HACCP could help tackle global livestock disease
A system used by the food industry to control foodborne disease could help stop the global spread of infectious diseases, according to UK researchers.
Archives for August 14, 2013
Better shrimp syndrome knowledge means tier-II producers can flourish
An outbreak of early mortality syndrome (EMS) might have stalled a decade-long boom in the shrimp industry, but a new better understanding of the pathogen might mean significant growth once again.
Does your food safety program measure up?
An upcoming webinar is geared toward helping food firms pass muster in SQF audits.
GLG Lifetech works with China’s largest food company to tackle obesity, diabetes epidemic with stevia
Stevia supplier GLG Lifetech is working with China’s largest food company - state-owned COFCO (China National Cereals, Oils, and Foodstuffs Corporation) - on three major healthy food and beverage formulation projects.
New FDA guidance sheds more light on formulation, marketing of medical foods
The Food and Drug Administration has given additional clarification to a ill-defined subcategory of foods by issuing a revised draft guidance on medical foods. The new version clarifies some issues surrounding branding and marketing, and in so doing,...
Where are the dead bodies? Toxicology experts hit back at latest attack on food additive safety system
The second paper from researchers at Pew Health published this month to argue that the system governing the safety of food additives is deeply flawed, fails to provide any evidence that it has allowed harmful substances to ‘slip through the net’, say...
UK and France ordered to repay misspent livestock subsidies
The European Commission has ordered France and Britain to repay €2.1m in European Union (EU) livestock subsidies, which its officials have decided were misspent.
Vivione partnership aims to boost speed to market
Vivione Biosciences has partnered with a US laboratory to accelerate commercialization of its foodborne pathogen detection kits.