The Food Standards Agency’s shellfish monitoring programme has successfully completed a move away from tests using mice for the detection of paralytic shellfish poisoning (PSP) and lipophilic toxins in commercially harvested shellfish.
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The Food Standards Agency has published 10 short videos to help caterers produce food safely. Each video is about a minute long and covers specific food hygiene practices. These training resources are designed to illustrate messages within the ‘Safer food, better business’ packs and they follow the same innovative and…
This year strawberry growers in the UK are expecting yields of 56,000 tonnes, up 10% from last year. This is due to the mild and warm spring weather, also apparently resulting in sweeter and juicer fruit.
• Food Safety Recall (France): Société Favois recalls Carrefour Agir Solidaire Préparation de Fraises Goyaves Equitable Bio (265g glass jar; UPC 3 560 070 498 178; Best before 06/06/2013), because the product may contain glass fragments. • Food Safety Notification (EU #2012.0504): Unsuitable organoleptic characteristics and dead insects in roasted…
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 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,…
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…
Last year, 134 people were arrested in east China’s Shandong province for producing or selling waste food oil as cooking oil. Known as Gutter oil, the name is well deserved as some of the oil is acquired by dredging the drains behind restaurants. China’s food safety authority started a crack…