Tag: food safety
Europe: Research quantifies Clostridium botulinum spores in raw food materials
A study from the Institute of Food Research (IFR) has provided new evidence on the background levels of spores of Clostridium botulinum in raw...
Europe: EFSA advises on heat treatment of bivalve molluscs
Experts at the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) have evaluated possible alternatives to the current heat treatments of molluscs required by European Union legislation...
Asia Pacific: SATO printing solution facilitates same-day seafood distribution in Japan
SATO says CSN Chihou Sousei Network (CSN) utilized its barcode label printing solution featuring CL4NX-J Internet of Things industrial printers for a fresh seafood...
Europe: Anti-bacterial foam packaging using bio-mimicry released
Turkish food packaging company Erze Ambalaj and biochemistry developer Parx Plastics from The Netherlands have released an antimicrobial foam packaging using technology derived from...
Asia Pacific: GFSI, UNIDO to build food safety capacity in China
The Global Food Safety Initiative (GFSI) and the United Nations Industrial Development Organisation (UNIDO) will collaborate on an initiative for food safety capacity building...
Africa: Health authority uses green system to pasteurize milk
South Africa's Department of Health has endorsed ongoing studies of the use of SurePure's ultra-violet (UV) photopurification as an alternative to pasteurization for the...
Europe Denmark releases tool to check for harmful chemical substances
The (Quantitative) Structure–Activity Relationship or (Q)SAR database, a new database containing more than 600,000 chemical structures enables companies to quickly get an overview of...
Europe: Mettler Toledo’s new detector manages active product signals
Mettler Toledo Safeline Metal Detection launches the Profile Advantage metal detector that utilizes the Multi Simultaneous Frequency technology to deliver up to 50% greater...
Europe: UK consumers found to have low awareness of acrylamide risk,...
The levels of acrylamide that people consume are usually estimated using dietary survey data and laboratory-cooked samples.
These often fail to fully take account of...
Americas: Multistate foodborne disease outbreaks sicken thousands, finds report
Multistate outbreaks cause more than half of all deaths in foodborne disease outbreaks despite accounting for 3% of reported outbreaks in the US, according...