A project on food safety and authenticity in Europe and China has ended after more than four years of work.
EU-China-Safe included 16 partners from 11 EU countries and 17 participants from China such as
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The head of the Food Standards Agency has said she is increasingly worried about the impact of local authority funding shortages on food safety.
Emily Miles said the coronavirus pandemic has served as a reminder
Continue Reading FSA chief sounds alarm on local authority funding
Scientists have shone a light on the cause of multiple serious and fatal food poisoning incidents in Uganda in 2019. They found all three outbreaks were caused by a single batch of a type of
Continue Reading Researchers show Ugandan outbreaks caused by single batch of food aid
Barriers to tackling food fraud include the cost and capability of authenticity testing, a changing mode of operation, and a complex regulatory system, according to experts.
Contributors to an overview about food fraud said evidence
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Reports about “plastic rice” are likely incorrect according to a food fraud expert who says it could have been actual rice that had been poorly stored for up to a decade.
Chris Elliott, professor of
Continue Reading So-called plastic rice could have been the real deal, but stored for a decade
Some critics say that the health of British families is being put at risk because an ongoing retail “price war” on chicken is keeping investments from being made to help reduce Campylobacter contamination. Professor Chris
Continue Reading Could the UK Chicken Price War be Adding to the Campylobacter Problem?
An independent report suggesting that the United Kingdom needs a special food police unit uses the Danes and the Dutch as examples and not the United States, where more than a dozen food industry executives
Continue Reading New Food Police Unit Coming Soon to the UK
