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Asia Pacific: Authority welcomes comments on dairy processing aid

Food Standards Australia New Zealand (FSANZ) today called for submissions on an application to permit a new processing aid. FSANZ CEO Steve McCutcheon said the...

Americas: USDA offers US$30M in grants to food businesses, entrepreneurs

The USDA is making US$30 million available to farmers, ranchers and food entrepreneurs to develop new product lines through the Value-Added Producer Grant (VAPG)...

Asia Pacific: On building a safe, interfloor, automated conveying system

Consoveyo Singapore (Consoveyo), part of Germany-based Körber Logistics Systems, has implemented a new turnkey interfloor conveyor system at JTC Food [email protected], for JTC Corporation...

Americas: Frutatrom receives product license in Canada

The Canadian Natural Health Products Directorate (NHPD) has granted Frutarom a product license for its Benolea cardiovascular health support ingredient. The ingredient supports cardiovascular health...

Asia Pacific: Tuv Sud extends food safety services in India

The International Accreditation Service has accredited Tuv Sud's food testing lab in Vizag for a period of three years. Consequently, food products testing in the...

Africa: Drought threatens food supply in the region

With as little as 25% of expected rainfall received, widespread drought conditions in the Horn of Africa have intensified since the failure of the...

World: China brings dip in FAO Food Price Index

International food commodity prices continued to decline in August as ample supplies, a slump in energy prices and concerns over China's economic slowdown all...

Europe: Russia invests in FAO’s work on antimicrobial resistance

Russia is backing an FAO-led effort to promote food safety and prevent the spread of medicine-resistant 'superbugs' in food and on farms in five...

Americas: Ajinomoto Windsor voluntarily recalls frozen food

Ajinomoto Windsor has voluntarily recalled various not-ready-to eat frozen food items due to the potential for these products to be contaminated with Listeria monocytogenes. This...

Americas: US FDA gives three years for industry to remove PHOs from products

The US Food and Drug Administration said partially hydrogenated oils (PHOs), the primary dietary source of artificial trans fat in processed foods, are not...