Published: Nov 22, 2016

The coconut market is booming, but the long-term outlook is not good.

Published: Nov 18, 2016

It's been over 30 years since the alert control system started in the EU, and over 14 years since the publishing of Regulation (EC) 178/2002, where the legal basis of the RASFF (Rapid Alert System for Food & Feed) were set.

Published: Nov 18, 2016

According to news released by The Center for Food Safety (CFS) of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR), a sample of hairy crabs from Hubei province in China mainland had been found containing carcinogenic dioxin.

Published: Nov 17, 2016

Two Porter County restaurants were investigated last week at the behest of the Indiana State Department of Health over concerns about frozen strawberries that could have been contaminated with hepatitis A.

Published: Nov 15, 2016

A review of studies evaluating techniques for producing seedless fruit concludes these techniques can contribute to higher yields that help ensure the security of food supplies.

Published: Nov 14, 2016

In the past two months, there have been a dozen recalls of ice cream and other products for possible Listeria monocytogenes contamination.

Published: Nov 11, 2016

Listeria monocytogenes has been found in three of 100 environmental samples, and in one product sample, taken this past spring at a fresh fruit processing facility in Vernon, CA.

Published: Nov 11, 2016

Recently, the Inspection and Quarantine Bureau of Weihai customs discovered and quarantined a large infection of the dangerous Dysmicoccus Neobrevipes from a traveller who was carrying rambutan.

Published: Nov 11, 2016

A Professor of Mycology/Plant Pathology at Landmark University Omu-Aran, has said that mass cultivation of mushrooms in Nigeria can end food scarcity in the country.

Published: Nov 10, 2016

Five states have posted notices, either on their Facebook pages or on their state web sites, about the facilities that may have received frozen strawberries imported from Egypt that are associated with a hepatitis A outbreak.

Published: Nov 07, 2016

“For the past eight years, we have been targeting the fresh produce industry,” says Elis Owens with Birko.

Published: Nov 04, 2016

Tianjin Airport Inspection and Quarantine Bureau intercepted a batch of illegally-carried fresh sea fish coming from South Korea, finding that a South Korean passenger carried a box of fresh sea fish, which, however, was illegal according to China law.

Published: Nov 02, 2016

The European Commission has let it be known, through the RASFF of the European Union, that a new detection of chlorpyrifos residues, exceeding the EU's MRLs, has been found in Turkish lemons.

Published: Oct 31, 2016

Maximum residue limits are proving problematic for Canadian growers, as the test, which should be used for regulating trade, is in fact being treated as a verdict on food safety.

Published: Oct 31, 2016

Luohu Entry-Exit Inspection and Quarantine Bureau, a branch office of Shenzhen Bureau, intercepted a batch of dry shark fins illegally carried by entry passengers on 23rd October.

Published: Oct 20, 2016

The National Health and Agricultural Food Quality Service (Senasa) and the Ministry of Agricultural Industry, will host the 9th, Western Hemisphere's.

Published: Oct 19, 2016

According to the Xiamen Evening Newspaper, the Xiamen Inspection and Quarantine Bureau recently intercepted a one-time sending from the UK.

Published: Oct 19, 2016

The UK topfruit harvest is well underway and already on the market, but the warm weather has had an impact on fruit size on the initial varieties that have been harvested, especially pears, according to Rik Connor from Fruition.

Published: Oct 19, 2016

An article about the destruction of Belgian topfruit went viral this weekend, and was read more than 200,000 times.

Published: Oct 18, 2016

Hundreds of thousands of kilograms of apples and pears, spread out over the Belgian-Limburg land, are ready to be destroyed.