Export health certification cost over £26m from January to June this year, claims the food industry's sanitary & phytosanitary (SPS) certification working group, which wants food business operators to support e-certification trials.
Suppliers of cannabidiol (CBD) food products have been challenged as the European Food Standards Authority (EFSA) has refused to grant them CBD Novel Foods approval without further information.
The Food Standards Agency (FSA) and the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) have invested £1.6m into a new UK food safety network to help better tackle food poisoning challenges.
Ensuring food quality and safety control across all products is tough when the supply chain is subject to constant change and frequent ingredient substitution, but there are tips and tricks to help.
Experts from Tesco and global herbs and spices supplier McCormick & Company will form part of a panel tackling traceability and compliance in a volatile market in our free webinar on 25 May.
The EU recently added many more products to its acrylamide monitoring system, broadening the list of baked goods and including pita and specialty breads, pancakes, tortillas, churros, doughnuts and croissants.
The European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) is to investigate a potential link between contaminated raw material and the multi-country outbreak of salmonella connected to Ferrero’s Belgian chocolate factory.
An ongoing outbreak of listeria in the UK has been linked to smoked fish, according to an investigation led by the UK Health Security Agency, Food Standards Agency and Food Standards Scotland.
The impact of the conflict in Ukraine has been well covered in the media, but what is the likely impact of this global supply disruption on food fraud and food authenticity?
The Food Standards Agency (FSA) and Food Standards Scotland (FSS) are today advising consumers that some food products labelled as containing sunflower oil may instead contain refined rapeseed oil.
Intakes of added and free sugar should be as low as possible – in line with current recommendations – for a nutritionally adequate diet, according to a new report from the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA).
Britvic is cutting the sugar content across the six bestselling Rockstar Energy drinks, six months before restrictions on retail promotions of high fat, salt and sugar (HFSS) products start in October.
An outbreak of Salmonella Enteritidis ST11 infections across Europe linked to eggs has led to 272 cases of food poisoning, including 12 in the UK and the source is still unknown.
Public trust in food safety, the food supply chain and authenticity remained high in spite of the COVID-19 pandemic, according to the Food Standards Agency (FSA).
International food safety body Codex Alimentarius has approved a framework outlining four safe ways of producing steviol glycosides, enabling greater access to stevia products across the globe.
Up to a third of UK consumers are willing to try lab-grown meat and a quarter would try insects, according to new research by the Food Standards Agency (FSA).
In the world of detection and inspection, the latest advances in food safety technology have been propelled by a need to not only save space and money, but also larger goals of becoming more sustainable and offering more comprehensive coverage for discovering...
Tom Russell, managing director of The Food Incubator, discussed his journey through the industry, the importance of understanding thermal processes and his advice of entrepreneurs in this exclusive podcast.
The Food Standards Agency’s (FSA’s) National Food Crime Unit (NFCU) has urged food businesses to seek advice to combat fraud over the Christmas period, as it celebrated its first successful sentencing for a food fraudster.
The Food Standards Agency's (FSA's) National Food Crime Unit (NFCU) is making progress on food fraud investigations, with sentencing following its first successful conviction due to take place this month.
The immediate future is dominated by recovery from COVID-19, but food inspections cannot be delayed 'indefinitely', Food Standards Agency (FSA) chief executive Emily Miles has said.
A leading committee of MPs has expressed 'deep concern' about further Government delays on implementing checks on food imports from the EU, claiming it could undermine the competitiveness of British businesses.
Food industry leaders have united to tackle sustainability, health and food safety over the past year, despite significant challenges, but to make more progress they should be their 'own biggest critics'.
McCormick & Company, the US-based ingredients supplier, has called on manufacturers in the herb and spice industry to check their businesses for fraudulent practices following the publication of an EU report.
The Food Standards Agency (FSA) and UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) have awarded £200,000 to fund six projects uniting the public and researchers to investigate food standards and safety challenges.
The ‘first-ever’ set of Benchmarking Requirements for food safety auditor Professional Recognition Bodies has been launched by the Global Food Safety Initiative (GFSI) in a bid to raise the profile of the profession and attract and retain talent.
New European Commission (EC) proposals to change Listeria monocytogenes legislation threaten food safety and risk creating waste, according to the Chilled Food Association (CFA).
The UK is a nation of pet owners. According to the latest statistics from the Pet Food Manufacturers Association (PFMA) 59% of UK households now have a pet.
Allergen management, effective management of food industry audits, horizon scanning tools and robust hazard analysis critical control points (HACCP) systems will all be addressed in a free Food Manufacture webinar held on 6 October.
The shortage of food-grade CO2 has not been fully solved, despite the Government claiming a coup in terms of brokering a deal to restart its production. We explore the problems that remain and the future implications for the food industry.
Food Manufacture is running its usual free annual Food Safety Briefing on 6 October online from 3pm to 4.30pm, featuring experts tackling topics ranging from allergens to ensuring robust HACCP plans and audits.
The Food Standards Agency (FSA) has just published a 215-page paper comparing how UK regulation of novel foods and genetically modified organisms (GMOs) differs from that of non-EU countries.
Driving CBD food producers down the Novel Foods route is unnecessary and expensive, argues Mark Reinders, HempFlax boss and former president of the European Industrial Hemp Association (EIHA) in this opinion piece.
Campden BRI has developed a new visual tool to help food and drink manufacturers communicate and manage risk within their businesses and boost food safety culture.
Consumer confidence in the safety of their food remains strong according to a survey from the Food Standards Agency (FSA), as it launches a revised Food Law Code of Practice.
Food safety across the food chain just got a boost as the Government announced £19.2m funding for a three-year surveillance project tracking UK foodborne pathogens and antimicrobial resistant (AMR) microbes.
Food allergy-stricken Brits need more transparent information about allergens in foods, with one in six unable to identify any in common food groups and 62% too embarrassed to ask about ingredients when eating out.