Belgian authorities recorded 240 complaints in 2022 about the sale of food products online, according to a new report.
The Federal Agency for the Safety of the Food Chain (FASFC) has inspectors specializing in e-commerce that control online shops and deal with consumer complaints.
In the past two years, they
Continue Reading Belgium sees spike in complaints relating to food sold online
Factors such as the seller and the product type influence consumer trust in the hygiene and safety of food sold online, according to research.
The Food Standards Agency (FSA) commissioned research to understand consumer attitudes toward buying food online, including the perceived risks.
Findings come from 12 online discussion groups
Continue Reading FSA looks at consumer attitudes to buying food online
Efforts to quantify the level of risk posed by food sold online are at an early stage, according to the Food Standards Agency (FSA) in the United Kingdom.
In a paper presented at the latest board meeting, the authority acknowledged limitations of the existing regulatory system are being exposed as
Continue Reading FSA looking into risks from online food sales
More than a third of people in the United Kingdom were unaware that takeaways and food businesses were required by law to undergo safety and hygiene checks, according to a survey.
People in the UK buying homemade food online and from social media chefs during lockdown has become increasingly popular
Continue Reading Survey explores trend of buying food from online, home sellers
Four people have been convicted in England for making a false holiday food poisoning claim.
Two men and two women from Middlesbrough were sentenced to four months in prison, after issuing fraudulent compensation claims for gastric illness against Jet2holidays.
Christopher Byng, 38, Barbara Byng, 64, Linda Lane, 36, and Anthony
Continue Reading Four convicted for fake food poisoning claim
Every hour of every day people around the world are living with and working to resolve food safety issues. Here is a sampling of current headlines for your consumption, brought to you today with the support of Alchemy Systems.
Raw pet foods dangers for animals, owners
Pet owners who
Continue Reading Briefly: Raw truth for pets — Fair food — Yelp all about it
The U.K.’s Food Standards Agency (FSA) has reportedly been systematically checking for Twitter hashtags such as #sick and #barf in order to identify potential foodborne illness outbreaks. According to the agency’s chief scientific adviser, FSA is working with the National Health Service to monitor certain tweets via special software as
Continue Reading UK’s Food Standards Agency Monitoring Tweets to Detect Outbreaks Sooner
Social media platforms such as Yelp and Twitter have significantly altered the online landscape for restaurants. Now anyone with an Internet connection and an opinion can broadcast their thoughts to others interested in visiting. But what if public health officials could use Yelp and Twitter to track people mentioning foodborne
Continue Reading Could Yelp and Twitter Become Tools to Detect Foodborne Outbreaks?
“With the ubiquitous nature of social media in current society, health and food safety risk communicators should be taking advantage of these platforms to provide information and engage the public,” reads a recent article in the journal Perspectives in Public Health. To help health information providers navigate social media, researchers
Continue Reading How Health and Food Safety Risk Communicators Can Engage Social Media
This article originally appeared in the October/November 2013 edition of Food Safety Magazine. The author has provided a number of references listed at the end of the article. “GMO health risks,”[1] “The sweet lowdown: Exposing the unhealthy truth about sugar,”[2] “Is high-fructose corn syrup bad for you?”[3] and “Chemical
Continue Reading It's Not All About the Science
