Shimadzu has released an instrument to support the transfer of existing HPLC to faster UHPLC methods while assuring cross compatibility between old and new method conditions.
A Listeria monocytogenes typing assessment has shown the majority of labs were able to produce gels of sufficient quality for inter-laboratory comparisons but the general quality needs improvement.
Goals for this year include completing the USDA approval process as a processing aid for raw poultry and testing PURE Control for beef and pork and file FCNs with the FDA, according to PURE Bioscience.
The Safe Food Coalition has urged the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) to ‘not delay any longer’ on revising a label for raw and partially cooked meat and poultry products.
Eurofins Food Safety Systems (EFSS) has partnered with a university to provide co-branded public training for the Canadian food manufacturing industry.
Food recalls and issues for the start of June came from UK, USA, Canada, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, Austria, Germany, Hungary, Norway and Denmark.
An updated version of a protocol on antimicrobial resistance (AMR) has been published taking into account new interpretive criteria and recommendations from EUCAST.
Excellims Corporation has signed an exclusive worldwide license agreement with Washington State University for a new instrumental method to interface an Ambient Pressure Ion Mobility Spectrometer (APIMS) to a Mass Spectrometer (MS).
Three out of four survey respondents felt their companies were not completely ready for FSMA compliance, according to a survey by SafetyChain Software and The Acheson Group (TAG).
Working with neighbourhood countries contributes to building trust in the safety of foods made in the EU, according to the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA).
Food recalls and issues for the end of May 2016 came from UK, USA, Austria, Switzerland, Germany, Iceland, Hungary, Croatia + Bosnia Herzegovina, Norway, Denmark and Czech Republic.
BRC Global Standards commissioned The Acheson Group (TAG) to assess one of its standards against a FSMA final rule with findings showing almost complete alignment.
Before we head to the production line we must do the background work. Here, FQN takes a look at recent examples of research relevant to food safety and quality control.
The industry is moving towards smaller instruments dedicated to specific questions and on-site analysis, according to the group president of IDEX Health & Science.
Food recalls for a week in May 2016 came from UK, Canada, Germany, New Zealand, Australia, Hong Kong, Iceland, Norway, Finland, Denmark and Czech Republic.
Foodborne disease outbreaks and deaths have increased but illnesses and hospitalizations decreased from the year before, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
VUV Analytics will provide its VGA-100 Vacuum Ultraviolet (VUV) detector to help a researcher determine organic contaminants in fish as they transfer through the food chain.
A state-run laboratory will pay a fine of $27,000 and spend $73,000 on equipment to settle claims that it violated state and federal hazardous waste laws at its facility in Augusta.
The risk assessment of food producers is getting more focussed on where in the supply chain there could be shortfalls and which techniques could be used to ensure final product safety, according to PerkinElmer.
Visitors to the Olympics and Paralympics Summer Games in Rio, Brazil will be most at risk of gastrointestinal illness and vector-borne infections, according to the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC).
The food and beverage industry has changed dramatically in recent years, according to Merck, with some ‘serious hurdles’ now in place in terms of regulation and safety.
