Food Safety
Europe: Determining inorganic arsenic levels in food
A new European standard method to determine the content of inorganic arsenic in foodstuffs has been developed at the National Food Institute, Technical University...
Europe: NSF International expands in region
NSF International has acquired food safety and quality service company Euro Consultants Group (ECG) in Wavre, Belgium.
The two organizations share a similar commitment to...
Europe: University releases categories of food scares
The food sector is now a world market with products sourced from all over the globe to meet the growing demand of consumers for...
Europe: Setting international standards for booming food trade
Participation in the development of international food standards for trade is essential if countries are to reap the benefits of booming global trade and...
Asia Pacific: Detecting trace amounts of pesticide in less than two hours
Food scientists from the National University of Singapore developed a rapid and highly sensitive screening technique capable of detecting minute amounts of pyrethroids in...
Europe: UK authority finds 59% of birds tested positive for Campylobacter
The Food Standards Agency (FSA) has published the first set of quarterly results from a new survey of Campylobacter on fresh shop-bought chickens in...
Europe: More knowledge needed to ensure safe use of botanicals in food
The challenges related to assessing the safety of botanicals in foods and food supplements and regulating their use were highlighted at a conference held...
Americas: Scrutinize how food safety risks emerge in food factories, Mars tells FNI
Scientists from IBM Research and Mars, Incorporated have established the Consortium for Sequencing the Food Supply Chain, a collaborative food safety platform that will...
World: G20 agriculture ministers to build food systems for food security, nutrition, says FAO
The Group of 20 (G20) agriculture ministers have committed to meet global food security and nutrition needs by building food systems that use natural...
Europe: Sweden donates SEK40M to WTO facility on food safety, standards
The Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency is contributing SEK 40 million (US$0.33 million) to the Standards and Trade Development Facility (STDF) over the next...