Published: Mar 03, 2017

The Qianlong-Fawan United Daily News reported that on January 2017 the border Inspection and Quarantine Office in Beijing detected, when inspecting carriages arriving from 20 different countries and regions.

Published: Mar 03, 2017

A study conducted at Harvard and MIT and published in the journal eLife has discovered one way that bacteria become resistant to drugs.

Published: Mar 02, 2017

The World Health Organization (WHO) has published its first ever list of antibiotic-resistant bacteria that pose the greatest threat to human health and which urgently need new types of antibiotics.

Published: Mar 01, 2017

Whole Foods Market stores in Arlington, Massachusetts and Brookline, Massachusetts, are issuing an allergy alert to recall Cream Cheese King Cakes because they may contain pecans that are not declared on the label.

Published: Feb 28, 2017

We all know that raw chicken can contain pathogenic bacteria such as Campylobacter and Salmonella.

Published: Feb 28, 2017

Faced with record numbers of international visitors, the Ministry for Primary Industries (MPI) biosecurity staff have been busy protecting the country's economy and environment.

Published: Feb 27, 2017

Cornell food scientists have developed a new high pressure food processor to destroy food pathogens.

Published: Feb 23, 2017

After the discovery of a destructive pest known as the tomato potato miner at a Perth farm, Eastern States banned the import of produce from Western Australia in order to quarantine the problem.

Published: Feb 22, 2017

A new portable diagnostic tool for identifying the devastating zebra chip disease may bring faster and more accurate results to stem its spread, according to New Zealand scientists.

Published: Feb 22, 2017

A new portable diagnostic tool for identifying the devastating zebra chip disease may bring faster and more accurate results to stem its spread, according to New Zealand scientists.

Published: Feb 22, 2017

The Himachal Pradesh government on Sunday said that transparent international guidelines have been followed to rejuvenate its Rs 3,500-crore fruit industry and the imported apple cultivars were tested and found to be pest and disease-free.

Published: Feb 21, 2017

In the past few days, the Xiaoshan Inspection and Quarantine Bureau has reported that 9716 batches of vegetables were exported from the administrative region between 2011 and 2016.

Published: Feb 20, 2017

In the ever globalized food market the US consumer demand for accessible foreign food throughout the year has led researchers to study the effects this may have on food safety in the country.

Published: Feb 20, 2017

Yarok Technology Transfer Ltd., a developer of tests for the fresh food industry, today announced the validation of modules for fast, accurate detection and count of E. coli and Listeria monocytogenes in leafy vegetables with its new technology and testin

Published: Feb 16, 2017

Speaking at a conference on food quality, safety and hygiene in the agricultural sector yesterday,

Published: Feb 16, 2017

Farmers in Ontario helped dispose of more than 125,981 kilograms of obsolete and unwanted pesticides through CleanFARMS’ 2016 collection campaign.

Published: Feb 15, 2017

Potato farmers in the south-west of Australia are worried at the recent discovery of a new pest in the country.

Published: Feb 15, 2017

One program is looking to connect fundamental research with improving cabbage yields in Africa, and in so doing contribute to solving a looming pan-African problem.

Published: Feb 14, 2017

A trial of genetically modified bananas will begin south of Darwin in a few months in hopes of finding a variety resistant to Panama TR4.

Published: Feb 13, 2017

The Parliament in Australia has passed new food labelling laws in response to a case where more than 30 people across Australia contracted hepatitis in 2015 after consuming the same brand of frozen berries.