Tag: food safety
Europe: EFSA report finds dip in drug residues in food
Recent data on veterinary drug residues in animals and food shows 730,000 samples were reported in 2014 – a drop from the 1 million...
Americas: CDC adds module to pathogen library
With Bruker Corp., the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has recently added a new module to MicrobeNet that allows laboratories to search...
Asia Pacific: Addivant receives Chinese regulatory approval for antioxidant
Addivant's nonylphenol-free stabilizer, Weson 705, has received broad food contact approval for use in packaging materials from the National Health and Family Planning Commission...
Americas: Ajinomoto Windsor voluntarily recalls frozen food
Ajinomoto Windsor has voluntarily recalled various not-ready-to eat frozen food items due to the potential for these products to be contaminated with Listeria monocytogenes.
This...
Europe: UK holds event on food, human microbes, health
The New York Academy of Sciences and the Quadram Institute held an international conference to explore trends and emerging findings in microbiome science from...
World: Food safety culture is needful, finds global survey
Improving food safety culture was stated as the most important training goal ahead of effective employee performance, creating a safe wholesome product and skill...
Americas: Salmonella ‘microevolves’, find researchers
Research led by Dr Rob Kingsley from the Institute of Food Research (IFR) has shown how Salmonella rapidly 'microevolves' during an epidemic.
It highlights how...
Europe: Determining inorganic arsenic levels in food
A new European standard method to determine the content of inorganic arsenic in foodstuffs has been developed at the National Food Institute, Technical University...
Europe: Jacob to open webshop for pipework orders
With the new Food Grade and Detectable Design product lines, Jacob is presenting a modular pipework system with extra security for particularly hygiene-sensitive industries.
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