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Codex discusses remote audits and food fraud

By News Desk on June 7, 2023

Progress has been made on guidelines for remote audits but not on a food fraud text, according to reports from a recent Codex meeting.

The Codex Committee on Food Import and Export Inspection and Certification…

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FoodDrinkEurope reveals food safety culture guidance

By Joe Whitworth on June 6, 2023

Ways to help measure and develop a food safety culture and apply it in practice have been published by an industry group.

The document was created by the food safety culture group of FoodDrinkEurope. It…

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U.S. heads up Codex ciguatera efforts

By Joe Whitworth on May 16, 2023

The United States is to lead work on a document covering the prevention or reduction of ciguatera poisoning.

The plan was given the go-ahead at a recent Codex Committee on Contaminants in Foods meeting.

An…

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Codex adopts outbreak guidelines; other standards debated

By Joe Whitworth on February 17, 2023

A long-awaited report on decisions taken at the latest Codex Alimentarius Commission meeting has finally been published.

The United Nations food standards body met in Rome in November 2022. Codex is an initiative of the…

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Singapore unveils guidance relating to food sold online

By News Desk on January 24, 2023

A set of voluntary guidelines has been launched in Singapore dealing with food sold on the internet.

Singapore Standard 687: 2022 (Guidelines for food e-commerce) provides guidance to e-commerce players on their roles…

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New guidelines designed to knock down Campylobacter and Salmonella levels

By Dan Flynn on August 3, 2021

The USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) has released new guidance documents for controlling beef and raw poultry pathogens.

The FSIS Inspection Program Personnel (IPP) announced the availability of the new guidance at weekly…
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Industry can find FSA ‘frustrating and inconsistent’

By Joe Whitworth on September 13, 2020

Negative terms most commonly used to describe the Food Standards Agency (FSA) were “frustrating, challenging and inconsistent”, according to a survey.

The research was done because the FSA wanted to know how businesses in the…
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Study offers insight into revised E. coli guidelines in Norway

By News Desk on October 10, 2019

A revision of Shiga-toxin producing E. coli guidelines in Norway was helped by a survey and new scientific evidence.

In autumn 2016, Shiga-toxin producing E. coli (STEC) guidelines were modified accounting for evidence on the…
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Fines increase for food safety and hygiene offenses

By Joe Whitworth on April 10, 2019

Fines have increased for organizations sentenced for food safety and hygiene offenses following the introduction of new guidelines in England and Wales.

An impact assessment of guidelines by the Sentencing Council also showed there was …
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Animal activists flood the comment zone before deadline

By Dan Flynn on December 6, 2016

Individuals and animal activists’ organizations were swarming the government comment site, regulations.gov yesterday over proposed new guidelines about labeling claims made about how animals are raised.

Monday was the deadline for comments on the new…
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