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20 January 2016 | By Victoria White
As well as revising the general scientific guidance, EFSA has updated its specific guidance for claims related to the immune system and the gastro-intestinal tract...
13 January 2016 | By Victoria White
Bio-Rad will contribute leading-edge expertise in chromogenic and molecular tests for food pathogens and food quality indicators to the consortium...
11 January 2016 | By Victoria White
KP Snacks has announced that it has introduced Snap-on tool management onto its production line...
11 January 2016 | By Victoria White
A study has found that a 10% tax on sugar sweetened drinks in Mexico was also associated with an overall 4% increase in purchases of untaxed beverages in the first year of implementation...
6 January 2016 | By Victoria White
Between 9 and 16 July 2015, a high proportion of samples of raw shellfish, 40 out of 67 samples, taken from beds along the South West and South coast generated exceptionally high E.coli results...
5 January 2016 | By Victoria White
The Sugar Smart app works by scanning the barcode of products and revealing the amount of total sugar it contains in cubes and grams...
23 December 2015 | By Victoria White
In a recent study prompted by an increased number of outbreaks in the US of foodborne diseases linked to dry foods, pathogens, like salmonella, were found to survive for at least six months in biscuits, cookies and crackers...
22 December 2015 | By Victoria White
The latest annual report by EFSA and ECDC has found that human cases of listeriosis and campylobacteriosis rose once again in 2014, continuing an upward trend that began in 2008...
21 December 2015 | By Victoria White
Digital package printing and flexible hybrid packaging are among the six key trends set to impact the global packaging markets in 2016...
17 December 2015 | By Victoria White
General Mills has met or exceeded its goal to reduce sodium by 20% in seven of ten US retail product categories, with reductions across the 10 categories ranging from 18 to 35 percent...
15 December 2015 | By Engilico
After the successful integration of its first SealScope™ inspection system on a horizontal flow pack line in 2014, Hazeleger Cheese* decided to install the SealScope™ technology on a second packaging line...
15 December 2015 | By Victoria White
Food safety specialists Acoura believe that the risk of superbug infection from British red meat is extremely low due to the limited use of antibiotics in the supply chain...
14 December 2015 | By Victoria White
The campaign uses tongue-in-cheek humour to get the food safety message across, featuring Santa Claus stricken by a bout of food poisoning...
9 December 2015 | By New Food
In this issue: Allergens, Confectionery supplement, Food Fraud, Mass Spectrometry, Microbiology, Dairy Supplement, Food Contamination roundtable, Shelf Life, Energy Efficiency, Application Notes...
9 December 2015 | By Victoria White
The proposed revised goals are to reduce sugar to 5% of total energy, increase dietary fibre intake to 30g per day, and to maintain total carbohydrate at 50% of total energy with no more than 5% total energy from sugar...
