The Food and Beverage industry has seen increasing interest in adopting biodegradable plastics to use biodegradation as a disposal route. However, most of the commercial polymers from the polyolefin and polyester families are not biodegradable, according...
DuPont Nutrition & Health has signed an agreement with Eurofins Microbiology Laboratories to provide analytical testing services as part its DuPont Detect + Protect offering.
PositiveID Corporation said it has detected E. coli bacteria on the PCR (polymerase chain reaction) chip of its pathogen detection system in less than 20 minutes.
Of 5 cases, 2 have the same strain as last year's outbreak
Scientists from UK public analyst laboratories learnt practical analytical skills in food analysis during a course organised by the Government Chemist programme.
Food safety in countries including Montenegro, Slovenia, Turkey and Moldova has been highlighted as part of the World Health Organization’s (WHO’s) World Health Day.
The Joint Research Centre’s (JRC) Institute for Reference Materials and Measurements (IRMM) has validated methods as part of two standards to look for contaminants in food.
Continuing with initial success and supporting brands already using the product is the way to grow, according to the president of a firm that uses microwave technology to detect foreign bodies in pumpable foods.
Suppliers including pet food manufacturers and water companies are to be consulted on a revision of ISO 22000 on food safety management, due to be published in 2017.
Reduction of foodborne bacteria thanks to oregano oil nanoemulsions on lettuce shows ‘great promise’ for plant essential oils in food safety, according to the authors of a study.
Over 200 scientists from 38 countries have signed a consensus statement asking for PFCs in food packaging to be phased out, according to The Green Science Policy Institute.
Raw fish as a category is bottom of the class in meeting food safety standards globally, according to a BRC (British Retail Consortium) Global Standards report.
Flexicon has launched a Flexi-Disc sanitary Tubular Cable Conveyor for fragile bulk foods and non-foods and is offering free testing at its laboratory in Pennsylvania, US.
A multi-country Salmonella outbreak from eggs demonstrated the importance of using MLVA to identify it and WGS to confirm the findings, according to a report in Eurosurveillance.
A consent decree of permanent injunction has been filed against Wholesome Soy Products which shut late last year after products were linked to an outbreak of Listeria.
Strip Curtains Direct has created a PVC strip curtain with an antimicrobial additive as an additional measure to prevent the spread of bacteria in food factories.
A recall round-up covering the a week in April takes us to France, Belgium, Ireland, New Zealand, England, Sweden, Austria, Slovenia, the USA and Denmark.
A Canadian union has claimed meat and slaughter sites in Quebec are operating with fewer inspectors than required to ensure compliance with safety requirements.
Progress has been made but controls on the production and storage of food of animal origin remain weak in Romania, according to the Food and Veterinary Office (FVO).
Awareness should be increased about listeriosis from RTE foods in risk groups, according to the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC).
Chemically modified carbon nanotubes to detect biogenic amines from decaying meat have been created by chemists from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).
FoodQualityNews spoke to the European Hygienic Engineering & Design Group (EHEDG) and Ecolab at Anuga FoodTec about the importance of hygienic design and systems to ensure hygiene, cleaning and sanitation.
Object Solutions, which works with Nestlé Wagner, Campbell Soup and Dr. Oetker, is hosting a live webinar on its Product Information Management System OS-PDM this month.
The owner and COO of Quality Egg have been sentenced to three months in prison for their roles in a 2010 Salmonella outbreak linked to almost 2,000 illnesses.
Molecular diagnostics, typing and quantification should be used to better understand the burden of virus contamination in foodstuffs, according to an advisory group.
Nuts in spices scandal shows no signs of slowing down
Cargill Meat Solutions is recalling almost 8,300 pounds of ground beef that may be contaminated with blue string, according to the US Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (USDA-FSIS).
A recall round-up covering the first full week in April takes us to France, Belgium, Germany, Australia, Netherlands, Sweden, Canada, the USA and Denmark
Reaction has continued to flood in to mark World Health Day on the theme of food safety – FoodQualityNews brings you some of it that did not make our special focus edition on April 7.
A seroincidence calculator for Salmonella and Campylobacter has been launched by the European Center for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) to get an objective measurement of the problem.
