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1 May 2014 | By Duncan Goodwin, Director of Technical Services, NSF Supply Chain Assurance Division
‘Foreign body’ is a technical term which refers to any extraneous matter, whether of a physical, chemical or biological nature, found in food. Usually foreign bodies render the food unfit for human consumption.
From salmonella outbreaks to E.coli contamination, when something goes wrong within the food industry, the problem often becomes headline news.
5 March 2014 | By Saskia van Ruth, Head of Authenticity & Novel Foods Business Unit & Professor of Food Authenticity and Integrity and Rob Frankhuizen, Scientist, State Institute for Quality Control of Agricultural Products, RIKILT Wageningen University and Research Centre
Nowadays foods and ingredients are sourced from many different parts of the globe. Since the 1960s, global food transport has been increasing at an exponential rate, faster than food production itself. For certain countries, this network ensures access to any food item regardless of season or origin. The number of…
19 July 2013 | By FSA
The FSA has been informed that a frozen meat pie product that was found to contain horse DNA has been withdrawn from sale...
5 July 2013 | By FSA
Professor Pat Troop has completed her independent review of the FSA’s response to the adulteration of processed beef products...
24 June 2013 | By Carl K. Winter, Markus Lipp, Jeffrey Moore
Pesticide biomonitoring: applications and limitations for food safety risk assessment (Carl K. Winter Department of Food Science and Technology, University of California, Davis)Novel yeasts, novel flavours (Markus Lipp and Jeffrey Moore US Pharmacopeial Convention)
13 June 2013 | By Food Standards Agency
The Food Standards Agency is confirming it has received a further 19,050 industry results from testing beef products for horse DNA...
4 June 2013 | By FSA
At Food Standards Agency open Board meeting, Professor Pat Troop presented the key findings...
9 May 2013 | By Institute of Food Science and Technology (IFST)
IFST’s Consultancy group responds with its position on how to approach this issue of food fraud and authenticity...
Recent news headlines regarding the evidence of horsemeat in beef products has drawn worldwide attention to the growing problem of food fraud.
In this supplement: Pork quality and carcass chilling; Preventing another horsemeat scandal; Enhancing the perceived saltiness of meat products with juiciness...
26 April 2013 | By Mike Edwards, Microscopy Section, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Campden BRI and EHEDG affiliate
Foreign bodies form the biggest single cause of consumer complaints received by many food and drink manufacturers, retailers and enforcement authorities. The accidental inclusion of unwanted items may sometimes occur in even the bestmanaged processes. Foreign bodies in foods are therefore quite rightly a matter of concern to all food…
26 April 2013 | By Helen Bahia
Food fraud on an international scale is a reality – current preventive measures are not working and new techniques and tools are needed to address the problem, say experts. The recent revelation of large-scale and criminal food fraud involving the adulteration of processed meat products with horsemeat has cost the…
16 April 2013 | By FDA
In February the EC asked all member states to carry out a survey of beef products to check for the presence of horse DNA...
9 April 2013 | By FSA
The FSA has been informed by Asda that very low levels of bute, have been found in 340g tins of its Smart Price Corned Beef...
