Category: Food Safety
The key ingredient in Food Safety
As Quality Manager at KMC, the Danish-based food ingredients company, Marianne Dam explains how ISO 22000 is used and the many benefits it brings to food management systems.
Improving health with new standards for cleaner cookstoves
Each year, millions of lives are adversely affected by smoke released from cooking on open fires or simple stoves fuelled by wood, charcoal and dung.
Cultivating growth in Nigeria
Agricultural products are the base of the Nigerian economy, supplying food for the Nigerian people as well as valuable cash crops for export to other countries.
Taking Food Safety to a higher level
Can we trust current food security systems and are they sustainable?
Canadian Government Updates Food Safety Regulations
On Wednesday, June 13th, The Canadian Government announced Safe Food for Canadians Regulations that will come into effect January, 15th, 2019.
Climate Change Could Lead to Major Crop Failures in World’s Biggest Corn Regions
Two new studies looking at corn and vegetables warn of a rising risk of food shocks and malnutrition with unchecked global warming.
Avoiding meat and dairy is ‘single biggest way’ to reduce your impact on Earth
Biggest analysis to date reveals huge footprint of livestock - it provides just 18% of calories but takes up 83% of farmland.
One dead, 13 others sick in raw cheese E. coli outbreak
French authorities have recalled all reblochon cheeses made by a site in eastern France after seven children were hospitalised with E.coli infections traced to a producer.
Food safety may be put at risk by Brexit
Food safety standards could be put at risk by Brexit if the UK quits the EU without a deal to keep exchanging information on public health issues, the Local Government Association has warned.
Major step forward on food consumption data
EFSA has published a new release of its Comprehensive European Food Consumption Database, which for the first time includes data collected under EFSA’s EU Menu project.
Emerging food safety issues: what do consumers want to know?
EFSA asked Europeans for their views on emerging risks in the food chain, and how they would like to be informed about them.
EU to ban lower-quality branded food!
Studies suggest hundreds of well-known products are inferior to versions sold in the west.