Governance
Regulatory updates on food trade and commercial breakthroughs on product safety.
Americas: Purdue leaders join Commission against food challenges
Three Purdue University leaders have joined The Challenge of Change Commission, which is comprised of 34 prominent university, government, non-governmental organizations, and business leaders....
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...
Europe: Antimicrobial resistance research wins award
Professor Frank Møller Aarestrup from the National Food Institute, Technical University of Denmark, has been awarded the Nils Foss Excellence Prize 2017 worth EUR...
Asia Pacific: Valio receives Chinese export permit for infant formula
The Chinese government has given Valio an export permit to ship its powdered infant formulas, manufactured at the Lapinlahti plant, and ready-to-feed liquid infant...
Americas: Researchers create sensors to detect gases, pollutants
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) chemists have devised a new way to wirelessly detect hazardous gases and environmental pollutants, using a simple sensor that...
Asia Pacific: IOI Loders Croklaan Asia achieves compliance on responsible sourcing
IOI Loders Croklaan (IOILC) Asia says it has complied with the Supplier Ethical Data Exchange (SEDEX) Registration and Supplier Responsible Sourcing Program on March...
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...
Americas: Manage ocean’s resources to ensure food security, says FAO
A better management of the world's ocean resources is crucial to ensuring food global security, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) Director-General...
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...
Americas: Plains Dairy expands use of food safety platform ReposiTrak
Milk and dairy producer Plains Dairy is using ReposiTrak to share its food safety documents downstream with parent company, Affiliated Foods of Amarillo, as...