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FSSAI gets online access to food standards of over 170 countries
FSSAI will henceforth get access to database for food additives, food standards, food contact and contaminants from over 170 countries.
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US regulators test organs-on-chips for food safety monitoring
Suzanne Fitzpatrick, senior adviser for toxicology in the food-safety division of the FDA has announced research to evaluate 'Organs-on-Chips' technology.
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Food Standards Agency appoints Jason Feeney as CEO
Jason has been part of the FSA since joining as Chief Operating Officer in January 2015.
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Initiative on resource efficiency: reducing food waste, improving food safety
11 April 2017 | By New Food
On 11 April, the ENVI Committee voted on the above-mentioned draft report. This own-initiative report is part of the follow-up to the Commission’s Circular Economy Action Plan. It addresses issues such as date marking, the promotion of food donation and the role of food packaging.
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Interview with Eoghan Daly, Crowe Clark Whitehill LLP | Fighting Food Fraud in 2017
In anticipation of Food Fraud 2017, New Food speaks exclusively to Eoghan Daly of Crowe Clark Whitehill about tackling food fraud in the 21st Century.
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Risk to consumers remains low from pesticide residues in food
11 April 2017 | By New Food
Food consumed in the European Union continues to be largely free of pesticide residues or to contain residues that fall within legal limits, new figures show.
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927 food items mislabelled as Japanese
10 April 2017 | By New Food
927 items were mislabelled as Japanese products, according to a survey by the Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries Ministry
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New labels should reduce food waste
10 April 2017 | By New Food
Americans toss out $165 billion worth of food each year, often out of confusion about the meaning of the more than 10 different date labels used on packages
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Interview with John Points | Fighting Food Fraud in 2017
New Food speaks to John Points, Consultant Analytical Scientist, for an insight into how to tackle food fraud in the 21st Century.
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RUMA response to new antibiotic paper from Royal Society
6 April 2017 | By New Food
The Royal Society has published a new paper “Modelling the impact of curtailing antibiotic usage in food animals on antibiotic resistance in humans”
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MyToolBox – the smart way to tackle mycotoxins
There is a pressing need to mobilise and integrate the wealth of knowledge from the international mycotoxin research conducted over the past 25-30 years, in order to perform cutting-edge research to close knowledge gaps. This is the mission of MyToolBox – a four-year project, funded by the European Commission from…
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Vacuum packaging’s key role in the great food waste challenge
The world wastes one third of all food produced. What you might not know is that food packaging can play a significant role in reducing the food industry's environmental footprint...
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Sweet truths: Solving confectionery’s problem with sugar reduction
New Food asked Noam Kaplan, CEO at Lampados to talk us through the role sweeteners can play and to offer us an insight into how we might provide an attractive alternative to sugar.
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Persistently high levels of pesticides found in small streams
4 April 2017 | By EAWAG: Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology
Small watercourses are contaminated with large numbers of herbicides, fungicides and insecticides.
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UK Government urged to protect British dairy farming in Brexit negotiations
4 April 2017 | By New Food
This week, Arla Foods and its farmer owners are urging the UK Government to recognise and protect the future of dairy farmers
