Food Safety
Asia Pacific: PwC launches food safety, quality business in China
PwC China marked World Health Day on April 7, 2015 by announcing the establishment of its Food Supply and Integrity Services business to help...
Europe: Ebola virus is not transmittable through food, says EFSA
There is no evidence that the Ebola virus can be transmitted through food in the European Union (EU), according to European Food Safety Authority...
Americas: Researchers develop nontoxic antifreeze product from food additive
The sweet taste and smell of antifreeze tempts children and animals to drink the poisonous substance, resulting in thousands of accidental poisonings in the...
Europe: Bizerba acquires Luceo, expands visual inspection capabilities
Bizerba has acquired the food sector of the French company Luceo SAS, which the latter is part of the Tiama Group. Luceo provides visual...
Asia Pacific: PepsiCo Foundation opens 80th safe water station in India
The PepsiCo Foundation and Safe Water Network launched the 80th iJal, or safe water station, in Vennaram, a village of approximately 4,000 people in...
Europe: UK authority releases report in food viruses
The Advisory Committee on the Microbiological Safety of Food (ACMSF) has published its extensive review of viruses in the food chain.
The report, which is...
Americas: US releases action plan on seafood traceability into the country
On March 15, 2015, The Presidential Task Force on Illegal, Unreported, and Unregulated (IUU) Fishing and Seafood Fraud in the US released its action...
Europe: Danish researchers find chemical cocktail effects in food
A recently completed, four-year research project on cocktail effects in foods, led by the National Food Institute, has established that when two or more...
Americas: Plains Dairy expands use of food safety platform ReposiTrak
Milk and dairy producer Plains Dairy is using ReposiTrak to share its food safety documents downstream with parent company, Affiliated Foods of Amarillo, as...
Europe: Most food samples containing pesticide residue are within legal limits, says EFSA
More than 97% of food samples evaluated by the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) contain pesticide residue levels that fall within legal limits, with...