09-May-2012 - Food manufacturers and retailers will find it increasingly difficult to source GM-free ingredients at reasonable prices if Europe continues to reject the controversial technology.
09-May-2012 - Dr Andrew Wadge, the Food Standards Agency’s chief scientist, explains why new technologies, such as lactic acid antibacterial washes during chicken processing operations, should be used to reduce the 403,000 cases of campylobacter food poisoning in the UK each year – many resulting from contaminated chickens bought by people from supermarkets.
01-May-2012 - Seward's Stomacher 400 Circulator is used in the food industry to prepare samples for listeria testing.The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) also used it for testing in last year's listeriosis scare in the US, which involved cantaloupe melons. The outbreak caused 25 lives to be lost and severe illness for several hundred people. Tests using the Circulator eliminated soil and fruit as possible sources of contamination.
01-May-2012 - Hygiene Audit Systems has launched an online food safety monitoring system that enables users to store and view records across the globe, 24 hours a day.
25-Apr-2012 - The drive to encourage people to adopt sustainable diets could exacerbate problems of nutrient deficiency in vulnerable sections of the UK population, the director general of the British Nutrition Foundation has warned.
24-Apr-2012 - Allergen thresholds that food manufacturers can use to ensure safe production within factories and for improved product labelling could become a reality within two years, a Uniliever expert has claimed.
24-Apr-2012 - The Food Standards Agency (FSA) aims to cut campylobacteriosis by commissioning research to trace the sources of Campylobacter infection – often linked to poultry.
24-Apr-2012 - Food safety watchdog, the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) has urged EU Member States to step up monitoring of turkeys for salmonella infection.
24-Apr-2012 - Levels of the chemical acrylamide are rising in some food products while falling in others, according to the latest survey by the Food Standards Agency (FSA).
24-Apr-2012 - Independent food laboratories are gearing up to meet increasing demand for their services from manufacturers and retailers as incidents related to allergens in foods increase.
24-Apr-2012 - Two new X-ray food safety detection systems make the identification of contaminants quicker and more cost-efficient, claim the manufacturers Thermo Fisher Scientific and German manufacturer Heuft.
23-Apr-2012 - The government is deepening the obesity crisis by allowing flagship academies to lower national nutritional standards, warns Jamie Oliver.
16-Apr-2012 - Food manufacturers have rejected claims from the Academy of Medical Royal Colleges (AoMRC) that advertising food at the Olympics will worsen the UK’s obesity crisis.
13-Apr-2012 - A report from consumer watchdog Which? revealing that one-in-five supermarket chickens was contaminated with campylobacter has been welcomed by the UK poultry industry.
12-Apr-2012 - An anti-meat poster from campaign group People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) linking meat to death from obesity has been slammed by the meat industry and labelled “shoddy scaremongering”.
12-Apr-2012 - No negative effects on human and animal health or the environment can be traced to a trial of genetically modified (GM) maize strain which produces insect toxin, according to research from the European Food Safety authority (EFSA).
11-Apr-2012 - Food manufacturers are being warned of a possible food fraud surrounding the production of imported basmati rice which could be intentionally contaminated with Genetically Modified Organisms (GMOs).
11-Apr-2012 - Chilled foods manufacturer Bakkavör has been rewarded for its commitment to health and safety at two of its UK sites by the Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents (RoSPA).
23-Mar-2012 - Foodborne diseases, such as norovirus, are as big a threat to the Olympics as terrorist groups such as Al-Qaeda, according to a Home Office risk assessment.
23-Mar-2012 - The latest health warnings about red meat focus on the dangers of eating too little not too much.
16-Mar-2012 - Leading scientists and food and drink manufacturers have rejected calls for legislation to tackle Britain’s obesity crisis from consumer campaign group Which?
15-Mar-2012 - UK food and drink manufacturers have rejected claims by campaign group Which? that the government’s Public Health Responsibility Deal has made inadequate progress at reducing what it describes as “the national obesity emergency”.
14-Mar-2012 - Meat industry experts and health campaigners have both questioned the results of a Harvard Medical School study which claimed to show that eating a diet high in red meat shortened life expectancy.
13-Mar-2012 - Diets high in red meat reduce life expectancy through an increased risk of cancer and cardio vascular disease, according to the results of a new study from Harvard Medical School.
05-Mar-2012 - Chickens resistant to Campylobacter – a bacteria that is the biggest cause of food poisoning in the UK – could result from a new £1.3M research project.