Food Safety & Quality

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Food Safety Recall round-up 28 April - 4 May 2018

Recalls: Plastic, bacillus cereus and allergens

By Joseph James Whitworth

Recalls and alerts were made by England, Ireland, US, Canada, Australia, Belgium, Denmark, France, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Norway, Switzerland, Germany and Austria

Food Safety Recall round-up

Food Safety Recall round-up 21-27 April 2018

Recalls: Enterobacter Sakazakii, E. coli and allergens

By Joseph James Whitworth

Recalls and alerts were made by England, Ireland, US, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Denmark, Finland, France, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Norway, Sweden, Germany and Austria.

Analytik Jena's PQ LC Series

dispatches from Analytica 2018

Analytik Jena targets efficient routine analysis

By Joseph James Whitworth

Analytik Jena has combined high-performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) and inductively coupled plasma – mass spectrometry (ICP-MS) for high precision to detect trace elements.

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Food Safety Recall round-up 1-20 April 2018

Recalls: Listeria, foreign bodies and nicotine

By Joseph James Whitworth

Recalls and alerts were made by England, Ireland, Scotland, US, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Belgium, Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, France, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Norway, Sweden, Switzerland, Germany and Austria.

International Accreditation Forum and Global Food Safety Initiative partnership

News in Brief

GFSI and IAF zone in on food safety system equivalence

By Joseph James Whitworth

The International Accreditation Forum (IAF) and the Global Food Safety Initiative (GFSI) are to ensure harmonisation of accreditation practices across GFSI-benchmarked food safety certification programmes.

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Food Safety Recall round-up 23-29 March 2018

Recalls: Campylobacter, Rhodamine B and plastic

By Joseph James Whitworth

Recalls and alerts were made by England, Ireland, US, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Belgium, Denmark, Finland, Netherlands, Norway, Sweden, Germany and Austria.

Orange County Convention Center

Dispatches from Pittcon 2018 in Orlando

FoodQualityNews at Pittcon 2018

By Joseph James Whitworth

FoodQualityNews was at Pittcon 2018 in Orlando, Florida and spoke to Thermo Fisher, Waters, Axcend, Zebra Analytix, Jeol USA, Leco, ACD/Labs, Viavi and Labvantage.

Cases included tuna fraud adulteration of beeswax. Picture: iStock/AndreyPopov

Spain makes most requests in EU fraud system

By Joseph James Whitworth

Spain, Germany, Netherlands and Italy made the most requests last year in a system to deal with fraudulent activities along the agri-food chain.

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Salmonella sickens 63 in Sweden

By Joseph James Whitworth

Swedish agencies are investigating an outbreak of Salmonella Kentucky that has sickened 63 people.

Joe Romano of Waters Corporation at Pittcon

Dispatches from Pittcon 2018 in Orlando

Waters tackles ‘challenging’ polar pesticides

By Joseph James Whitworth

Chromatographic analysis of polar pesticides, including glyphosate, can be challenging, according to Waters Corporation.

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Food Safety Recall round-up 16-22 March 2018

Recalls: Arsenic levels, norovirus and defective packaging

By Joseph James Whitworth

Recalls and alerts were made by England, Ireland, US, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Czech Republic, Denmark, Hungary, France, Italy, Luxembourg, Switzerland, Germany and Austria.

Sciex 6500+

News in Brief

SGS installs second Sciex TQMS

By Joseph James Whitworth

SGS has installed a second Sciex 6500+ Triple Quadrupole Mass Spectrometer at its Brookings South Dakota laboratory.

Four Salmonella outbreaks in three years linked to frozen raw breaded poultry

Salmonella in chicken sickens 30 in Canada

By Joseph James Whitworth

The Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC) is investigating an outbreak of Salmonella Enteritidis linked to frozen raw breaded chicken.

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