Europe • Allergy Alert (UK): TWI Foods recalls TWI brand Pistachio Cookies (200g and 400g), Almond Cookies (200g and 400g), Coconut Cookies (200g and 400g), and Almond Cake Rusk (750g), due to the presence of undeclared milk. • Food Safety Recall (Denmark): DK Trading ApS recalls Fresh Chicken Breast Fillets…
The UK has been required to change the process by which a very small part of its meat processing industry removes meat from animal bones. The European Commission has asked that a moratorium is put in place on the production of ‘desinewed meat’ (DSM) from cows and sheep. Desinewed meat…
The Northern Ireland Strategic Committee on Food Surveillance has published its fourth report on food sampling activity in Northern Ireland. Similar to 2009, the results of sampling in 2010 indicate that there have been relatively few detections of foodborne pathogens. However, almost a third of samples taken were reported to…
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has made available on the internet the second edition of the Bad Bug Book, a handbook of basic information about foodborne bacteria, viruses, parasites, prions, and naturally occurring toxins. In addition to updated scientific information, the book includes five new chapters (on Cronobacter, Enterococcus,…
Researchers from Rothamsted Research, UK have been given permission by the Department for Environmental, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA) to grow a GM variety of wheat they have developed that contains an aphid alarm pheromone. (E)-β-farnesene is produced by dying aphids to warn other aphids away. It is also produced…
• Food Safety Recall (Greece): Chris Spiliopoulos & Co recalls several food products manufactured by the Polish comapany Iglotex SA, because the products contain illegally manufactured egg powder. Please refer to the recall notice for details. • Veterinary Medicines Safety Recall (Spain): Laboratorio Ovejero, S.A. recalls all outstanding products, due…
From April 2012, FSA staff will be taking over the role of dairy hygiene inspectors on farms in England and Wales, continuing the work of the Animal Health and Veterinary Laboratories Agency (AHVLA), which had previously undertaken this task on the FSA’s behalf. Dairy hygiene inspections are carried out on…
Multi-vitamin fruit juices are the 3rd favourite type of juice in Germany with a market share of 9%. Some people drink it for the health benefits, some for the taste of exotic fruit but a damning report from Stiftung Warentest says neither group are getting what they think they are…
Zapping tomatoes with pulsed electric fields increases concentrations of bioactive compounds (total polyphenols, lycopene, and vitamin C content). That is the message in the paper published in the Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry by researchers from the University of Barcelona, Instituto de Salud Carlos III and the University of…
Coca-cola and Pepsi have modified their recipes to avoid having to display a warning that a chemical in the drink could cause cancer. 4-MI, the chemical in question, present in caramel colourings E150c and E150d, has been shown to cause cancer in rats, albeit with very high doses (equivalent to…
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