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Survey of French frozen chicken finds 23 per cent contains too much water
Samples of chicken of varying national origin were taken from 37 different establishments in France and tested for compliance with European water-content regulation.
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Salmon farmers set up ‘unique fingerprint’ to fight food fraud
A salmon farming company has joined forces with traceability experts, creating unique fingerprints to verify the origin of their fish.
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Blockchain, waste and nutrigenomics: the rising trends of 2018
A not-for-profit organisation aimed at providing food information to consumers has put together a list of its top trends for 2018.
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The Sins of Seafood
4 January 2018 | By Agilent
With seafood and aquaculture being the most valuable and highest traded commodity in the world, it’s an industry which inevitably is the most susceptible to fraud...
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Bioelectronic ‘nose’ to sniff out rotting food
Scientists have used a receptor found in zebrafish to detect the scent of a compound given off by rotting meat.
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Northern Irish food and agricultural research projects awarded £2 million
Several food and agricultural research projects in Norther Ireland have been awarded nearly £2 million in funding between them. The research projects all focus on improving food safety, security and transparency right through the system. They include Food Fortress, a scheme investigating an effective surveillance system for detecting and preventing…
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Experts warn of ‘dirty’ turkey if UK strikes a US trade deal
Brexit may put the UK consumer at risk as new research shows chemical treatments on poultry common in USA fail to meet EU safety standards.
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Food analysis firms team up to boost transparency in food supply
Two American companies have announced a partnership aimed at using new techniques and analytical chemistry expertise to uncover nutritional value in food.
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Blockchain project sets out to defend Australia’s world-class beef
As the blockchain revolution rumbles on, its application to the food industry is becoming more and more apparent. Now it's the turn of Australian beef to step into this brave new world.
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Food legal diversity – harmonising across cultural divides?
Global differences in the manner and content of the regulation of food safety and other food-related issues stem from a wide variety of sources including history, culture, fear, protectionism and politics. Obviously these categories – if categories they are – are overlapping rather than mutually exclusive. Bernd van der Meulen,…
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International Symposium on Recent Advances in Food Analysis review
The 8th International Symposium on Recent Advances in Food Analysis (RAFA 2017) was held on 7 – 10 November 2017 in Prague, Clarion Congress hotel Prague, Czech Republic. The meeting was organised jointly by the University of Chemistry and Technology, Prague (UCT Prague, Czech Republic) and RIKILT, Wageningen University &…
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Meat & Poultry In-Depth Focus
In this In-Depth Focus we hear how a 150-year-old family farm uses production methods that cooperate with nature to produce artisan products. Also, Neil Giles from Mettler Toledo, looks at the vital importance of product inspection in the meat and poultry industry.
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Application Note: Foreign body investigations
Foreign bodies are one of the biggest problems for food manufacturers. Thousands of tonnes of food production can be lost when a foreign body is discovered, and the cost of a recall – if deemed necessary – can run into millions. Roger Angold, RSSL Microscopy Laboratory, explains...
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Application Note: Sensitive method for the determination of fipronil
Fipronil is a broad-spectrum insecticide from the group of phenylpyrazoles used in many countries as a biocide and for plant protection product against fleas, lice, ticks, cockroaches, mites and other insects...
