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Regulatory updates on food trade and commercial breakthroughs on product safety.
Americas: Salmonella outbreak linked to hot peppers
A multistate outbreak of Salmonella Anatum infections was detected in the US in June 2016.
It involved 32 patients from nine states with illness onset...
Europe: Campylobacter to blame for most foodborne infections in Denmark
Campylobacter is to blame for more than 4,600 foodborne infections in Denmark.
It remains the most common cause of foodborne disease, according to the annual...
Asia Pacific: Lupin added to allergen declaration list
Food Standards Australia and New Zealand has added lupin to the list of nine allergens that must be declared on food labels.
Food businesses will...
Europe: PolyU joins large-scale food fraud project
The Institute for Global Food Security at Queen's University Belfast will lead one of the world's largest food safety projects across Europe and China....
Americas: Shimadzu releases gas chromatograph
Shimadzu Scientific Instruments introduces the Nexis GC-2030 gas chromatograph (GC), allowing the user to remotely connect to the GC via PC or the operator’s...
Americas: Taxes affect soft drinks consumption, studies
While excise taxes to reduce the consumption of sugar-sweetened beverages have not yet been enacted at the state or federal level in the US,...
Europe: Finland validates DSM’s antibiotic residue test for milk
A report by Finnish Food Safety Authority Evira has validated DSM Food Specialties’ Delvotest T antibiotic residue test for milk.
Based on tests in the...
Asia Pacific: Most Japanese make purchase decisions based on on-pack health claims, DuPont tells...
Food products containing Bifidobacterium lactis HN019 from the DuPont Danisco range have been recorded with the Consumer Affairs Agency, Government of Japan, for Food...
Americas: Thermo Scientific releases solutions for quantitative workflows
Thermo Fisher Scientific releases two products for analytical laboratories to obtain high quality data from targeted quantitation applications in the environmental, food safety, pharmaceutical...
Asia Pacific: FSANZ recalls frozen berries
Food Standards Australia New Zealand (FSANZ) has alerted consumers to a food recall of a frozen mixed berries product that is potentially linked to...