Food Safety
Europe: EFSA report finds dip in drug residues in food
Recent data on veterinary drug residues in animals and food shows 730,000 samples were reported in 2014 – a drop from the 1 million...
Europe: Leaders launch network for managing food crises
Authorities have launched a new network to achieve joint global food-security assessments and joint responses to food crises, including those related to phenomena such...
Americas: USDA has “no questions” for GRAS status of AR yeast
The US Food and Drug Administration has "no questions" in regards to Renaissance’s Generally Regarded as Safe (GRAS) notice for its non-GMO, acrylamide-reducing (AR)...
Americas: CDC adds module to pathogen library
With Bruker Corp., the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has recently added a new module to MicrobeNet that allows laboratories to search...
Asia Pacific: Addivant receives Chinese regulatory approval for antioxidant
Addivant's nonylphenol-free stabilizer, Weson 705, has received broad food contact approval for use in packaging materials from the National Health and Family Planning Commission...
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...
Europe: UK holds event on food, human microbes, health
The New York Academy of Sciences and the Quadram Institute held an international conference to explore trends and emerging findings in microbiome science from...
Europe: New BRC toolkit aims to improve packaging safety
The British Retail Consortium (BRC) has released the new issue 5 of BRC Global Standard for packaging and packaging material.
BRC Packaging standard is a...
World: Food safety culture is needful, finds global survey
Improving food safety culture was stated as the most important training goal ahead of effective employee performance, creating a safe wholesome product and skill...
Americas: Salmonella ‘microevolves’, find researchers
Research led by Dr Rob Kingsley from the Institute of Food Research (IFR) has shown how Salmonella rapidly 'microevolves' during an epidemic.
It highlights how...