15-May-2012 - Australia looks set to okay the sale of non-pasteurised hard cheeses after food safety authorities approved a proposal to sell raw milk products in the country.
15-May-2012 - The European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) has outlined a raft of key factors needed to assess the hazard posed by pathogens in composite foods after Brussels said it needed to develop harmonised risk-based rules for their import into the region.
11-May-2012 - PriceWaterhouseCoopers (PwC) has warned the US food industry that 2012 will be “all hands on deck” to implement the provisions of the Food Safety Modernisation Act (FSMA).
09-May-2012 - US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) draft guidance on the use of nanotechnology in food and food contact substances represents only “marginal progress” towards regulation of the technology, a petition group has claimed.
04-May-2012 - The US Department of Agriculture (USDA) has outlined a series of measures to conduct future meat product trace backs in a “pre-emptive” manner to catch E.coli O157:H7 contamination at an earlier stage.
04-May-2012 - Food safety law violators in Shanghai will continue to be met with severe punishments including lengthy prison terms, the city’s high court has vowed.
02-May-2012 - The Canadian government has taken steps to streamline its food safety laws – reducing the ‘red tape’ that currently delays safe products entering the market.
30-Apr-2012 - The UK Food Standards Agency (FSA) has issued guidance on and executed the first stage of its moratorium on the production and use of desinewed meat (DSM) – much to the disapproval of the British Meat Processors Association (BMPA).
26-Apr-2012 - A rare case of mad cow disease in the US is unlikely to have a significant impact on the processing sector, according to the American Meat Institute (AMI).
25-Apr-2012 - The European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) has begun work on a new bisphenol A (BPA) risk assessment - focussing on the low dose effects of the packaging chemical.
24-Apr-2012 - Four individuals who allegedly conspired to scrape mould off returned imported cheese before resale have been indicted in the US on charges that could see them jailed for up to 20 years.
24-Apr-2012 - US and Canadian food safety authorities have laid out plans to ensure the quality and safety of imported foods – publishing mirror-image campaigns within days of each other.
23-Apr-2012 - The application of nanotechnology in the manufacture of food and food contact substances “merits” investigation, according to draft guidance from the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA).
20-Apr-2012 - The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) will “user fee the industry to death” through the proposed implementation of further food firm fees, food safety law specialist FDAImports.com has claimed.
20-Apr-2012 - A UK-based sausage manufacturer has given backing to a European Commission (EC)-imposed ban on cattle, sheep and goat desinewed meat (DSM), blasting the British Meat Processors Association (BMPA) for their support of the “unsavoury” product.
16-Apr-2012 - The European Commission (EC) has dug deep and confirmed the objections of several EU member states to the proposed bisphenol-A (BPA) ban in France – just days after claiming to have no knowledge of the oppositions.
16-Apr-2012 - A California-based seafood processor has agreed to halt the production and distribution of its fish and fish products over Listeria monocytogenes contamination fears, under an agreement with the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA).
12-Apr-2012 - Speaking at the FoodProductionDaily.com Meat Technology Conference at Anuga FoodTec 2012 in Cologne, Dr Marta Hugas, the head of biological hazards at the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA), highlighted the urgent need for modernisation in European meat inspection.
12-Apr-2012 - The UK’s Food Standards Agency (FSA) has developed guidelines on glitters and dusts over fears that inedible decorations are being marketed for use in foods such as cakes.
11-Apr-2012 - The European Commission (EC) has down-played reports of discontent among European Union (EU) member states over the approaching French ban on bisphenol-A (BPA) in food packaging.
11-Apr-2012 - A US-based cheese manufacturer has been forced to close by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) due to fears of listeria contamination in its products.
11-Apr-2012 - People convicted of food safety crimes in Beijing could be handed be a life ban from the food industry under the proposed revision of legislation in China’s capital.
10-Apr-2012 - A Food and Drug Administration (FDA)-imposed block on carbendazim-tainted orange juice and concentrate has seen a further three shipments denied entry into the US – taking the total to 30.
10-Apr-2012 - The Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA) has changed the game for US packaging machinery manufacturers by obliging them to rethink their design strategies, PMMI’s Jim Pittas told FoodProductionDaily.com from Anuga FoodTec.
06-Apr-2012 - The UK has vowed to suspend the production desinewed meat (DSM) following pressure from the European Commission (EC) – a move the British Meat Processors Association (BMPA) has labeled a “criminal waste of a valuable product.”