You may or may not know this, but you can buy food through Facebook Marketplace. Sounds like a good idea in a time of potential food shortages, right?
Maybe not.
Food safety experts think that buying food from “opaque” Facebook posts may lead to cons
Norwegian salmon producer Kvarøy Arctic has joined the IBM Food Trust to increase transparency and help prevent fraud in the seafood industry.
safefood invites tenders from suitable parties to provide a re-development/re-design of safefood for life, the online food safety education resource for post primary schools on the island of Ireland.
The tender responses
“Food safety is EFSA’s daily job, but it’s everyone’s business to consider food safety now and in the future if we want to limit the impact of climate change and to build sustainable global food systems for the benefit of consumers, producers and our
In recognition of World Food Safety Day, safefood & FSAI remind people never to wash raw chicken
UCC are starting a free online return to work course to help employees and employers get back on their feet.
The course is organised by Adult Continuing Education Lecturers James O'Herlihy and Belinda Gascoigne.
It will run over a number of dat
The FSA is a non-ministerial department of over 1300 people, with a big vision – to drive change in the food system so that it delivers “food we can trust” - as the country has now left the EU, the scale of this challenge cannot be underestimated. Mo
The use of online surveys to collect responses from healthy people during outbreak investigations has been tested by researchers in Canada.
In foodborne outbreak investigations, case-control and cohort studies are used to test hypotheses and identify
Author: Grace Binchy, Insight & Trends Specialist, Bord Bia - The Irish Food Board
72% of UK adults have minimised their trip to the shops as a result of the Covid 19 response with 85% expecting to continue to do so into the future.
27% of UK cons
Two research groups in Norway and China are planning a joint call for projects in food safety.
The Research Council of Norway (RCN) and National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) call for proposals will open on June 15 with a deadline of Sep
One day after announcing they would soon determine new dates for the annual IAFP conference the association’s leaders did just that, cautiously setting the event for Oct. 25-28.
Originally scheduled for August, the annual conference and meeting of th
Members of an international food safety network have heard that in the increasingly globalized world, a local outbreak of foodborne illness can rapidly evolve into a global crisis.
The International Food Safety Authorities Network (INFOSAN) is a volu
A European project helping to promote scientific progress on foodborne zoonoses has held its annual meeting virtually because of the coronavirus outbreak.
The second annual scientific meeting of the One Health European Joint Program (OHEJP) on foodbo
Food adulteration is a growing concern worldwide. The collation and analysis of food adulteration cases is of immense significance for food safety regulation and research.
Research led by the Chinese Academy of Sciences collected 961 cases of food ad
What will be discussed:
Despite the COVID-19 pandemic outbreak, food and beverage adulteration has continued unhindered in Pakistan with authorities having had to seize and discard thousands of units of dairy, fruits, spices and other items despite continuing food supply fe
After having to be rescheduled, this year’s Food Safety Summit is set for Oct. 19-22 at the Donald E. Stephens Convention Center in Rosemont, IL.
Registration is now open for the summit, with early bird pricing available before Aug. 31.
A variety of European countries have issued nearly 100 warnings about Salmonella in chilled and frozen poultry from Poland since the start of March this year.
Data from the Rapid Alert System for Food and Feed (RASFF) portal shows alerts from Bulgari
Whole genome sequencing helped identify concurrent outbreaks of a rare Salmonella serotype in Germany in 2017, according to a study.
Whole genome sequencing (WGS) of Salmonella Kottbus isolates revealed three co-circulating clusters in the country be
