Finnish authorities are investigating a company for allegedly buying foreign game meat and selling it as a domestic product.
Joupin Meklari Oy is suspected by officials of buying, selling and storing items such as venison products, in a way that is noncompliant with regulations. Police have also opened a preliminary
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Spanish authorities have busted a suspected organized crime group selling horse meat that could have been unfit for human consumption.
The Spanish Civil Guard (Guardia Civil) was supported by Europol. The alleged criminal organization, based in the province of Barcelona, reportedly falsified equine documents and sold horse meat without the
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Authorities in Spain and Portugal have uncovered what they are calling a criminal network involving contaminated clams that sickened up to 30 people.
The investigation involved the Portuguese Economic and Food Safety Authority (ASAE), Food Fraud Network of the European Commission and was led by the Spanish SEPRONA (Guardia Civil’s
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Lloyd’s Register Foundation has identified three areas of focus for its future efforts and investment.
A foresight review revealed a roadmap for food safety which focuses on funding and research for education and training, traceability and the ocean of food.
It follows months of research in which more than 100
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Spanish and Italian authorities have reported a number of different investigations uncovering unsafe food in the past week.
The Guardia Civil in Spain seized almost one ton of food not suitable for human consumption. Local units of Carabinieri Nucleo Antisofisticazioni e Sanità (NAS) in Italy detailed four investigations on foodstuffs
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The Food Safety Authority of Ireland (FSAI) has asked for input on a potential event covering what the food safety system needs to look like by 2030. The agency wants to bring together academicians, regulators and other stakeholders to help identify and define what food safety research and other investments
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Spanish authorities have halted the sale of certain seafood products in Galicia that may pose a risk to human health.
The Guardia Civil seized more than 150 tons of Norway lobster in the second phase of an operation called Pinza Roja. Norway lobster is also known as scampi, Dublin Bay
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A review of meat processing plants in the United Kingdom following a number of high-profile issues has spurred a series of recommendations to improve the industry.
Suggestions in the draft review will be considered at a meeting by the Boards of the Food Standards Agency (FSA) and Food Standards Scotland
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Few threats addressed by the United Nations are as undiscriminating as foodborne pathogens, which don’t honor international borders or differentiate between first- and third-world status. Similarly few threats addressed by the international body are as easy to mitigate as food safety, at least in theory. 
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(U.S. Sen. Jon Tester, a Montana Democrat, was co-author of the Tester-Hagan Amendment to the Food Safety Modernization Act, which exempted certain small, local producers from regulation. He sits on the Senate Appropriations Committee and also on its Subcommittee on Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies.)
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