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Hepatitis E: raw pork is main cause of infection in EU
Consumption of raw or undercooked pork meat and liver is the most common cause of hepatitis E infection in the EU, said EFSA.
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Brazilian probe stalls meat processing
Forecasts for production of chicken in Brazil, the world's largest exporter of the meat, have fallen in the wake of an investigation into safety concerns.
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Country Profile: United Kingdom
In this UK profile, we investigate how Industry 4.0 could be a powerful tool, and Gavan Wafer, Head of Crime Operations at the National Food Crime Unit offers his insight into tackling food fraud in the 21st Century...
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Life threatening bacteria found in New York fish facility
A New York smoked fish company has been ordered to stop selling its products, which were produced in a facility contaminated with Listeria monocytogenes (L. mono), until it can comply with food safety regulations.
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The increased usage of microscopy
In a society with a “no win, no fee” culture – the robust scientific techniques of microscopy are becoming increasing called upon to proactively understand the causes and implications of foreign bodies.
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Webinar Review: Gelatin speciation and adulteration using bioinformatics, proteomics and high resolution mass spectrometry
Dr. Francis Beaudry, University of Montreal, demonstrates the idea that HPLC–Orbitrap can be used to detect specific peptide biomarkers in the digested gelatin, and food samples and that this method can be an effective strategy to detect gelatin adulteration.
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Food fraud goes wider than food adulteration
Is there more to the food fraud issue than meets the eye?
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New way to detect Palmer amaranth in contaminated seedlots
Palmer amaranth, the aggressive and hard-to-kill weed, has established itself in droves. As a possible solution, some states declared Palmer a noxious weed, which prohibits its sale and transport.
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Evaluation of ISO method 21527-1 compared with other yeast and mould detection systems
Yiping Chen and Ruth Fowler of the Institute of Life and Earth Sciences at Heriot-Watt University offer their insight.
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RUMA adopts European Medicines Agency ‘highest priority’ antibiotics list
The European Medicines Agency’s (EMA’s) list of highest priority ‘critically important antibiotics’ (CIAs) has been officially adopted by RUMA.
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Fighting food fraud: Testing without the wait
Food fraud is everywhere. Dr. Neil Sharma, Head of Research and Product Development at InstantLabs, argues that it is by improving testing accuracy and frequency that we can help to stamp it out....
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Eat the food you trust; trust the food you eat | Lessons from Food Fraud 2017
Food Fraud 2017 highlighted just how serious an issue food fraud has become. It's organised, criminal and widespread, but there are solutions that we must explore...
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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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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…
