Governance
Regulatory updates on food trade and commercial breakthroughs on product safety.
Asia Pacific: Organisations to promote Certified Food Scientist certification to professionals in Australia
The Australian Institute of Food Science and Technology (AIFST) and the Institute of Food Technologists say AIFST will endorse and promote the Certified Food...
Americas: T.H.E.M.’s New Jersey facility receives SQF Level 2 certification
North American provider of single-use flexible packaging solutions company Technical Help in Engineering and Marketing (T.H.E.M.) says its Marlton, New Jersey contract manufacturing facility...
Europe: New methods can help overcome shortcomings using culture-based methods to test pork for...
In a PhD project at the National Food Institute, Technical University of Denmark, researchers studied new methods of characterizing and detecting foodborne illness-causing Salmonella...
Europe: Linpac Packaging, Addmaster release bug-busting packaging for fresh meat
Linpac Packaging, and Addmaster, a supplier of performance additives to industry, have developed a range of trays and lidding films with built-in antimicrobial technology...
Americas: Randox Food Diagnostics offers ELISA test on shrimp, seafood products
A sharp rise in Oxytetracyclines residues within Asian seafood products has coincided with the development of a brand new test for the antimicrobial agent.
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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...
Asia Pacific: Korea approves poultry imports from the Philippines
The Republic of Korea (ROK) has given the Philippines access to its US$300 million market for fresh frozen chicken.
The Animal and Plant Quarantine Agency...
Americas: Sausage producer recalls product for packaging blunder
Zemco Industries Inc., a Buffalo, NY, establishment, is recalling approximately 106,800 pounds of smoked sausage due to misbranding and an undeclared allergen, the U.S....
Europe: UK authority finds 59% of birds tested positive for Campylobacter
The Food Standards Agency (FSA) has published the first set of quarterly results from a new survey of Campylobacter on fresh shop-bought chickens in...
Americas: Interroll’s drum motor receives USDA equipment certification for food processing
Interroll says its asynchronous drum motor (models 113i, 138i, 165i and 217i) has recently gained approval from the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) for...