Food Safety
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...
Americas: DuPont Nutrition & Health’s PCR Assay receives PTM certification
The AOAC Research Institute has certified the DuPont BAX System Real-Time polymerase chain reaction (PCR) Assay for Genus Listeria as a performance tested method...
Europe: EU embarks of project against diseases
A large European Union (EU) project called COMPARE intends to speed up the detection of and response to disease outbreaks among humans and animals...
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: Bosch exhibits visual inspection machines in Geneva exhibition
Bosch introduces visual inspection systems at the Geneva Trade Fair for Quality Assurance, EPHJ 2015 from June 2 to 5.
Originally, the application-oriented solutions and...