Give this issue’s food quiz a try and you could be in with the chance of winning a fantastic prize!
Question 1: Which three sauces make up prawn cocktail sauce?
Question 2: Which ingredient causes bread to rise?
Question 3: What condiment is commonly s
Small food producers and food-focused businesses are a key part of the food industry on the island of Ireland. In fact, it is estimated that there are approximately 50,000 business producing food here and around 80% of these are small food producers.
This December, safefood is encouraging home cooks to ‘Trust the Meat Thermometer’ when cooking their Christmas turkey. The three-week campaign will consist of TV, radio and digital advertising as well as free information leaflets for shoppers being d
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Small food producers and food-focused businesses are a key part of the food industry on the island of Irela
The Knowledge Network Round-Up 2021
The Knowledge Network has had a very busy 2021. We have just launched safefood for Business, our new eLearning food safety programme for small food businesses. Our 2021 event calendar was packed with training worksh
Journalist David Burrows takes a look at the much-hyped world of synthetic meat and what it could mean for the future of the food industry.
Twelve months ago, Singapore became the first country to approve a lab-grown meat. “For the first time, meat
We meet Raymond O’Rourke, food lawyer and former Chair of the board of the European Food Safety Authority.
Wicklow native Raymond O’Rourke is a specialist food regulatory and consumer affairs lawyer and has worked for many years in legal firms bot
The safefood podcasts bring you insights and advice from leading experts on food safety. Through the series, we’ll be looking at factors that shape the food industry on the island of Ireland. In our most recent episode guest dietitian Sarah Keogh dis
Norovirus poses the highest burden on society out of 13 pathogens analyzed in the United Kingdom.
The Food Standards Agency (FSA) ranked the foodborne pathogens in order of their detrimental effect on UK society. They were Campylobacter, Clostridium
What is superchilling and how can it help?
Superchilling technologies, use a technique of cooling a product down to a temperature at which the product starts to freeze, generally around –1.5°C to–2°C, and then storing it at that temperature. At this r
Emily Miles addressed the 2021 Chartered Institute of Environmental Health's (CIEH) Year Ahead Conference which, in partnership with the Chartered Trading Standards Institute (CTSI), hosted key policy discussions, examining the challenges to the futu
Almost 50 people fell ill in France with Salmonella infections this past year linked to chicken from one slaughterhouse. Salmonella in beef from Germany was also documented.
Without whole genome sequencing (WGS), the persistent low-level outbreak cou
The global herb and spice industry, valued at approximately US$4 billion, continues to grow year on year. This industry works extremely hard to ensure they provide consumers with safe and authentic products. However, it is continuously under threat f
The percentage of chicken sold at smaller retailers that is contaminated with high levels of Campylobacter remains above a Food Standards Agency target.
A UK-wide survey sampled 1,008 chickens from August 2019 to October 2020. It looked at levels of
Canada has pulled ahead of the United States in the latest edition of a report that measures food security.
The Economist Impact’s Global Food Security Index (GFSI) has the United States in ninth while Canada is seventh. In the previous edition, the
Today marks the final day of World Antibiotic Awareness Week (WAAW) 2021. The campaign aims to increase awareness of global antimicrobial resistance and to encourage best practice among public, health workers and policy makers.
The Food Standards Agency (FSA) has today published its Consolidated and its Westminster Annual Report and Accounts for the past financial year. These cover our performance and activities in 2020/21 across England, Wales and Northern Ireland at a net
The European Commission has published the results of the first coordinated control plan on the authenticity of herbs and spices launched by Directorate-general for Health and Food Safety and carried out by 21 EU Member States, Switzerland and Norway.
