Page 13 of articles about food-safety

The Public-Private Food Exporters' Board's aim is to promote and expand the presence of Chile in the world as an exporter of safe foods.

The Ministry of Agriculture has trained a critical mass of technicians that from now on will be able to perform food risk analyses on plant and animal foods.

The Belarusian Agriculture and Food Ministry noted that domestic companies should use the methods developed by the National Research Institute for Veterinary Virology and Microbiology of Russia.

The OJEU has published Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) No 1114/2014 amending Regulation (EC) No 2075/2005 laying down specific rules on official controls for Trichinella in meat.

The Economic Research Service (ERS) of the USDA has announced new data about the estimated costs of the main foodborne illnesses cases recorded in US in 2013.

The overarching goal of the common audit process is to provide consumers greater assurance of the care taken by farmers and pork processors to improve animal well-being and food safety.

The regulation will be binding when the Economic Integration Council of Ministers sanctions it.

FDA releases updated proposals to improve food safety and help prevent foodborne illness in response to public comments.

The EFFORT consortium is made up of 20 partners from 10 different European countries: Belgium, Bulgaria, Denmark, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Poland, Spain and Switzerland.

The maintenance of the cold chain is one of the main principles and basic requirements of the EU legislation on food hygiene.

The study examined 96 food samples (beef, pork, lamb, apple juice, tomatoes and honey) claimed to be from the UK, or from the Republic of Ireland.

A "Top Ten" list identifying the food-borne parasites of greatest global concern has been released by FAO, and new guidelines are being developed to control them.

A revision to China's Food Safety Law had its first reading on Monday and pledges tough sanctions for offenders, promising the strictest food safety supervision system.

Pork and pork products must be derived from lots of hogs that have negative test results for ractopamine.

Of the 3 205 original notifications transmitted in RASFF in 2013, the vast majority (2 710, 84.6%) concerned food, 272 concerned feed (8.5%) and 223 notifications concerned food contact materials (6.9%).

The abattoir has a slaughtering capacity of 3,800 cattle heads and 5,600 pigs per month.