Published: Aug 30, 2012 By: Carina Perkins

Hong Kong’s food chief has said that the risk of a local avian influenza (AI) outbreak remains at a “stable and low level”, but warned the poultry industry must remain vigilent.

Published: Aug 30, 2012 By: Mike Stones

The government should step up prosecutions of alcohol smugglers who cost the Treasury £1.2bn/year, according to an influential committee of MPs.

Published: Aug 30, 2012 By: Mike Stones

Pig producers insist that British pork is produced to top welfare standards despite a ruling from the advertising watchdog banning three adverts claiming that Red Tractor pork is produced to higher animal welfare standards.

Published: Aug 30, 2012 By: Ben Bouckley

As reports surface that New York attorney general, Eric Schneiderman, has subpoenaed Monster and PepsiCo in relation to their energy drinks, we ask whether the segment can keep its leather-jacketed cool...

Published: Aug 30, 2012 By: Rod Addy

The Children’s Food Campaign (CFC) has stepped up its assault on food industry advertising, vowing to press on with complaints against Nestlé after winning a challenge against UK confectionery firm Swizzels Matlow.

Published: Aug 29, 2012

The UK has ended months of ambiguity by banning controversial stimulant DMAA, after its medicines agency won an appeal against a retailer of the most popular brand – USPlabs’ Jack3D.

Published: Aug 29, 2012 By: Shane Starling

Europe’s largest pan-European food supplements group says only a major rethink of the way herbal extract science is treated under EU health claim laws will deliver a level playing field.

Published: Aug 29, 2012 By: Rod Addy

Nestlé UK has responded to critics of its cereal advertising that are claiming it contravenes Advertising Standards Association rules, claiming the ASA has given the campaign the thumbs up.

Published: Aug 29, 2012 By: Caroline Scott-Thomas

Sensient Flavors has defended its health and safety record after the Indiana Occupational Health and Safety Administration (IOHSA) found workers at an Indianapolis plant were exposed to high levels of toxic chemicals.

Published: Aug 29, 2012 By: Joe Whitworth

Tyson Foods has been hit with proposed fines of more than $104,000 after a worker was killed at its Dakota City processing facility in March.

Published: Aug 29, 2012 By: Mark Astley

The US Department of Agriculture (USDA) has allowed California-based slaughterhouse Central Valley Meat Co. to reopen after the firm agreed to take action to ensure ‘downer’ animals are not processed.

Published: Aug 29, 2012

A two day workshop on the Asia-Pacific proficiency testing programme for aquatic animal disease diagnostic laboratories was held at Centara Grand Hotel in Bangkok, Thailand.

Published: Aug 29, 2012

A Bill passed by the House of Representatives last week will, if it becomes law, strengthen the compliance powers of the Commonwealth fisheries regulator. The Bill has now been referred to the Senate.

Published: Aug 29, 2012

Government officials, livestock leaders, scientists and peak industry stakeholders met in Sydney this week to review Australia’s preparedness and response capacity for any foot-and-mouth disease (FMD).

Published: Aug 28, 2012 By: Shane Starling

The European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) health claims panel has given short shrift to an appeal by a Malta-based start-up urging it to revise a 2009 rejection of the prebiotic potential of the company’s proprietary Bimuno formulation.

Published: Aug 28, 2012 By: Joe Whitworth

Two companies have been fined after a man was killed when he drove a specialist machine into an unprotected pit in a factory floor during the construction of a food processing plant.

Published: Aug 28, 2012 By: John Wood

A Suffolk-based jam manufacturer and the firm's director have both been fined £4,250 and ordered to pay £6,500 costs, after pleading guilty to 13 charges of falsely claiming that the company’s jams contained locally-sourced produce.

Published: Aug 28, 2012 By: Rod Addy

A court in Brazil has ordered Nestlé to impose mandatory labelling for all its products in the country highlighting more than 1% genetically modified (GM) ingredients.

Published: Aug 27, 2012

Hawkers can no longer ply their trade within a 40m radius from a school's perimeter fence in a move to clamp down on obesity and the sale of unhealthy food to children.

Published: Aug 27, 2012

MILO drink and Nutri-grain cereal are unhealthy, a new nutrient scorecard endorsed by health ministers says.