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Food Standards Agency appoints Jason Feeney as CEO
Jason has been part of the FSA since joining as Chief Operating Officer in January 2015.
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Initiative on resource efficiency: reducing food waste, improving food safety
11 April 2017 | By New Food
On 11 April, the ENVI Committee voted on the above-mentioned draft report. This own-initiative report is part of the follow-up to the Commission’s Circular Economy Action Plan. It addresses issues such as date marking, the promotion of food donation and the role of food packaging.
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Risk to consumers remains low from pesticide residues in food
11 April 2017 | By New Food
Food consumed in the European Union continues to be largely free of pesticide residues or to contain residues that fall within legal limits, new figures show.
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The green food revolution sweeping across Silicon Valley
The world is bearing witness to a green revolution that sees tech startups in Silicon Valley produce innovative plant-based alternative to meat and dairy.
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927 food items mislabelled as Japanese
10 April 2017 | By New Food
927 items were mislabelled as Japanese products, according to a survey by the Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries Ministry
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RUMA response to new antibiotic paper from Royal Society
6 April 2017 | By New Food
The Royal Society has published a new paper “Modelling the impact of curtailing antibiotic usage in food animals on antibiotic resistance in humans”
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Persistently high levels of pesticides found in small streams
4 April 2017 | By EAWAG: Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology
Small watercourses are contaminated with large numbers of herbicides, fungicides and insecticides.
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Do you need a magnetic separator or metal detector?
3 April 2017 | By BUNTING Magnetics Europe Ltd
5 key questions to ask before making a decision...
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Join the movement to make sustainable chocolate the norm
The cocoa and chocolate industry is currently running against a fundamentally unsustainable model. Barry Callebaut's Peter Boone urges change...
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New safe seafood guides available for consumers, industry stakeholders and policymakers
31 March 2017 | By AquaTT
The EU-funded ECsafeSEAFOOD project has published three safe seafood guides that aim to help consumers, industry stakeholders and policymakers understand the benefits and risks associated with seafood consumption.
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Designing sensors to detect foreign bodies in food
31 March 2017 | By Elhuyar Fundazioa; New Food
Researchers at the NUP/UPNA-Public University of Navarre and the Navarre-based company Anteral S.L. have designed a novel system of sensors to improve quality control in the food sector and based on terahertz technology.
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Triggering Article 50 – comment from NOAH
29 March 2017 | By New Food
Triggering of Article 50 should mark an increase in certainty and stability for NOAH member businesses
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Food Standards Scotland statement on the release of the Dunsyre Blue E. coli O157 report
29 March 2017 | By Food Standards Scotland
Food Standards Scotland fully supports report that concludes that Dunsyre Blue cheese was the source of the E. coli O157 outbreak
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Food packaging rules misleading and potentially dangerous, new research confirms
28 March 2017 | By New Food
Food packaging is not tailored enough to contents, a team from Université Paris-Saclay has found, and could be causing the spread of chemicals.
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African swine fever spreading slowly, report suggests
23 March 2017 | By EFSA
African swine fever is spreading slowly in the Baltic countries and Poland, according to the latest epidemiological data analysed by these Member States and EFSA.
