Food Safety
Europe: EFSA advises on heat treatment of bivalve molluscs
Experts at the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) have evaluated possible alternatives to the current heat treatments of molluscs required by European Union legislation...
Europe: Food security, climate change on same agreement
FAO Director-General José Graziano da Silva welcomed the approval of the Paris Agreement, saying that "for the first time ever, food security features in...
Asia Pacific: SATO printing solution facilitates same-day seafood distribution in Japan
SATO says CSN Chihou Sousei Network (CSN) utilized its barcode label printing solution featuring CL4NX-J Internet of Things industrial printers for a fresh seafood...
Asia Pacific: GFSI, UNIDO to build food safety capacity in China
The Global Food Safety Initiative (GFSI) and the United Nations Industrial Development Organisation (UNIDO) will collaborate on an initiative for food safety capacity building...
Africa: Health authority uses green system to pasteurize milk
South Africa's Department of Health has endorsed ongoing studies of the use of SurePure's ultra-violet (UV) photopurification as an alternative to pasteurization for the...
Europe: SGS accredited for BRC Agents & Brokers Standard
SGS is now an accredited Certification Body for the BRC Agents & Brokers Standard with trained auditors all regions of the world.
Published in 2014,...
Europe Denmark releases tool to check for harmful chemical substances
The (Quantitative) Structure–Activity Relationship or (Q)SAR database, a new database containing more than 600,000 chemical structures enables companies to quickly get an overview of...
Asia Pacific: Fonterra site receives new food safety certification
Fonterra Te Awamutu has become the first site in the world to be awarded the newly created Food Safety System Certification 22000 – Quality,...
Europe: Campden BRI offers paper on sous vide processing
Campden BRI has provided a paper entitled The microbiological safety of sous-vide processing (Guideline 75) that provides guidance to sous-vide processing with particular emphasis on...
Europe: Mettler Toledo’s new detector manages active product signals
Mettler Toledo Safeline Metal Detection launches the Profile Advantage metal detector that utilizes the Multi Simultaneous Frequency technology to deliver up to 50% greater...