Food chain scandals are constantly sprawled across the media, raising real concerns about what is really in the food that we are eating. Most people are guilty of indulging in fast food once in a while, whether it’s enjoying a burger on a Friday nigh
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There’s a great deal of research on the subject, but parsing the hundreds of studies done on GMO safety requires more time and expertise than most of us have. Instead, we look to someone else, someone we trust, to do it for us. And so the question of
Fight Bac! and the Partnership for Food Safety Education have been educating the public about food safety myths and facts for years. Food Poisoning Bulletin recently attended one of their webinars where they addressed those myths. Their latest is: pr
The Food Standards Agency has organised a working group to look at ways to reduce cadmium levels in brown meat from crabs through different processing methods. The group will develop guidance for the crab processing industry to achieve this reduction
The Harvard Food Law and Policy Clinic (FLPC) and the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) are pleased to announce the release of a comprehensive report, The Dating Game: How Confusing Food Date Labels Lead to Food Waste in America.
This report pr
Over sixty companies attended the recent Insight Session held in Bord Bia around Tomorrow’s Shopper – the evolution of the shopper in Ireland and the UK. At the breakfast session, Bord Bia presented our latest research in this area, with two addition
The FSA wants to recruit new-users and super-users. If you are keen to come on board as a UKFSS ‘new–user’ or are an existing user who can act as a source of expertise to support new local authorities coming on-board, then why not think about applyin
This review provides an update on the fruit and vegetable review conducted in 2007. It collates and considers the information available – academic, regulatory, public health – on the health and food safety implications of fruit and vegetables. It foc
The FSA is seeking to recruit up to four Board members who can demonstrate achievement in a Board-level leadership role, a proven ability in strategic planning and in evaluating risk.
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The new members will be appointed by the Secretary of State for He
The safefood Knowledge Networks Presentation Archive lists all the presentations from each Knowledge Network conference since they were launched in 2011. Each conference is aimed at food safety professionals, with a range of national and internationa
Job Title: Post-Doc position in MS-based metabolomics
Starting from: December 1st 2013
Duration: 24 months contract, full-time position
Place of work: Nantes, France
Project background:
DeTECH21 is an EU FP7 Capacity funded project, aiming at providin
The Food Standards Agency is encouraging food business to make the most of their food hygiene rating to help attract customers trade. A toolkit offering guidance, images, logos and web banners is available.
After years of silence, Sysco Corporation employees across North America are finally speaking out about a longstanding practice by the world’s largest food distributor that put the public’s health at risk. Their startling revelations come in response
The bacteria, which cause severe gastrointestinal illness and even death in humans, are spread by consuming contaminated food and water, or by contact with livestock feces in the environment. Cattle are the main reservoir for the bacterium.
The vaccin
The number of antimicrobial-resistant Salmonella serotypes hasn’t increased drastically in recent years, but drug-resistant Salmonella continues to pose a public health threat in the United States, particularly as resistance spreads across classes of
Scientists have figured out how virulent E. coli bacteria block a pathway that would normally protect the gut from infection.
These infections are particularly serious in young children and can result in diarrhea and other complications such as kidney
If wasted food became its own pungent country, it would be the world’s third biggest contributor to climate change.
The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization had previously determined that roughly one-third of food is wasted around the worl
The Food Standards Agency is inviting tenders for research that will help identify how vacuum and modified air packaging will affect the growth and survival of Listeria monocytogenes.
It will also look at how measures to reduce it may conflict with a
The FAO has issued a toolkit for reducing food waste, as it reveals the direct economic cost to food producers stands at $750bn (€561bn) a year, in a new report.
TURKEY - Around 46 per cent of chicken and 58 per cent of beef samples from Ankara markets tested positive for the antibiotic group, quinolones.
