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Are you involved in Fresh Produce in the UK or US?
Purity-IQ is seeking TWO addition senior people currently involved in the production and quality control of cannabis/hemp based products who are also willing to volunteer their time to participate with peers in a Technical Working Group to provide re
Read more…The UK Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) have commissioned Fera Science Ltd. to review current methods that are applicable for use in the detection and speciation of offal in meat products.
As part of the project we seek to
Members may be interested in this article, published in Infofish International, which has a section on unnecessary water addition to seafood ACHIEVING SUSTAINABILITY IN FOOD SAFETY: AN ETHICAL CODE AS CORPORATE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY?
Read more…Offal is a permitted ingredient provided it is accurately labelled on the food packaging.
Two snapshot surveys (2014 and 2019) have both revealed that undeclared offal is present in some retail meat products and it is suggested that further surveillan
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A UK government funded project (FA0179, Defra), is conducting a survey ‘Food authenticity methods’ to determine what types of methods are used within the food industry for authentication of produce. Simultaneously to this aspect of the wo
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Hi All,
I would like to draw the attention of other members of the Food Authenticity network to what we are working on in our SG Isotech company. SGI has developed, patented and validated a new fast and accurate isotopic method for determining the bo
Read more…Worldwide, no week passes without a product recall in the food industry, due to pathogen contamination. It causes illness and in some worst cases even death.
At SwissDeCode, we don't surrender to events. We have been hit by contaminations and life tau
Read more…European standardization in the field of food and feed contributes to improving levels of food safety and protecting the health of consumers. CEN (European Committee for Standardization) provides validated test methods that are used by the food indus
A colleague of mine in Turkey reported interest from the Turkish authorities to "deal with" the addition of modified starch to meat to increase apparent weight.? It was not specified whether this is processed products such a sausage (I thought that t
Read more…Large-scale international food safety scandals are known to be episodic. This year alone, these have included the export of expired or spoiled meat from 21 producers in Brazil to 61 countries, the pesticide fipronil in eggs affecting 65 countries to
Read more…There is an updated code of practice on? basmati rice varieties which lists 28 additional varieties that can be labelled as basmati rice ?http://www.riceassociation.org.uk/content/1/47/2017-basmati-code-of-practice.html . I am wondering if there are
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