Over sixty companies attended the recent Insight Session held in Bord Bia around Tomorrow’s Shopper – the evolution of the shopper in Ireland and the UK. At the breakfast session, Bord Bia presented our latest research in this area, with two addition
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The FSA wants to recruit new-users and super-users. If you are keen to come on board as a UKFSS ‘new–user’ or are an existing user who can act as a source of expertise to support new local authorities coming on-board, then why not think about applyin
This review provides an update on the fruit and vegetable review conducted in 2007. It collates and considers the information available – academic, regulatory, public health – on the health and food safety implications of fruit and vegetables. It foc
The FSA is seeking to recruit up to four Board members who can demonstrate achievement in a Board-level leadership role, a proven ability in strategic planning and in evaluating risk.
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The new members will be appointed by the Secretary of State for He
The safefood Knowledge Networks Presentation Archive lists all the presentations from each Knowledge Network conference since they were launched in 2011. Each conference is aimed at food safety professionals, with a range of national and internationa
Job Title: Post-Doc position in MS-based metabolomics
Starting from: December 1st 2013
Duration: 24 months contract, full-time position
Place of work: Nantes, France
Project background:
DeTECH21 is an EU FP7 Capacity funded project, aiming at providin
The Food Standards Agency is encouraging food business to make the most of their food hygiene rating to help attract customers trade. A toolkit offering guidance, images, logos and web banners is available.
After years of silence, Sysco Corporation employees across North America are finally speaking out about a longstanding practice by the world’s largest food distributor that put the public’s health at risk. Their startling revelations come in response
The bacteria, which cause severe gastrointestinal illness and even death in humans, are spread by consuming contaminated food and water, or by contact with livestock feces in the environment. Cattle are the main reservoir for the bacterium.
The vaccin
The number of antimicrobial-resistant Salmonella serotypes hasn’t increased drastically in recent years, but drug-resistant Salmonella continues to pose a public health threat in the United States, particularly as resistance spreads across classes of
Scientists have figured out how virulent E. coli bacteria block a pathway that would normally protect the gut from infection.
These infections are particularly serious in young children and can result in diarrhea and other complications such as kidney
If wasted food became its own pungent country, it would be the world’s third biggest contributor to climate change.
The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization had previously determined that roughly one-third of food is wasted around the worl
The Food Standards Agency is inviting tenders for research that will help identify how vacuum and modified air packaging will affect the growth and survival of Listeria monocytogenes.
It will also look at how measures to reduce it may conflict with a
The FAO has issued a toolkit for reducing food waste, as it reveals the direct economic cost to food producers stands at $750bn (€561bn) a year, in a new report.
TURKEY - Around 46 per cent of chicken and 58 per cent of beef samples from Ankara markets tested positive for the antibiotic group, quinolones.
Applications are currently being taken for Innovation vouchers from Invest NI and Enterprise Ireland. This scheme is aimed at small to medium sized businesses on the island of Ireland. For more detailed on support available please click the appropria
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Call for Applicants for the Training and Mobility Programme 2013
The safefood Training & Mobility Programme enables safefood Knowledge Network memb
Leading and developing key strategy developments in food science and related areas as a key member of the Food Science Directorate, the successful candidate must hold an honours degree in microbiology or equivalent scientific discipline and a PhD in
Over the last few months a successful series of workshops were held. These were aimed at upskilling staff at food processing facilities who wouldn’t necessarily have a scientific background, on understanding contamination, covering basic hygiene issu
ProSafeBeef was an Integrated Project supported under the 6th Framework Programme of the European Union. The project, co-ordinated by Teagasc Food Research Centre, focused on advancing Beef Safety and Quality through Research and Innovation. This pro
