Practical Guide to Metal Detection-Food Industry
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30-Oct-2002
UK blames Spanish eggs for salmonella
The UK's Food Standards Agency has reported 'growing evidence' that the recent outbreak of salmonella, which has so far caused two deaths and made 350...
Aquentium acquires Food Safe
US based Aquentium, a publicly traded diversified holding company has confirmed that it has acquired Food Safe. Food Safe has developed food safety equipment and...
24-Oct-2002
Acrylamide update
In May 2002 a team of scientists at Stockholm University's Department ofEnvironmental Chemistry, working with the Swedish National FoodAdministration, released information that acrylamide, a potentialcarcinogen,...
23-Oct-2002
Metal detector enhances cheese safety
Dutch cheese producer Schipper Kaas has updated its quality control system with the installation of Lock Inspection Systems' new generation metal detector. Schipper Kaas is...
21-Oct-2002
First UK food safety communications conference
Some 250 top food safety experts from across the UK gathered in London last week for the first ever foodlink National Food Safety Communications Conference....
Online verification for the food industry
Dimaco, the Belgium-based quality assurance systems provider, has cornered the problem of code and label accuracy with the launch of its online verifier. The verifier,...
UK finds spinal cord in imported German beef
Spinal cord has been found in German beef imported into the UK, said the UK's Food Standards Agency (FSA) on Friday. Bovine spinal cord is...
Getting the food safety message across
Around 250 food safety experts from across the UK gathered in London last week for the first National Food Safety Communications Conference organised by foodlink ,...
18-Oct-2002
US law firm establishes food safety practices
Following a series of major lawsuits against food companies in the US, the law firm of Bowman and Brooke has established a firm-wide Food Safety...
Cutting equipment designed to fight mad cow disease
The UK-based Silsoe Research Institute has developed a power saw that can more efficiently strip the spines out of cattle and sheep carcasses, claiming to...
17-Oct-2002
Surebeam rides high on safety concerns
Shares of Surebeam, the US provider of electronic beam food safety systems, yesterday soared more than 30 per cent after the company won its latest...
EU food hygiene agreement with Poland
The EU European Council has agreed to the conclusion of talks with Poland on union food hygiene norms, on the condition that the country introduces...
16-Oct-2002
Killer salmonella outbreak in the UK
In the UK one person has died and around 150 have fallen ill with a rare form of food poisoning linked to the use of...
Challenges to EU food and agriculture
European Commissioner for Research Philippe Busquin has issued a thinly veiled attack on opponents to 'new technologies' in Europe, warning that European competitiveness in agriculture...
14-Oct-2002
Tough talk from Commission
All Member States must fully and swiftly implement the 1998 European Directive on the legal protection of biotechnological inventions or Europe will fall behind its...
EU delivers food irradiation report
The European Commission has released the results of an investigative report into the use and labelling of food irradiation in Europe today. Out of more...
11-Oct-2002
Solutions to acrylamide?
When scientists from Sweden reported earlier this year that several ordinary foodstuffs could contain high levels of acrylamide - a potentially cancer-causing chemical - governments,...
10-Oct-2002
Calls for tougher rules on seafood
Food safety fears over beef are now settled in the psyche of consumers across the world - stretching from Japan, over Europe and into the...
GM wheat: an unacceptable crop?
Europeans are not the only consumers wary about genetically modified foods and the notion of GM wheat. A Reuters report on Thursday elaborates on how...
09-Oct-2002
Sprouts: the latest food risk
The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has made the move to update its health advisory on the risks associated with eating all raw sprouts...
FDA offers industry opt-out on irradiation labelling
US food companies can seek federal approval to avoid using the word "irradiation" on labels of foods treated with the disease-killing process, and instead use...
07-Oct-2002
US meat recalls point to 'broken' food safety system
US Senate Agriculture Committee Chairman Tom Harkin said on Friday that a series of massive food recalls in the US this summer underscored the need...
FP6: a 'true European research area'
Confirmation that the European scientific world is alive and kicking arrived this week when the Commission announced that it had received over 12,000 'expressions of...
04-Oct-2002
Swiss pledge to delay GM foods
The UK's fears about GM foods, and the insistence of the government that GM trials should continue - highlighted by the publication of the Consumers'...
Battleground shifts to food bacteria
In the UK, Alaska Food Diagnostics, a joint venture between Circus Capital and DSTL, is using Ministry of Defence technology to develop a rapid test...
Politicians told to 'take their fingers out of their ears' on GM concerns
As further trials of genetically modified crops begin in the UK, a survey from the Consumers' Association has shown that consumer confidence in the so-called...
03-Oct-2002
EC updates aflatoxin regulations
The European Commission has reviewed the steps it made earlier this year to ensure aflatoxin-contaminated Chinese peanuts and Turkish figs, pistachios and hazelnuts do not...
Safeway expands electronic labelling
Hot on the heels of the news last month that Safeway will become the first UK food retailer to use the chip and PIN payment...
Indian seafood processors ignore EU
Representatives of the Indian seafood industry have said that in the light of the ban on five major Indian seafood units in the European Union,...
Asian food exporters face tighter EU laws
In answer to European consumers' increasing worries about food safety, suppliers in Asia are likely to face stricter conditions next year, both at government and...
02-Oct-2002
Asian conference highlights need for focus on regulation
The IADSA Asian conference on food supplement regulations held in Bangkok, Thailand last week produced a clear recognition of the need for a common approach...
EFSA names executive director
The European Food Safety Agency has appointed Geoffrey Podger as its executive director, a major step forward in the process of finalising the management team...
01-Oct-2002
US consumer groups seek cancer warning labels
US consumer groups are demanding immediate action from the government to inform consumers that popular foods such as fried potatoes and crisps contain high levels...
ARS developing bacteria sensing system
The US-based Agricultural Research Services has devised a method of detecting fecal bacteria in fresh produce, which it claimed could reduce the chances of contamination...
Britons warned: chickens could be full of drugs
The use of antibiotics in animals destined for the food chain is in the news a great deal this week, with reports yesterday from the...
Call for 'informed debate' on antibiotic use
Yesterday we reported that scientists investigating the effect of antibiotics in animals had discovered that there was an extremely small risk to humans and that...
Acrylamide - getting to the root of the problem
New research by US food producer Procter & Gamble has shed some light on the formation of acrylamide in foods, a significant step forward in...
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