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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(L-R: Dr Kieran Jordan (Teagasc), Dr Wayne Anderson (FSAI), Ms Dara Leong (Teagasc), Dr Gary McMahon (Moy Park), Dr Áine Regan (UCD) and Dr John Holah (Holchem Laboratories Ltd, UK))
New processing technologies and the benefits of whole genome sequen
“The food industry needs to work harder to keep up with consumer trends and many existing brands need to change their ways.” That’s according to Dr Kenneth McKenzie, Strategic Planning Director with Dublin-based ad and marketing agency Target McConne
One of the biggest challenges for the food and drink industry in Northern Ireland is currency movement, according to Michael Bell, Executive Director of the Northern Ireland Food & Drink Association (NIFDA).
“The average net margin for most food manu
The island of Ireland has a massive opportunity in the agri-food sector, as our abundance of grass and temperate climate are the envy of other countries, according to broadcaster Ella McSweeney. If we don’t protect farmers and biodiversity, and if we
Dr Declan J Bolton is a Principal Research Officer, Food Safety Department, Teagasc Food Research Centre, Ashtown, Dublin 15.
Verocytotoxigenic E. coli (VTEC), also called Shiga toxin-producing E. coli (STEC), are now one of the most common causes of
(L-R: Prof Francis Butler, UCD; Prof Lisa Alban, University of Copenhagen; and Dr Joost Smid University of Utrecht)
How can we optimise meat inspections for Salmonella? Or trace bacteria back along the food chain if an outbreak erupts? And how can we
The Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine, Simon Coveney, TD, Ministers of State Tom Hayes TD and Ann Phelan TD today announced plans for a new ten year strategy for the agri food sector, aptly named Food Wise 2025.
Food Wise 2025 was officia
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Storage times and CO2 content in packaging are the two main factors that influence the effect of temperature on histamine formation, the main temperature – dependent hazard. Scientists have identified combinations of these two factors that meet the E
