Editor’s note: Joe Whitworth attended the forum earlier this week for Food Safety News and will be posting his coverage in the coming days.
As nations sell more and more food across international borders, food safety continues to be a cutting-edge issue. People are eager to try new foods and
Continue Reading WTO director general outlines importance of food safety in trade
The U.S. Department of Agriculture has found Thailand’s food safety inspection system for fish of the order Siluriformes (catfish) to be equivalent to that of the United States. Thailand joins China and Vietnam in achieving equivalency status for catfish. Another dozen or more countries also export catfish to the U.S.
Continue Reading Thailand’s catfish inspections found to be equivalent to U.S.
Imported molluscan shellfish from Europe are as safe as if they were harvested off Puget Sound or Massachusetts Bay, according to a Food and Drug Administration finding. FDA’s equivalence determination means two-way raw shellfish trade across the Atlantic is likely to be back on after a lapse of almost eight
Continue Reading FDA finding could reinstate cross-Atlantic shellfish trade
