safefood is hosting a seminar on the microbiological food safety risks and challenges relating to fresh and frozen produce. The seminar will be of interest to anyone working in the fruit and vegetable sector, researchers, regulators and public health
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The Food Standards Agency (FSA) has issued two alerts warning of potential listeria contamination and a processor supplying products “that have not been produced in accordance with food hygiene and legislative requirements".
The seafood industry is being urged to do more to confront rogue behaviour following the discovery of a five-year-long bait-and-switch scheme involving a US firm.
This year’s FSA Symposium of Social Science will be held in Cardiff on November 4th 2019 as part of the ESRC Festival of Social Science.
Supermarket Asda is testing a coating technology, designed to slow the rate of fruit and vegetable spoiling in an effort to reduce food waste. It is the first time that the technology is being tested in the UK since receiving approval from the EU com
Chair of the Food Standards Agency (FSA) Heather Hancock has announced the appointment of Professor Bill Keevil as independent Chair to the Advisory Committee on the Microbiological Safety of Food (ACMSF).
The inquest into teenager, Owen Carey’s, death, following an anaphylactic reaction, is due to resume this week at Southwark Crown Court.
Carey had multiple allergies, including dairy and wheat, and suffered an allergic reaction after ordering a grill
For the third time, the Federal Office of Consumer Protection and Food Safety (BVL) offers an advanced training course with the topic ,,Food Safety and Risk Management’’.
Here you will be guided through a selection of funding opportunities that are most relevant to food safety, including European and Global funding schemes.
EFSA’s Research Platform is home for the wider food safety research community. It aims to support project ideas, promote consortia formation, and help scientists find opportunities for public research funding in food safety.
The New Zealand Food Safety unit has recently opened its draft strategy for public consultation, and has identified four key emerging risks and opportunities to focus on within the New Zealand food safety system, which apply to both local and foreign
The percentage of chickens positive at the top level for Campylobacter in the United Kingdom has increased for the second successive quarter.
For the top nine retailers, 3.6 percent of fresh whole chickens tested from April to June 2019 had more than
safefood has launched the latest phase of its Rufus handwashing programme which aims to help make learning good handwashing habits fun, and help to keep E.coli at bay. Programme materials includes a new Rufus storybook which uses fun illustrations an
safefood’s 2019 series of workshops ‘Food safety: Helping you to get it right’ for small and medium-sized food businesses are currently underway. The workshops carried out in association with Teagasc provide practical advice and cover areas such as:
Congratulations to the winner of our last competition, Annette D'arcy, Sir Patrick Dun's Hospital, Dublin 2.
The answer to the previous crossword was BISCUIT.
safefood is delighted to offer one lucky crossword winner a luxury hamper of gourmet food fro
New approaches for protecting our favourite foods.
The potato blight (Phytophthora infestans) that caused the Great Irish Famine of the mid-nineteenth century, continues to be the primary disease affecting potatoes. In the UK, potato farmers spend £55
Offering reassurance to both the public and the food industry, The Q Mark is an indicator of hygiene and food safety standards, says Irene Collins, MD of Excellence Ireland Quality Association.
In a rapidly changing food industry and an ever-expanding
Dr Seamus O'Reilly of Cork University Business School at University College Cork (UCC) outlines vulnerabilities in the food chain and outlines how the industry can protect itself.
In the aftermath of high profile issues around food contamination and
Have you been following our GFSI Blog mini-series featuring guest posts from the winners of the 2019 Global Markets Awards? Our growing body of Global Markets Awards winners operate like international food safety ambassadors, propagating their knowle
The top nine retailers across the UK have today published their latest testing results on campylobacter contamination in UK-produced fresh whole chickens (covering samples tested from April to June 2019).
