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UK Food and Drink Federation ‘welcomes’ 25-year environment plan launch
Among the actions outlined is a pledge to eliminate all avoidable waste by 2050 and all avoidable plastic waste by end of 2042.
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Professor Chris Elliott
11 January 2018 | By
Professor of Food Safety and Director of the Institute for Global Food Security, Queen’s University Belfast.
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The latte levy: industry reactions to 25p charge proposal
“Why charge consumers 25p a cup when the industry is willing to provide funding for recycling?” – Executive Director of the Foodservice Packaging Association.
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The Sins of Seafood
4 January 2018 | By Agilent
With seafood and aquaculture being the most valuable and highest traded commodity in the world, it’s an industry which inevitably is the most susceptible to fraud...
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Bioelectronic ‘nose’ to sniff out rotting food
Scientists have used a receptor found in zebrafish to detect the scent of a compound given off by rotting meat.
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E. coli outbreak in US and Canada linked to lettuce
Two people have died as a result of an outbreak of E. coli which has stretched between Newfoundland and Labrador on Canada's eastern coast to the US state of California, 4,500 kilometres south west.
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Experts warn of ‘dirty’ turkey if UK strikes a US trade deal
Brexit may put the UK consumer at risk as new research shows chemical treatments on poultry common in USA fail to meet EU safety standards.
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Source tracking for the food industry
Recent advances in rapid, high throughput DNA sequencing have revolutionised the study of biology, and have the capacity to do the same for food safety and security.
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Materials and Articles in Contact with Food
The FSA appointed Fera NRL for Chemical contaminants in 2008 looking into Food contact materials, Dioxins and PCBs, Mycotoxins, PAHs and Trace elements.
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Baby milk recalled worldwide after salmonella scare
Britain and China are among the countries affected by an international recall of milk formula traced back to a drying tower in northwest France.
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International Symposium on Recent Advances in Food Analysis review
The 8th International Symposium on Recent Advances in Food Analysis (RAFA 2017) was held on 7 – 10 November 2017 in Prague, Clarion Congress hotel Prague, Czech Republic. The meeting was organised jointly by the University of Chemistry and Technology, Prague (UCT Prague, Czech Republic) and RIKILT, Wageningen University &…
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Water company working with national food chains to prevent fatbergs
The scourge of sewage workers the world over, a fatbergs are caused by, among other factors, fats, oils and greases poured down drains.
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Mandatory hygiene rating display drives up safety compliance
In Northern Ireland and Wales, where it has become mandatory for food retailers to display their Food Hygiene Rating, safety compliance has risen.
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Food and drink industry second most affected by product recalls, new research shows
Defective products and work-related incidents have together caused insured losses in excess of US$2 billion over the past five years.
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Application Note: Foreign body investigations
Foreign bodies are one of the biggest problems for food manufacturers. Thousands of tonnes of food production can be lost when a foreign body is discovered, and the cost of a recall – if deemed necessary – can run into millions. Roger Angold, RSSL Microscopy Laboratory, explains...
