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Updated FSA guidance on the testing of milk for antibiotic residues has been published after a routine review. The review took into account the recommendations made following the European Commission Food and Veterinary Office audit of official contro
The Marine Stewardship Council (MSC) has been undertaking trials of a new seafood traceability tool in response to increasing incidents of fraud in the sector, where non-sustainable fish varieties are being passed off as sustainable species.
At least 14 countries and numerous brands have been affected by possible Salmonella in chocolate products.
The RASFF portal states that a chocolate wafer from the Netherlands, distributed to countries including Ireland and the United Kingdom was foun
Contract Research Officer (Ref: CRO/MD/0815)
Title of Project:
Food for Health Ireland (FHI).- Phase II Programme – Infant Nutrition
Basic Function:
The FHI Glyco-technologist will focus on investigating methods to produce milk oligosaccharides at la
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has released its 2012-2013 National Antimicrobial Resistance Monitoring System (NARMS) Integrated Report. This report replaces FDA’s annual NARMS Executive Summary report and highlights antimicrobial resistance p
Job description
The Delivery Unit is a new team that will lead task and finish projects that are central to delivery of the Food Standards Agency’s strategy, policy and operational delivery. At an early stage of development, there is scope to shape bo
£70m Agri-Tech Catalyst
The £70m Agri-Tech Catalyst offers funding for collaborative projects, taking innovative ideas from any sector or discipline with the potential to benefit the UK Agri-Tech industry.
The 5th round of funding is open to proposal
The effort to improve food safety by clearing wild vegetation surrounding crops is not helping, and in some cases may even backfire, according to a new study led by researchers at the University of California, Berkeley.
The findings, reported Monday,
Reporting to the Director of Quality GII, this role will have responsibility for oversight and management of the QC Microbiology capability development including methods development , Food Safety & HACCP systems development and Hygiene Programs devel
Basic Function: This scientist will have qualifications in agricultural/environmental engineering or environmental chemistry/microbiology or related discipline. The appointee will be the main researcher responsible for the project “Recovering and rec
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
