MANY IRISH water supplies need continuous monitoring to give early warning of pollution or bacterial contamination. Automated monitoring could help reduce health risks associated with these events.
Today marks the opening of a research unit at Dublin
The European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) and the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) have published their annual report on zoonoses (1) and food-borne outbreaks in the European Union for 2009. The report shows Salmonella cases
As the increasing number food scares causes consumers to question the safety of everyday food items, researchers at Queen's University Belfast have completed the first ever analysis of all the food
The detection of radiation in food in Japan following the devastating earthquake is more serious than initially feared, said the World Health Organisation (WHO) today.
But the European Union said there were no current health risks to the region’s co
Based on data collected by the European Antimicrobial Resistance Surveillance Network (EARS-Net) and the former EARSS, the present study describes the trends in antimicrobial susceptibility patterns and occurrence of invasive infections caused by Esc
Please visit http://www.qub.ac.uk/sites/ASSET2011/ to view the programme and register.
Food Integrity and Traceability Conference
The ASSET Research Centre (Queen's University Belfast) in collaboration with safefood are delighted to announce a maj
TIGHT restrictions in Northern Ireland on the movement of cattle born before 1996 to ensure no BSEinfected animals enter the food chain will not be introduced in the Republic.
Earlier this week the British government placed restrictions on these anim
80 per cent of consumers are unable to identify the types and proportions of foods needed for a healthy balanced diet, according to a new survey, Food and You conducted by the UK Food Standards Agency (FSA).
Based on more than 3,000 face-to-face int
New guidelines will soon be available to helping research teams throughout Europe to communicate the results of their projects more effectively.
The ‘best practice’ guidelines have come out of AgriFoodResults, an EU-funded project coordinated by the
Food contaminated with teeth, zips and washers were among thousands of complaints dealt with by the Food Safety Authority of Ireland (FSAI) last year.
According to its annual report for 2010, nearly 11,000 queries and complaints were handled by the F
Europe's top communicators of agri-food research were in the spotlight at the finals of the Communication Star 2011 competition, which took place in Brussels, Belgium on 1 March. The competition recognised EU-funded agri-food research projects that h
In a statement published today, the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) concludes that two recent publications on the safety of artificial sweeteners, namely a carcinogenicity study in mice (Soffritti et al., 2010[1]) and an epidemiological study o
A new strategy browser game - the "Power of research" has been launched. Supported by the European Commission, "Power of Research" has been developed to inspire young Europeans to pursue scientific careers and disseminate interesting up-to-date scien
EFSA has published an evaluation of factors associated with Salmonella contamination of chicken carcasses. The report, based on data from an EU-wide baseline survey, shows that the risk for contamination depends on slaughter processes and varies acro
From July, only animals over six years of age will be compulsorily tested for the disease.
The move from the current 48-month limit will
22/02/2011
By Evelyn Ring
LEADING chef and television presenter Clodagh McKenna has warned that the Government’s U-turn on genetically modified (GM) foods will damage Ireland’s reputation. Agriculture Minister Brendan Smith will travel to Brussels
Source:http://www.epa.ie/news/pr/2011/name,30630,en.html
Date released: Feb 17 2011, 11:00 PM
There has been a 50 per cent reduction in the detection of E.coli in Irish public drinking water in the last two years, according to a new report released t
The first hint of catastrophe came a quarter of a century ago. In October 1987, David Brown of The Sunday Telegraph described “a mystery brain disease [which] is killing Britain’s dairy cows
These days, we're increasingly concerned with the origins of our food. We like to know that our eggs are free range, our fish is from a sustainable source and we may want to choose organic vegetables, or those grown locally. For these reassurances, w
MEPs will condemn the use of EU taxpayers’ money to subsidise industrial pig farming over small family farms at an especially convened meeting in Brussels, and will question: 1. the use of antibiotics in industrial pig farming linked to the spread o
