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World: G20 agriculture ministers to build food systems for food security, nutrition, says FAO
The Group of 20 (G20) agriculture ministers have committed to meet global food security and nutrition needs by building food systems that use natural...
Europe: Sweden donates SEK40M to WTO facility on food safety, standards
The Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency is contributing SEK 40 million (US$0.33 million) to the Standards and Trade Development Facility (STDF) over the next...
Americas: Multistate foodborne disease outbreaks sicken thousands, finds report
Multistate outbreaks cause more than half of all deaths in foodborne disease outbreaks despite accounting for 3% of reported outbreaks in the US, according...
Europe: Tool for estimating vulnerability to food fraud
Wageningen University, RIKILT Wageningen UR and VU Amsterdam have launched the Food Fraud Vulnerability Assessment tool (FFVA) for companies to approximate their vulnerability to...
Asia Pacific: Authority did not find cause for alarm on using nanotechnology in food
FSANZ has published two reports on the use of nanotechnology in food additives and food packaging.
The reports have reviewed the evidence on nanoscale silicon...
Americas: Instinctif Partners launch recall-ready tools
Instinctif Partners have launched two tools to help companies respond to a product recall or operational crisis.
RecallOptic provides an accurate indicator of product recall...
Americas: Paper, analysis to enhance food safety on fresh produce
Scientists report in Analytical Chemistry that they are closing in on a way to use a combination of color-changing paper and electrochemical analysis to...
Europe: Setting international standards for booming food trade
Participation in the development of international food standards for trade is essential if countries are to reap the benefits of booming global trade and...
Asia Pacific: Detecting trace amounts of pesticide in less than two hours
Food scientists from the National University of Singapore developed a rapid and highly sensitive screening technique capable of detecting minute amounts of pyrethroids in...
Americas: ADL, SafetyChain Software to automate food safety, quality assurance programs
Canadian dairy producer Amalgamated Dairies Limited (ADL) has selected SafetyChain Software, a food safety chain management systems (FSCMS) company, as its partner for a...