Strong food hygiene practices start with positive corporate culture
Leadership and efficient communication in food companies have a large impact on hygiene and food safety, according to research conducted at Ghent University.
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Leadership and efficient communication in food companies have a large impact on hygiene and food safety, according to research conducted at Ghent University.
The prosecution followed a series of risk-based enforcement visits and inspections, carried out by the HMI between February 2017 and July 2017.
Making a future for heritage grains, cereals grown by robots, without direct human intervention, and greater food supply chain assurance, provided by blockchain technology, are the three big ideas behind this year’s contenders for the BBC Farming Today Future Food Award.
New research from the European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO) shows that €60 billion is lost each year due to counterfeiting in 13 economic sectors - including wine and spirits.
The frozen food firm's new acquisition generated revenues of around €123 million (£108 million) in the year to April 2018.
Ian Wright also praised Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Secretary Michael Gove as someone he could "do business with".
Whilst the UK is working to slow the use of antibiotics in food-producing animals, in some countries approximately 80 per cent of total consumption of medically important antibiotics is in the animal sector.
The outbreak, which began in April, has now become the most fatal recorded outbreak of E. coli in United States history.
Research has revealed the same food can leave a very different environmental footprint depending on how and where it is produced.
The Food Standards Agency has launched National Food Safety Week, with the focus this year being on the work of FSA staff and thousands of others across the food supply chain working behind-the-scenes to ensure that food is safe and what it says it is.
Brexit may lock the UK out of Europe's extensive food safety databases, leaving it open to high-profile scandals eroding consumer confidence, local councils have warned.
The WHO calls on Heads of State and Government to take ultimate responsibility for NCDs in the report, which was also published in the medical journal The Lancet.
A study of more than 34,000 people investigates the environmental impacts of both food choices and farm production systems.
New research has suggested rational behaviour is not the only thing that keeps Russians from throwing away food - many food-handling practices have been shaped by socio-cultural factors, including the gastronomic trauma suffered in times of famine and scarcity.
A study has used China as an example of how differing regulatory systems can cost economies billions.