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Irish website selling DNP shut down; recall issued

By News Desk on February 10, 2021

An Irish website selling a weight loss aid that may have been sold in the United States has been closed.

The website was marketing capsules containing 200 milligrams of 2,4-Dinitrophenol (DNP) using an address that…
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Contaminated sesame seed recalls continue in Europe

By Joe Whitworth on February 5, 2021

A European alert food system is nearing 500 reports because of the unauthorized substance ethylene oxide in products with sesame seeds.

Belgium made the first alert in early September 2020 in the Rapid Alert System…
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Plans put forward on UK food safety framework post-Brexit

By News Desk on January 28, 2021

Three suggestions have been made to improve a food safety framework that sets out how things will work in the United Kingdom now that it has left the European Union.

The Common Framework Scrutiny Committee…
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EU’s crisis plan gets feedback from food sector

By Joe Whitworth on January 18, 2021

The European Commission is developing steps to be followed in times of a crisis based on lessons learned from the COVID-19 pandemic.

The contingency plan is a set of procedures to be put in place…
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Food recalls continue to rise in Switzerland

By News Desk on January 3, 2021

Swiss authorities have published information about 80 food recalls from 2017 to 2019.

The number of public warnings for food increased sharply between 2018 and 2019 and the amount of food recalls also went up…
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HACCP tops demand in EU training program

By Joe Whitworth on November 21, 2020

HACCP was the most popular training program in 2019 as part of an initiative for officials involved in verifying compliance with European rules.

A total of 13 five day training sessions were organized with 313…
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Clarity urged for post Brexit food safety policies

By Joe Whitworth on November 14, 2020

Members of a parliamentary committee have called for greater clarity about food safety after the United Kingdom leaves the European Union.

The House of Lords Common Frameworks Scrutiny Committee is looking at how the Food…
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FSA questioned about post Brexit food safety rules

By Joe Whitworth on October 19, 2020

Members of a parliamentary committee have written to the Food Standards Agency (FSA) about the future of food safety rules in the United Kingdom after leaving the European Union.

The Common Frameworks Scrutiny Committee asked…
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RASFF notifications broke 4,000 barrier in 2019

By Joe Whitworth on October 10, 2020

More than 4,000 reports on food or feed risks were filed by member states to the European Commission this past year.

In 2019, 4,118 original notifications were transmitted through the Rapid Alert System for Food…
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FSAI reviews 2019 work on food safety and fraud

By News Desk on October 7, 2020

The Food Safety Authority of Ireland (FSAI) has reviewed the main activities of this past year which marked the agency’s 20th anniversary.

The annual report covers enforcement, inspections, sampling, recalls, Brexit, and food fraud. FSAI…
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Lithuanian officials seize poultry meat due to Salmonella

By News Desk on September 9, 2020

Lithuanian authorities have seized more than 40 tons of imported poultry meat due to potential Salmonella contamination in the space of three months.

From June to August of this year, the State Food and Veterinary…
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