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19 June 2014 | By The European Food Safety Authority
Rainfall, the use of contaminated water for irrigation or for applying pesticides, and contaminated equipment are among the factors that cause contamination of berries with Salmonella and norovirus...
21 February 2014 | By The European Food Safety Authority
Human cases of campylobacteriosis decreased slightly in 2012 for the first time in five years, but campylobacteriosis remains the most commonly reported zoonotic disease and it is premature to suggest that this is the beginning of a downward trend...
31 January 2014 | By Food Standards Agency
NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde has issued a statement about an outbreak of E.coli O157 in Scotland...
19 July 2013 | By FSA
The FSA has been informed that a frozen meat pie product that was found to contain horse DNA has been withdrawn from sale...
5 July 2013 | By FSA
Professor Pat Troop has completed her independent review of the FSA’s response to the adulteration of processed beef products...
13 June 2013 | By Food Standards Agency
The Food Standards Agency is confirming it has received a further 19,050 industry results from testing beef products for horse DNA...
4 June 2013 | By FSA
At Food Standards Agency open Board meeting, Professor Pat Troop presented the key findings...
29 May 2013 | By EFSA
EFSA is working closely with ECDC to help identify the origin of the recent outbreak of Hepatitis A virus infection...
9 May 2013 | By Institute of Food Science and Technology (IFST)
IFST’s Consultancy group responds with its position on how to approach this issue of food fraud and authenticity...
Recent news headlines regarding the evidence of horsemeat in beef products has drawn worldwide attention to the growing problem of food fraud.
26 April 2013 | By Helen Bahia
Food fraud on an international scale is a reality – current preventive measures are not working and new techniques and tools are needed to address the problem, say experts. The recent revelation of large-scale and criminal food fraud involving the adulteration of processed meat products with horsemeat has cost the…
16 April 2013 | By FDA
In February the EC asked all member states to carry out a survey of beef products to check for the presence of horse DNA...
16 April 2013 | By EFSA
FSA is working closely with ECDC to help identify the origin of the recent outbreak of Hepatitis A virus infection...
9 April 2013 | By FSA
The FSA has been informed by Asda that very low levels of bute, have been found in 340g tins of its Smart Price Corned Beef...
9 April 2013 | By FSA
The FSA has confirmed results for four of the remaining five samples relating to the Agency’s UK-wide sampling programme of beef products...
