Published: Sep 20, 2012 By: Mike Stones

Food safety watchdog the Food Standards Agency (FSA) needs more time to study controversial research linking Monsanto’s herbicide Roundup and genetically modified (GM) maize with premature death, its spokesman told FoodManufacture.co.uk today.

Published: Sep 20, 2012 By: Ankush Chibber

Australia’s pro-environment party has moved to introduce new laws designed to ensure that consumers are made aware of their food's country of origin.

Published: Sep 20, 2012 By: Ben Bouckley

The UK Food Standards Agency (FSA) is advising travelers to the Czech Republic to avoid locally produced bootleg spirits following a spate of methanol poisonings the country and over 20 deaths, as one local producer said the crisis had hit his business ha

Published: Sep 20, 2012 By: Caroline Scott-Thomas

The Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) has rejected a complaint from the Real Bread Campaign about the advertising of ABF Grain Products’ Allinson brand loaves.

Published: Sep 19, 2012 By: Foodmate Team

A high-fat diet early in life may increase a woman’s risk of developing breast cancer, according to a new research.

Published: Sep 19, 2012 By: Foodmate Team

Dole Food has reached an agreement with Itochu Corporation of Japan to sell its packaged goods and Asia Fresh Produce businesses for US$1.69bn in cash.

Published: Sep 19, 2012 By: Foodmate Team

China's vice-president Xi Jinping has called on educational institutions to raise the profile of food safety issues and prevent misconduct in the industry.

Published: Sep 19, 2012 By: Foodmate Team

A few places remain for the Agency’s keynote lecture and Chief Scientist’s annual report launch next week. The event is being held at the Royal Society, London, on the evening of Thursday 27 September 2012, with registration starting from 5.30pm.

Published: Sep 19, 2012 By: John Wood

The UK poultry industry has teamed up with the retailer Morrisons to launch a campaign to fight a planned tax on rotisserie chickens.

Published: Sep 19, 2012 By: Elaine WATSON

Dannon has dismissed a class action lawsuit alleging that its Activia yogurts do not meet FDA-approved standards of identity as “poorly informed and frivolous”.

Published: Sep 19, 2012 By: Caroline Scott-Thomas

Millions of Europeans are still at increased risk of heart disease due to consumption of artificial trans fatty acids, according to a new pan-European review published in BMJ Open.

Published: Sep 18, 2012 By: JACOB E. OSTERHOUT

While some consider milk a nutritional powerhouse, others see it as unnecessary for good health and question the rationale behind some government-related programs that try to help the marketing of milk.

Published: Sep 18, 2012 By: DAN FLYNN

The trial that put raw milk protestors on the streets of Minneapolis last spring finally got underway Monday in Hennepin County District Court.

Published: Sep 18, 2012 By: Rod Addy

The Minnesota Department of Agriculture (MDA) has won $600,000 in grants from the US Food and Drug Administration to enhance the state’s food safety capabilities.

Published: Sep 18, 2012

3M Food Safety has received AOAC-PTM Certification for its Molecular Detection Assay Listeria for Environmental Testing.

Published: Sep 18, 2012 By: Carina Perkins

Russia has lifted a ban on breeding cattle from the British Columbia region of Canada with imports to commence immediately.

Published: Sep 18, 2012 By: Carina Perkins

The European Parliament has endorsed proposed new rules which will make it easier for food producers’ groups to obtain an EU quality label for food produced in a specific geographical area or in a traditional way.

Published: Sep 17, 2012 By: Foodmate Team

KHOU 11 News in Houston reports on a KFC in Conroe, Tex. that served spoiled chicken.

Published: Sep 17, 2012 By: Foodmate Team

Obese patients with type 2 diabetes who consume higher amounts of fructose display reduced levels of liver adenosine triphosphate (ATP)—a compound involved in the energy transfer between cells, according to a new study published in the journal Hepatology.

Published: Sep 15, 2012 By: Foodmate Team

American website selling illegal diet pills. The pills can cause heart attack and stroke.