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NSW agency releases annual food testing figures

By News Desk on September 4, 2020

More than 4,000 samples were taken during efforts to investigate outbreaks, according to an Australian state’s annual food testing report for 2018 and 2019.

The New South Wales (NSW) Food Authority reported 4,010 food and…
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U.S. FDA ‘aware’ of China testing food for coronavirus

By Joe Whitworth on June 18, 2020

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has said it is aware of reports that China will begin testing foods for Coronavirus.

Frank Yiannas, Deputy Commissioner of Food Policy and Response at the FDA, wrote on…
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Scientists seek to build global confidence in analytical solutions for food safety

By Guest Contributor on September 26, 2018
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Editor’s note: This is the first in a series of articles and opinion columns we are publishing in recognition of Food Safety Education Month.

Since its founding as the Association of Official Agricultural Chemists…
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The intersection of science and safety: NY testing pays off

By News Desk on February 28, 2017

The work of 43 people in New York led to more than 300 recalls and the removal of contaminated food from countless store shelves across the country in 2016, preventing illnesses and protecting the public.
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Could Glowing Fish Help Improve Food Safety?

By News Desk on March 20, 2015

VitargentA startup in Hong Kong is hoping to use light-up fish embryos to improve food safety. The company, Vitargent, engineered medaka and zebrafish embryos to turn fluorescent green or develop tumors in the presence…
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Food Testing Course Helps Countries Build Trade Capacity

By Gretchen Goetz on October 1, 2012

After one year in operation, the International Food Safety Training Lab is doing exactly what it was founded to do: train foreign scientists in leading food testing methods. But, like all fledgling programs, IFSTL has…
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Pew Gives Consumer Reports $2 million for Food Safety Testing

By News Desk on August 14, 2012

Consumer Reports, the popular monthly product testing magazine, was awarded a $2 million grant by the Pew Charitable Trusts to study food safety, the New York Times reported Monday. According to the Times, the…
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FDA Revokes Taylor Farms Salad Recall

By News Desk on June 4, 2012

Taylor Farms of Salinas, California received welcome news Friday when the U.S. Food and Drug Administration informed the company that the bagged salad it had been asked to recall for potential E. coli contamination was…
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Tainted Spinach Detected by Program Budget Cuts Will Ax

By Gretchen Goetz on May 24, 2012

The discovery of Salmonella in bagged organic baby spinach that led to a nationwide recall Tuesday has been attributed to a small government testing program that, ironically, is set to be eliminated in the 2013…

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New Lab Trains Foreign Food Testers

By Gretchen Goetz on September 19, 2011

The University of Maryland is offering a new strategy for improving the safety of imported foods: train the foreign experts who test these goods in the U.S.’s standards and protocol.
This week the school launched…

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