Food Safety
Americas: Neogen adds six tests to portfolio on drug residue detection in food
Neogen Corporation rolls out six tests to detect veterinary drug residues in food, which adds to four others introduced recently.
The six new tests are...
Europe: UK opens facility for reporting on food crime
Food Standards Agency (FSA) said the National Food Crime Unit has launched Food Crime Confidential, a reporting facility where anyone with suspicions about food...
Americas: Neogen acquires companies, disinfectant technologies
Neogen Corporation has acquired Preserve International and Tetradyne LLC, sister companies owned and operated by Nevada-based Preserve International corporation.
Founded in 1991, Preserve and Tetradyne...
Europe: Codex members to meet on decisions
Members of the international food standards-setting body, the Codex Alimentarius Commission, will meet at FAO in Rome this week.
They will be making decisions on:
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Americas: Researchers devise sensor to find bacteria – alive or dead
A new type of electronic sensor that might be used to quickly detect and classify bacteria for medical diagnostics and food safety has passed...
Europe: Peanut allergy prevention strategy is nutritionally safe, states study
Introducing peanut-containing foods during infancy as a peanut allergy prevention strategy does not compromise the duration of breastfeeding or affect children’s growth and nutritional...
Asia Pacific: FSANZ calls for comments on safe food packaging
Food Standards Australia New Zealand (FSANZ) is calling for submissions on a proposal investigating chemical migration from packaging into food and whether existing regulations...
Asia Pacific: FSANZ releases recall plan template
Food Standards Australia New Zealand (FSANZ) has developed a Food Recall Plan template to help food businesses manage recalls.
CEO Steve McCutcheon said every food...
Asia Pacific: Scientists in Singapore invent material that kills E Coli in 30 seconds
Researchers at the Institute of Bioengineering and Nanotechnology (IBN) of A*STAR have developed a new material that can kill the E. coli bacteria within...
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...