The dairy industry’s biggest lobbying body, Dairy UK is to issue a tough code of practice for unpasteurised milk processors ahead of a major review of ‘green top’ sales.
The US Department of Agriculture (USDA) has outlined a series of measures to conduct future meat product trace backs in a “pre-emptive”manner to catch E.coli O157:H7 contamination at an earlier stage.
Global food prices fell by 1.4% in the last month but seem to have stabilised at a relatively high level, says the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO).
Published: May 07, 2012
By: P.J. Curtis, M. Sampson
Supplementation with cacao-flavonoids and soy isoflavones may improve levels of biomarkers of heart disease in postmenopausal, diabetic women, says a new study.
‘Eater-tainment’, ‘SuperSense’ and ‘Food Telling’ are among the food consumer trends predicted to be prominent in 2020 by researchers at Spain’s Azti-Tecnalia research and development centre.
An international trade coalition has called for more harmonised legislation on printing inks used in food contact materials (FCM) as it issued comprehensive in-house guidance notes in a bid to aid safe practice and compliance from players.
The Indian packaged food industry is forecast to see average annual growth of up to 20% that will see it double in value to reach US$30bn by 2015, according to a leading trade body in the country.
Dairy Crest and Robert Wiseman Dairies are cutting the price they pay suppliers for milk, with both citing the current ‘challenging’ market environment.
The U.S. Centers for CDC was able to connect contaminated dog food to a Salmonella outbreak spread across nine states on Thursday thanks to a combination of routine state-level testing and a national online infection database operated by the CDC itself.
FunFresh Foods, Inc. is voluntarily recalling a single lot of its 6 ounce packages of FunFresh Foods™ World Berries™ Organic “Cacao Nibs” because they may be contaminated with Escherichia coli O157:H7 bacteria (E. Coli O157:H7).
H-E-B is voluntarily recalling certain Asian Ready-to-Eat meals due to the possibility of undercooked chicken in those meals, according to the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA).
Maple Leaf Foods reported that its net earnings dropped to C$0.8m ($0.8m) for the first quarter ended March 31, 2012, compared to C$10.5m ($10.64m) the previous year.
The Canadian Food Inspection Agency is implementing new import measures to protect Canadian livestock from an outbreak of vesicular stomatitis reported in New Mexico, United States.
