Governance
Regulatory updates on food trade and commercial breakthroughs on product safety.
Asia Pacific: World Bank, Vietnam to finance initiatives
The State Bank of Vietnam and the World Bank have signed four credit agreements totaling US$507 million to support Vietnam’s priorities in sustainable agriculture,...
Asia Pacific: Vietnam sells state-owned beer companies, report
The Vietnamese government’s sale of a majority share in the two largest state-run breweries offers foreign brewers to take a stake in the country's...
Americas: Mettler-Toledo Garvens launches series of checkweighers
Mettler-Toledo Garvens launches the C Series of checkweighers with three main product lines. The turnkey C31 StandardLine has been designed especially for packages weighing...
Americas: Antibiotic resistance in foodborne germs is an ongoing threat, says CDC
Antibiotic resistance in foodborne germs, an ongoing public health threat, continued to show both positive and challenging trends in 2013, according to human illness...
Asia Pacific: Authority welcomes comments on dairy processing aid
Food Standards Australia New Zealand (FSANZ) today called for submissions on an application to permit a new processing aid.
FSANZ CEO Steve McCutcheon said the...
Americas: FoodChain ID releases program on non-GMO verification
FoodChain ID has announced a new 30-day guarantee for non-genetically modified organism (GMO) Project verification of low-GMO risk products.
The program is offered at no extra...
Americas: AOAC validates ground beef, flour validation systems
Hygiena has received extensions to its AOAC-Research Institute validation for the BAX System Real-Time Polymerase chain reaction (PCR) Assay Suite for STEC for two...
Middle East: GNT Group opens affiliate in region
GNT Group has opened an affiliate office in the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) region in Dubai.
"As people are getting increasingly conscious of food...
Americas: 3M Food Safety, partner conduct webinar series on FSMA
3M Food Safety and The Acheson Group held a webinar on the Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA) on February 11, 2016.
The event is part...
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...