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Food fraud goes wider than food adulteration
Is there more to the food fraud issue than meets the eye?
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New way to detect Palmer amaranth in contaminated seedlots
Palmer amaranth, the aggressive and hard-to-kill weed, has established itself in droves. As a possible solution, some states declared Palmer a noxious weed, which prohibits its sale and transport.
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Evaluation of ISO method 21527-1 compared with other yeast and mould detection systems
Yiping Chen and Ruth Fowler of the Institute of Life and Earth Sciences at Heriot-Watt University offer their insight.
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RUMA adopts European Medicines Agency ‘highest priority’ antibiotics list
The European Medicines Agency’s (EMA’s) list of highest priority ‘critically important antibiotics’ (CIAs) has been officially adopted by RUMA.
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Fighting food fraud: Testing without the wait
Food fraud is everywhere. Dr. Neil Sharma, Head of Research and Product Development at InstantLabs, argues that it is by improving testing accuracy and frequency that we can help to stamp it out....
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Eat the food you trust; trust the food you eat | Lessons from Food Fraud 2017
Food Fraud 2017 highlighted just how serious an issue food fraud has become. It's organised, criminal and widespread, but there are solutions that we must explore...
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FSSAI gets online access to food standards of over 170 countries
FSSAI will henceforth get access to database for food additives, food standards, food contact and contaminants from over 170 countries.
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MyToolBox – the smart way to tackle mycotoxins
There is a pressing need to mobilise and integrate the wealth of knowledge from the international mycotoxin research conducted over the past 25-30 years, in order to perform cutting-edge research to close knowledge gaps. This is the mission of MyToolBox – a four-year project, funded by the European Commission from…
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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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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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New teardrop tube magnet from Bunting
1 March 2017 | By Bunting Magnetics
Bunting has developed a new design of Rare Earth Tube Magnet for use in removing fine iron from dry powders...
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An essential guide to food safety challenges in the 21st Century
24 February 2017 | By Roy Manuell | Digital Editor
New Food brings you a 21st Century update on developments and improvements in food safety...
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The perils of detecting pathogenic bacteria in foods
Testing foods for microbes may seem archaic when compared to testing for the presence of chemicals. After all, chemists get to use very expensive grey boxes with blinking lights and labelled with an alphabet soup of acronyms. Not only that, they can sometimes do screens of hundreds of analytes in…
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Testing foods for the presence of microbial contaminants
22 December 2016 | By J. A. Hudson; N. Cook
While there are relatively few microbial pathogens which are tested for in foods compared to the number of chemicals which might be sought, cheap, sensitive and rapid methods remain elusive...
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A hidden nightmare: Allergies, intolerance and food safety
17 November 2016 | By Rene Duchesne, Food Safety Manager, Cavalier Candies Ltd.
We ask Food Safety Manager Rene Duchesne to discuss the importance of precautionary measures in product manufacturing when working with allergens...
