Food Safety
Americas: IBM, Cornell University partner on safe milk supply
IBM and Cornell University will use next-generation sequencing combined with bioinformatics designed to help reduce the chances that the global milk supply is impacted...
Americas: 3M releases solution to detect pathogen faster
The new 3M Molecular Detection Assay 2 – Campylobacter with 3M Campylobacter Enrichment Broth is designed to provide more efficient testing for a key...
Americas: 3M Food Safety launches 48hr yeast and mold indicator test
3M Food Safety has launched worldwide the 3M Petrifilm Rapid Yeast and Mold Count Plate, an indicator test that helps detect yeasts and molds...
Americas: USDA, FSIS roll out new rules for safe poultry products
The US Department of Agriculture's (USDA) Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) has on July 31, 2014 announced that poultry companies will have to...
Americas: Purdue University showcases food safety technologies
Purdue University food safety researchers have developed a number of patented available technologies through the Office of Technology Commercialization that could provide more secure,...
Americas: USP proposes documents into Food Chemicals Codex, introduces guidance on food fraud
The U.S. Pharmacopeial Convention (USP) is proposing new monographs and introducing the Guidance on Food Fraud Mitigation to be included in its Food Chemicals...
Europe: Danish researchers find chemical cocktail effects in food
A recently completed, four-year research project on cocktail effects in foods, led by the National Food Institute, has established that when two or more...
Asia Pacific: SCIEX releases study that detects low levels of Pesticide 1080 in hours
SCIEX's application team is developing a new method for screening of monofluoroacetic acid (MFA), also known as ‘1080’.
In 2008, a melamine milk scandal posed...
Europe: FSA proposes approach on serving rare burgers
UK's Food Standards Agency (FSA) has published a proposed new approach to the preparation and service of rare (pink) burgers in food outlets.
The increased...
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...