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Most fowl: Poultry tops the table of recalled foods
Chicken and other poultry meats were recalled more than any other food in the last three months, according to new figures, with bacterial infection logged as the most common cause.
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Salmonella test time cut to a single day by researchers
A new test, developed by Cornell University, allows accurate, rapid testing for Salmonella bacteria, one of the leading causes of food-borne illness across all regions of the world.
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Dairy drop drives global food prices down
The FAO's Food Price Index, a measure of the monthly change in international prices of a food basket, saw a drop last month - largely driven by the first decline in dairy for six months.
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Food Brexit: More clarity needed
Back in 2002 the then US Secretary of Defence Donald Rumsfeld was roundly mocked for his infamous “known unknowns and unknown unknowns speech.” Though most people could understand what Rumsfeld was trying to say, the public simply wasn’t ready for the way he said it. It turns out that the…
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Sensitive and selective analysis of fipronil residues in eggs using Thermo Scientific GC-MS/MS triple quadrupole technology
Pesticides are chemicals used to protect crops and control a variety of pests such as weeds, fungi, rodents, and insects.
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Slimmer GMO pigs an ‘exciting’ breakthrough – but probably won’t fly in America
Scientists in China have bred a line of low-fat pigs that fare well in cold temperatures, a new friend to the consumer's waistline and the farmer's wallet. But it doesn't seem likely they'll take in America.
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2 Sisters’ chief apologises at House of Commons committee hearing
The CEO of the hygiene scandal-struck 2 Sisters Food Group has apologised before the British House of Commons Environment and Rural Affairs Committee.
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Raw meat sellers in San Francisco must now give details of antibiotics used
In a bid to cut down on antibiotic resistance, the San Francisco Board of Supervisors has passed a law making it obligatory for certain meat sellers to report the use of antibiotics in their products.
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Get set for Brexit – see the full line up for Food Brexit, chaired by the John Pienaar
With less than a week to go, time is running out to catch food business experts putting their heads together over the challenges of Brexit.
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Is your baby food product fully protected?
After a recent blackmail case in Germany in which baby food was poisoned with ethylene glycol, we hear from Mettler Toledo about tampering protection.
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Antelope perfume drives flies away from cattle
Scientist have used an 'antelope perfume' to keep tsetse flies from cows, cutting sleeping sickness rates by 80 per cent.
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The state of affairs in one of the world’s biggest red meat-exporting nations
A report from the Red Meat Advisory Council Ltd has put Australia as the world's biggest red meat exporter.
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A chance to hear what leading food industry figures think of Brexit – right on parliament’s doorstep
New Food is bringing together a host of experts from all over the industry in the heart of London to outline where they think Brexit is headed.
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Formaldehyde vapour treatment may soon be a thing of the past in egg hatcheries
Researchers have tested an alternative method to sanitise hatching eggs without using carcinogenic formaldehyde.
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Global health bodies launch road map to combat bovine tuberculosis and its transmission to humans
Bovine TB can be transferred from cows to humans through food, killing 12,000 people a year. A new plan maps out how global health bodies will fight back.
