Contaminants

Is fishmeal to blame for rise in antibiotic resistance?

4 September 2017 | By New Food

A new study points to fishmeal as a potential cause for the rise in drug-resistant bacteria which might spell disaster for world health.

Emerging organisms: when do you start testing?

22 August 2017 | By Catherine Cockcroft | Head of Microbiological Services | Eurofins Food Testing UK, New Food

Technological advances now mean it is possible to test for an ever growing list of potentially harmful emerging organisms. But this raises the question: when is the right time to start testing for them? Eurofins Food Testing UK’s Head of Microbiological Services, Catherine Cockcroft, explains the dilemma facing the food…

Edible oils – minimising contaminants to improve quality

20 August 2017 | By Dr. Mohammad Alam - Texas A&M University

Consumers are becoming more health conscious when it comes to oils and fats, perhaps due to increased awareness from conferences, research and media outlets focusing on the impact of fats and oils. The result is that the edible oil industry, specifically refineries, is having to join the discussion and even…

Webinar Review: Is your honey really honey?

18 August 2017 | By New Food, Thermo Fisher Scientific

The third instalment in Thermo Fisher’s webinar series looks at protecting the integrity of our honey.

Hepatitis E: raw pork is main cause of infection in EU

13 July 2017 | By EFSA, New Food

Consumption of raw or undercooked pork meat and liver is the most common cause of hepatitis E infection in the EU, said EFSA.

Brazilian probe stalls meat processing

12 July 2017 | By Charlie Kortens

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.

Country Profile: United Kingdom

11 July 2017 | By New Food

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...

Life threatening bacteria found in New York fish facility

7 July 2017 | By Charlie Kortens

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. 

The increased usage of microscopy

5 July 2017 | By New Food

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.

Webinar Review: Gelatin speciation and adulteration using bioinformatics, proteomics and high resolution mass spectrometry

26 June 2017 | By New Food

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.

Romer Labs

Food fraud goes wider than food adulteration

20 June 2017 | By John Points

Is there more to the food fraud issue than meets the eye?

New way to detect Palmer amaranth in contaminated seedlots

7 June 2017 | By New Food, University of Illinois College of Agricultural Consumer and Environmental Sciences (ACES)

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.

Evaluation of ISO method 21527-1 compared with other yeast and mould detection systems

28 May 2017 | By Yiping Chen; Ruth Fowler | Institute of Life and Earth Sciences | EGIS | Heriot-Watt University

Yiping Chen and Ruth Fowler of the Institute of Life and Earth Sciences at Heriot-Watt University offer their insight.

RUMA adopts European Medicines Agency ‘highest priority’ antibiotics list

19 May 2017 | By New Food

The European Medicines Agency’s (EMA’s) list of highest priority ‘critically important antibiotics’ (CIAs) has been officially adopted by RUMA.