Food Safety
Europe: Research quantifies Clostridium botulinum spores in raw food materials
A study from the Institute of Food Research (IFR) has provided new evidence on the background levels of spores of Clostridium botulinum in raw...
World: Frutarom shares on decontaminating natural herbal extracts
Frutarom Health BU has launched the EFLA HyperPure natural ingredients in response to new regulations by the European Union to prevent polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons...
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...
Americas: Food Safety ’15 series – If prevention is the main attraction, is US’...
It has now been more than four years since the Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA) was signed into law by President Obama on January...
Asia Pacific: Detect meat fraud using enhanced analytical methods, says AB Sciex
Food fraud is gaining interest as an emerging risk given the increasingly global and complex nature of food supply chains.
It is not uncommon to...
Europe: IP, compliance important in natural ingredients, Frutarom tells FNI
Frutarom Switzerland Ltd. Health Business Unit has named Dr Matthias H. Kreuter as its new global chief scientific officer (CSO) from January 1, 2015.
Dr...
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...