Food recalls for a week in May 2016 came from Canada, Germany, New Zealand, Australia, the Netherlands, Denmark, Belgium, Sweden, Ireland, Spain, USA, Luxembourg and England.
Agilent Technologies has introduced InfinityLab - a product family of liquid chromatography instruments, columns and supplies – at Analytica 2016 in Munich.
FoodQualityNews hit the show floor of Analytica last week to bring you all the news and views relevant to food safety and quality control. Below are some of the product launches.
Analytica 2016 has become more international since the last edition two years ago, according to the project director of Analytica Munich and the Analytica shows in Asia.
I will leave the intro to Dr Reinhard Pfeiffer, deputy CEO of Messe München, who said: “Thanks to presentations of several world premieres in particular, Analytica demonstrated that it is number one and therefore the most important driving force behind...
Thermo Fisher Scientific has broadened the capabilities of a specialist food safety lab to increase flexibility and response times to customers in more application areas.
The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has published draft guidance to assist qualified facilities to comply with a Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA) rule.
Clear Labs has found rat and human DNA, substitution and pathogens in its latest round of testing with vegetable burger products particularly problematic.
Scienion and the University of California San Diego have developed a tool that allows scientists to see, at the scale of five billionths of a meter, 'nanoscale' mixing processes in liquids for the first time.
A recall round-up sees four separate incidents, three due to possible foreign material contamination, with Unilever, Blue Bell Ice Cream, Pilgrim’s Pride Corp and Foster Farms involved.
Communication in the supply chain is ‘the basics’ when dealing with potential allergens, according to the European external quality manager at General Mills.
Best practice must be to ensure test pieces are placed in the centre of the coil where it is least sensitive to foreign bodies when doing validation for freefall metal detectors, according to Sartorius.
Xgenex has joined with Food Safety Resources to commercialize software to help the produce industry with the relevant rules within the Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA).
The largest Salmonella outbreak in Washington in recent history highlighted the need for prevention strategies and food handling education, according to researchers.
The Grocery Manufacturers Association (GMA) and Battelle have launched a software tool to analyze economically motivated adulteration (EMA) vulnerabilities in the manufacturing process.
The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has extended by 60 days the comment period on the risk of foodborne illness associated with eating produce from fields were raw manure is used as a fertilizer.
Food recalls for a period in April 2016 came from Austria, Canada, Germany, New Zealand, Denmark, Belgium, Sweden, Ireland, Finland, USA, Hungary, Luxembourg and England
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Increasing speed and decreasing costs of genome sequencing technology is having a ‘transformative effect’ on foodborne disease outbreak investigation, according to the UK Food Standards Agency’s chief scientific adviser.
The UK Food Standards Agency (FSA) has suspended its survey measuring Campylobacter levels on chickens from retail as test methods could not be relied upon to give accurate retailer comparisons.
Delays in a Salmonella outbreak investigation which sickened more than 200 people in Italy could have affected the identification of a food vehicle, according to researchers.
