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Drive out fear. If you are familiar with the work of legendary management consultant, W. Edwards Deming, this phrase is nothing new.
At the root of it, food safety is about the creation and handling of quality products using quality inputs and qualit
The Food Standards Agency is inviting tenders to carry out a microbial evaluation of poultry and pork Mechanically Separated Meat (MSM) compared with fresh cuts of meat, meat preparations and minced meat products.
This interim report sets out the current weaknesses of supply chain networks in the UK (ahead of the final report to be published in spring 2014), and suggests measures that can be taken to address them.
Professor Chris Elliott, Professor of Food Saf
The European FVO (Food and Veterinary Office) have just released the work programme for 2014.
Salmonella typing results from public health national reference laboratories in the EU are ‘encouraging’, according to the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC).
The first call for applications opens on Wednesday 11th December, 2013. For details, visit EU Horizon 2020.
InterTradeIreland has developed the Horizon 2020 web portal and accompanying mobile Apps to encourage North/South collaboration across the island bringing together innovative SMEs, researchers, academic institutes and other organisations with the aim
CDC has released a new update to Solve the Outbreak, the popular, free iPad app that puts you in the shoes of a member of the Epidemic Intelligence Service. The app now has six newly released outbreaks, giving you lots of opportunities to have fun. D
Dr David Lee of the Public Analyst Laboratory, Cork, describes his experiences on the safefood Training and Mobility Programme.
A report by the EU Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety has called for stronger policing of the food industry and tougher penalties for fraud.
Reporting on nanotechnology has tailed off in the media in the past five years – and so has consumer concern over its safety, according to a new report from the German Federal Institute for Risk Assessment (BfR).Continue reading
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Food and Drink Industry Ireland have launched a practical industry guide on labelling to help companies comply with the first major overhaul of Europe's food labelling rules in 30 years. The guide was launched at a major industry seminar in the Cityw
Twenty-five years ago minister Edwina Currie sparked a scare over salmonella in eggs and had to resign amid outrage from farmers and plummeting sales. The panic has shaped the way we think about food safety.
There are foods that people instinctively
The Animal Health and Veterinary Laboratories Agency (AHVLA) has identified the presence of Livestock-Associated Meticillin Resistant Staphylococcus Aureus (LA-MRSA) in poultry on a farm in East Anglia.
LA-MRSA is not the same as those that cause the
The jobholder as member of the GMO Unit will provide scientific and administrative support for the organisation and management of the tasks of the GMO unit, including the support to the activities of the GMO Panel with regard to the scientific evalua
James Baker, the FSA’s Social Media Manager, explains how social media can help us identify norovirus outbreaks much earlier than labs confirm the cases.
Beyond answering questions and concerns, providing updates quickly during incidents, and raising
A bacteriophage (phage) which is mostly specific for E. coli O157 has been isolated to kill the pathogen on beef.
The FSA and the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC), under the multi-agency Global Food Security programme, are inviting research proposals for projects related to understanding the challenges of the food system. Joint funding of up to £1.87m
By blocking a protective enzyme in the microscopic parasite C. parvum, scientists have made it vulnerable to its host’s immune system.
In the developing world, Cryptosporidium parvum has long been the scourge of freshwater. A decade ago, it announced
