Last week, officers from the Immigration and Checkpoints Authority (ICA) seized thousands of cartons of duty-unpaid cigarettes declared as vegetables in a lorry.
Philippine government researchers are in the thick of finalizing their studies on how to address the problem caused by the Cecid fly, as the infestation threatens the nation’s mango yield.
A team from the Fraunhofer Institute for Cell Therapy and Immunology, Branch Bioanalytics and Bioprocesses are working with the German microbiology and food analysis laboratory Selektis LLC as part of a ProFIT project running from 2018 to 2020.
Nestlé and Carrefour are joining forces to help parents get their children to adopt a healthier and more sustainable diets, promoting daily consumption of fruits and vegetables.
US Federal officials still can’t say for sure where the blackberries came from, but today they repeated their public warning about fresh berries that were sold in the fall of 2019 and linked to a multi-state hepatitis A outbreak.
Between November 7th, 2019, and January 11th, 2020, 165 people were infected with the outbreak strain of Salmonella Javiana according to reports from 14 states.
Research that examines Listeria survival on whole apples in storage and after waxing could fill data gaps and help the industry target risk-reduction measures in packinghouses.
Food Standards Australia New Zealand (FSANZ) is reassessing the need to amend the Australia New Zealand Food Standards Code, to enact a primary production and processing standard to manage food safety for high-risk horticulture.
After affecting six countries in Europe as well as Turkey, the United States and China, a particularly devastating virus is threatening tomatoes, peppers and chilli plants in France.
