The study explored several aspects of food safety regulation, including definitions, underlying legislation, authorisation processes and production standards.
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Vulnerable people have been given the go ahead to eat raw and lightly cooked eggs produced under a second system after it was backed by regulators in the United Kingdom.
Hen shell eggs produced under the Laid in Britain assurance scheme were deemed s
A better understanding of potential foodborne disease risks from imported meat products has been set out in a report published by the Food Standards Agency.
Researchers created profiles of 16 countries, including the United States and the United King
A norovirus vaccine may be possible in the future using newly discovered antibodies, according to research from a collaboration between the Vanderbilt University Medical Center and the Baylor College of Medicine. Norovirus is the number one cause of
The Food Safety Authority of Ireland (FSAI) today reported that ten Closure Orders and one Improvement Order were served on food businesses during the month of July for breaches of food safety legislation, pursuant to the FSAI Act, 1998 and the Europ
The Horizon Europe mandate for Cluster 6 is to provide opportunities to enhance and balance environmental, social and economic goals and to set human economic activities on a path
towards sustainability. The underlying paradigm of Cluster 6 is therefo
Monthly summary of articles on food fraud and adulteration - June, 2021. Food fraud cases: fish and fish products, milk and milk products, bivalve molluscs and products thereof Cephalopods and products thereof, Castropods, Nuts and seeds, alcoholic b
State and local health departments went for months with no concerns other than the pandemic. But this summer, they are finding the time and personnel to work on other public health issues.
Hawaii, for example, has had an embargo underway for unpasteu
These publications provide estimates of the value of sales, value added, profitability, exports and employment for each of the ten subsectors of the food and drinks processing sector in Northern Ireland. These statistics are supplemented with fifteen
The cross-departmental project team behind Pathogen Surveillance in Agriculture, Food and the Environment (PATH-SAFE), a major programme of pathogen surveillance, has been awarded Government funding for the project through the second round of HM Trea
Health investigators continue to try to determine what brand of cake mixes are linked to a current E. coli O121 outbreak as they also work to find out what specific ingredients or ingredients are the sources of the contamination.
The outbreak has sic
The World Health Organization (WHO) wants data on certain mycotoxins in different food products.
The first call for information covers aflatoxin in cereals and cereal-based products. This includes maize grain; flour, meal, semolina and flakes derived
Chicken has been confirmed as the source of most Campylobacter infections, according to a research report published by the Food Standards Agency (FSA) in the United Kingdom.
A workshop on the European Partnership “Safe and Sustainable Food Systems for People, Planet and Climate” took place on the 18th September 2019 in Brussels. The event brought together the members of SCAR FOOD SYSTEMS SWG and representatives of JPIs F
The future health of Europe’s people and the planet lies on our plate: the way in which food is farmed, fished, processed, distributed, valued, prepared, consumed and wasted must change to ensure that the environmental, social and economic sustainabi
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The World Health Organization (WHO) has called for data on two heavy metals in a range of food types.
The first covers methylmercury and total mercury in orange roughy, pink cusk-eel and all toothfish and the second is on lead in cereal-based foods a
The project sought feedback from members of the public on their perceptions of genome edited (GE) food and its potential future labelling.
The research highlighted low participant awareness of GE and its difference to GM, and the need to educate t
A report published by the FSA confirms that chickens are the source of the majority of human cases of Campylobacter, followed by other animals such as sheep, pigs and cows. This infection may have been passed to people directly through food, but coul
The key objective of this survey - promoted by PwC - is to investigate AI applications for evidence management in order to provide useful support to EFSA in developing a harmonised approach on the implementation of AI methods in these areas by mappin
