Food Safety
Did You Know: How Halal food testing is done?
The dietary laws that forbid Jews and Muslims from consuming pork date back millennia, but when pork ingredients are included in food products, deliberately...
Europe: EFSA confirms most food in EU is within legal limits of pesticide residues
More than 97% of all samples analyzed as part of the latest Europe-wide monitoring program of pesticides in foods contain residue levels that fall...
Americas: Certain US retail delis tested positive for L. monocytogenes, finds researcher
Purdue University research shows that standard cleaning procedures in retail delis may not eradicate Listeria monocytogenes bacteria, which can cause a potentially fatal disease...
Americas: Cognex launches technology for vision inspection
Cognex Corporation's PatMax RedLine is a feature-location technology that reinvents the PatMax pattern-matching tool by maximizing speed and performance.
Available in the latest Cognex In-Sight...
Asia Pacific: SCIEX shares on addressing food safety issues in the dairy industry
Milk is one of the most consumed foods globally, but also a problematic one in terms of food safety.
Its rich-in-protein quality makes it as...
Europe: TÜV SÜD holds webinar on food hygiene
TÜV SÜD will hold the second part of its webinar series - How safe is the food you serve? – Steps the hospitality industry...
Europe: Portable system created to detect pathogens onsite
In collaboration with academia and industry, researchers at the Technical University of Denmark (DTU) Nanotech have developed a new portable lab-on-a-chip platform suitable for...
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...
Americas: Seeing bacteria glow in the dark
Scientists looking for traces of E. coli O157:H7 contamination in foods soon could have a new detection method on their hands - turning off...
Americas: Count plates get AFNOR certification
3M Food Safety says its 3M Petrifilm Rapid Aerobic Count Plates have received AFNOR Certification by NF Validation.
The plates had previously received validation through...