Food Safety
Europe: Firms use blockchain in combating food fraud
PwC highlighted that food fraud costs the global economy in excess of US$40 billion a year.
This equates to an additional US$5 per week on...
Americas: Tamper Alert for packaging
Chromatic Technologies Inc. (CTI) introduces the Tamper Alert, a new irreversible, heat-activated ink technology to identify tamper evidence in labels and packaging for chemicals,...
Americas: Anchor Packaging receives BRC certificate
Anchor Packaging receives the 'High Hygiene' certification from NSF International for the BRC Global Standard for Packaging.
The British Retail Consortium (BRC) is...
Europe: Metal detector without ‘product effect’
Mettler-Toledo Safeline launches a metal detector that produces up to 95% less false rejects by combining Multi-Simultaneous Frequency (MSF) and Product Signal Suppression technology....
Europe: Preventing mineral-oil migration into food
While consumers can do very little to prevent mineral-oil components - MOSH and MOAH - residues, the food industry has responded by introducing minimization...
Americas: 3M solution wins Gold Stevie Award
The 3M Clean-Trace Hygiene Monitoring and Management System has won the Gold Stevie Award in the Best New Product or Service of the Year...
Europe: Chicken, poultry products highest on recall list
Recalls of chicken and other poultry meats are at their highest level since 2002, according to a Stericycle ExpertSOLUTIONS report.
This is despite poultry overtaking...
Europe: EFSA improves scientific assessments
European Food Safety Authority's (EFSA) Scientific Committee has developed three key methodological frameworks to improve the robustness, quality and transparency of the scientific assessments...
Europe: Report shows link between antibiotic use, resistance
The European Food Safety Authority, the European Medicines Agency and the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control are concerned about the impact of...
Americas: Anchor Packaging obtains food safety certification
Anchor Packaging has earned the High Hygiene certification from NSF International for the British Retail Consortium (BRC) Global Standard for Packaging.
The BRC...