commission hosted a workshop titled “Food Safety and Globalisation, -Opportunities, Challenges and Solutions” for students of the DIT MSc. Food Safety Management.
They were a
FoodDrinkEurope has carried out a survey amongst many of its members, capturing current and future actions they develop to counter climate change.
Food security, one of the biggest challenges of the coming years, will increasingly be affected by clim
The ETP "Food for Life" aims to step change the innovation power and impact of the European food industry, to the benefit of a sustainable society.
The ETP "Food for Life" will deliver a pre-competitive research strategy and ensure a collaborative ap
Jonathan Stirling recently attended the LabWare Europe 2015 Customer Education Conference in Sorrento, Italy. In the article below, he gives an overview of his visit. Funding for this visit was provided under the safefood Training & Mobility Programm
A Framework for Assessing Effects of the Food System describes the U.S. food system and provides a brief history of its evolution into the current system. This report identifies some of the real and potential implications of the current system in ter
To protect consumers from foodborne illness, produce farmers should wait 24 hours after a rain or irrigating their fields to harvest crops, according to new research published June 26 in the journal Applied and Environmental Microbiology.
Rain or irri
Over 170 scientists with a wide range of expertise have started their three-year term as experts for EFSA’s eight scientific Panels and Scientific Committee.
Members of four panels gathered at EFSA this week for their inaugural meeting: the Panel on
There is an almost infinite amount of interesting reading material at the touch of a button these days, but what happens if you’re blind or visually impaired?
“It's important that information is imparted and provided to people in a format they're able
Ita White is a trainer consultant in the Food Industry Development Department,Teagasc.
Where do you work?
I work in the Food Industry Development Department and we're based within the Research Programme in Teagasc. A key part of our job is to transfer
Niamh is a research fellow in the Biomedical Diagnostic Institute and Applied Biochemistry Group led by Professor Richard O’Kennedy and based in the DCU School of Biotechnology.
For the past few years, I have worked on a project called BioliSME [proje
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