Recalls and alerts were made by England, Ireland, US, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Czech Republic, Denmark, Hungary, France, Italy, Luxembourg, Switzerland, Germany and Austria.
The World Health Organization (WHO) has warned against a blanket trade ban on South African meat as some countries suspended imports after identification of the Listeria outbreak source.
Recalls and alerts were made by England, Ireland, US, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Croatia, Denmark, Finland, France, Luxembourg, Norway, Netherlands, Belgium, Spain, Sweden, Germany and Austria.
The US Food and Drug Administration is inviting public comment on the view that the European Union’s Shellfish Safety Program is equivalent to the US system.
Demand for quick screening techniques such as nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy is growing for applications including detecting food fraud, according to Jeol USA.
FoodLogiQ and Testo have joined forces to bring together HACCP and IoT capabilities with the food industry’s supplier management, traceability and recall management SaaS platform.
The trend of bringing the lab to the sample instead of the sample to the lab is continuing, according to the head of the MicroNIR business at Viavi Solutions.
Brain has opened a US subsidiary called B.R.A.I.N. Biotechnology Research and Information Network US (BRAIN LLC) to expand its business across North America.
UK food standard agencies have said that they hope to “sustain public trust” in the meat sector after a series of high-profile recalls sparked a review of meat-cutting plants in the country.
Researchers at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) have developed “genetic bar codes” that, they say, can be used to identify fake “superfoods”.
Bacteria from humans and animals continue to show resistance to antimicrobials according to a report by the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) and the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC).
Hygiena, which specializes in rapid food safety and environmental sanitation testing, has opened a facility in Canada called Hygiena Canada, to better serve customers in the region.
Bacterial resistance to antimicrobials in humans, animals and food is one of the “biggest threats” to public health that requires a joined-up approach from European Union Member States, according to a report out today (27 February).
Recalls and alerts were made by England, Ireland, US, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Croatia, Denmark, France, Norway, Netherlands, Belgium, Sweden, Italy and Austria.
The main opposition party in South Africa has hit out at the ‘lack of information’ on the Listeria outbreak which has sickened 915 and killed 172 people.
