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Whilst the UK is working to slow the use of antibiotics in food-producing animals, in some countries approximately 80 per cent of total consumption of medically important antibiotics is in the animal sector.
The Food Standards Agency has launched National Food Safety Week, with the focus this year being on the work of FSA staff and thousands of others across the food supply chain working behind-the-scenes to ensure that food is safe and what it says it is.
The WHO calls on Heads of State and Government to take ultimate responsibility for NCDs in the report, which was also published in the medical journal The Lancet.
A study of more than 34,000 people investigates the environmental impacts of both food choices and farm production systems.
New research suggests graphic warnings on junk food packaging would prove an effective deterrent to consumers when deciding what to eat – and it appears the more graphic and negative the message the better.
The outbreak this year is not related to two other food-borne outbreaks in EU countries in 2012–2014, which were associated with consumption of frozen strawberries and frozen mixed berries.
The Vivera Veggie Steak, made from wheat and soy, has enjoyed widespread press coverage this week on the back of news that 400 branches of Tesco have begun stocking it. But with the growth in the UK veggie ready-made sector meaning a flood of products to market, what's new about…
Only 72 Republican representatives and seven Democrat representatives supported the bill, falling far short of the required majority.
This is the first assessment of the targets which were introduced in 2016 to help curb the UK's obesity crisis.
Whilst the report did refer to the industry's work to slash salt, it did not address the latest targets, an oversight which has not gone unnoticed.
Researchers have developed detection technology that allows a typical smartphone to analyse produce for deadly foodborne pathogens.
The latest statistics bring the total reduction in two years to more than 50 per cent.
A report shows how top brands in the UK are working to make their products healthier through reformulation, portion control and offering alternatives.
The chemical has toxic effects on humans when eaten in large quantities.
The researchers used the fossilised algae as the base for a photonic crystal device that successfully monitored histamine in salmon and tuna.
