France meat and dairy ‘country of origin labeling’ trial comes into force
France rolls out its two-year trial for mandatory country of origin labelling (COOL) for meat and dairy in prepared foods, this month.
Archives for January 2, 2017
LR acquires Acoura and Bureau Veritas expands in Brazil
Lloyd’s Register (LR) acquiring Acoura and Bureau Veritas expanding its agri-food business in Brazil are two deals made public in the last few weeks.
Little chance of post-Brexit food fraud frenzy
Criminals operating in the UK’s food chain are “home grown” and unlikely to be involved in organised crime, according to the head of the country’s food crime unit (FCU).
BioPorto platform validated on Qiagen’s lateral flow system
BioPorto Diagnostics and Qiagen have validated BioPorto’s generic Rapid Assay Device (gRAD) lateral flow platform on Qiagen’s ESEQuant LR3 Lateral Flow System.
More than 50 Campylobacter cases linked to raw milk
More than 50 cases of Campylobacter have been linked to unpasteurised (raw) milk from a farm in Kendal, UK.