Leatherhead Food Research is advising industry to ensure supply chain integrity after stricter guidelines for food safety and hygiene offences came into force from the start of the month.
Ground meat used to prepare a Bolognese sauce has been identified as the likely source of foodborne botulism due to Clostridium baratii type F in France last year.
Research is a critical part of food safety, many of the tools we have today have gone through much work being seeing the light of day. FQN takes a look at some recent work.
TraQtion cloud-based quality and compliance software has been upgraded with food safety and quality professionals’ needing to deal with numerous data points from multiple sources to ensure a supplier or product is safe.
Human hands can be a source for transferring pathogens from the contaminated source to surfaces, utensils, ingredients and finished food products, according to Best Sanitizers.
Nottingham Trent University has been recognised as a Centre of Expertise (CoE) for authenticity testing and will become part of the government’s Food Authenticity Network.
Almost 900 illnesses have been linked to Salmonella Poona from “slicer” cucumbers, supplied by Andrew and Williamson Fresh Produce and grown in Baja, Mexico.
The Coca-Cola Company, Nordson Corporation, Pepsico International and Rockwell Automation are among the latest members of the European Hygienic Engineering and Design Group (EHEDG).
SSAFE and PwC have created a tool to help companies assess food fraud vulnerabilities saying not all current food safety management systems are designed for fraud detection or mitigation.
A link between Dutch and UK cases of Hepatitis A from mussels in 2012 would have gone unnoticed without sequence analyses and international collaboration, according to a report.
Chile has become the twenty-first country where Mérieux NutriSciences operates after the firm acquired Labser Laboratorio de Analisis y de Servicios avanzados (Labser).
Typical spore loads of Clostridium botulinum in raw food ingredients are smaller than previously reported, according to a study from the Institute of Food Research (IFR).
More than half of consumers want to hear the food producer's side of a story when they are the subject of negative publicity, according to an advertising and marketing agency.
The Food and Veterinary Office (FVO) has looked at primary production in Bulgaria as part of a series of audits prompted by the number of outbreaks and RASFF notifications.
SCIEX and the US Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) have signed a licensing agreement for technologies around analytical chemistry equipment.
Increased regulation and consumer awareness are challenging food companies to bring their “A” game and prioritize consumer safety when it comes to recalls, according to Stericycle ExpertSOLUTIONS.
More than three-quarters of manufacturing customers have experienced some level of impact from the Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA), according to Aptean.
Eurofins Food Testing UK has joined authenticity service providers listed on the Food Authenticity Network, which was set up due recommendations from the Elliot review.
A wholesaler has been fined for selling rotten fruit and vegetables, following an investigation by the Rural Payments Agency’s (RPA) Horticultural Marketing Inspectors (HMI).
NSF International has said its acquisition of AuthenTechnologies enables it to provide cost-effective DNA testing to help clients improve the authenticity, safety and quality of their globally sourced ingredients.
The incoming UK Food Standards Agency (FSA) chair has said she is ‘surprised’ the Food Crime Unit (FCU) is not moving faster and it reflects the need to inject a bit more agility and pace into the agency.
BioMérieux has said the acquisition of Applied Maths will help answer expectations of customers facing a growing digitalization of the laboratory and requiring more insights to make informed decisions.
