The European Commission is considering lowering the maximum authorised levels for nitrites and nitrates in processed meat for health reasons, it has revealed.
New data suggests that the current European surveillance system is failing to detect listeriosis outbreaks quickly and accurately, prompting food safety authorities to re-think their approach to tackling the food borne illness.
The amount of sugar contained in food has risen up the consumer agenda and replaced price as consumers’ biggest food concern, research from the UK’s Food Standards Agency (FSA) reveals.
Following allegations last week that millions of American children are being exposed to a suspected carcinogen through a raft of popular oat-based foods, New York Senator Chuck Schumer has now accused the FDA of withholding information on a weed killer...
Spanish authorities have seized 45 tons of “illegally treated” tuna fish as part of a crackdown on fraudulent food coordinated by Europol and Interpol.
UK agri-tech start up PBD Biotech has developed what it claims is the “first rapid test for live mycobacteria”, closing a seed funding round that will accelerate its go-to-market strategy.
The European Union has the “most stringent and controlled” food chain in the world, the bloc’s health and food safety chief suggested after food safety regulators found more than 96% of food is within legal limits for pesticide residue.
European food safety regulators have linked a multi-country outbreak of Salmonella enterica, subspecies S. Agona, to ready-to-eat foods containing cucumbers but have been unable to nail down the precise source of contamination.
Kellogg’s, Mondelēz, Pepperidge Farm and Flowers Foods have recently recalled bakery and snack products after a whey powder ingredient supplied by Associated Milk Producers has been suspected to be contaminated with the Salmonella bacteria.
The European Court of Justice (ECJ) has ruled on the so-called new plant breeding techniques (NPBTs). It said crops obtained by mutagenesis are GMOs as the techniques and methods of mutagenesis alter the genetic material of a plant in a way that does...
Additional products continued to be pulled from the shelves as part of Green Yard Food's pan-European recall of frozen vegetables produced at its Hungarian facility.
