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Horse meat: final report on FSA response
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...
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Pesticides & Contaminants supplement 2013
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)
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More results of beef product testing published
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...
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Horse meat review – key findings
4 June 2013 | By FSA
At Food Standards Agency open Board meeting, Professor Pat Troop presented the key findings...
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Horsemeat scandal – Food scientists call for control measures
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...
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The growing global epidemic of food fraud
Recent news headlines regarding the evidence of horsemeat in beef products has drawn worldwide attention to the growing problem of food fraud.
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Meat Processing supplement 2013
In this supplement: Pork quality and carcass chilling; Preventing another horsemeat scandal; Enhancing the perceived saltiness of meat products with juiciness...
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Foreign body complaints in the food and drink industry
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…
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Can we prevent another horsemeat scandal?
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…
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Results of Europe-wide beef product survey published
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...
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Very low levels of bute found in Asda ‘Smart Price Corned Beef’
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...
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Update on Agency’s beef product survey
9 April 2013 | By FSA
The FSA has confirmed results for four of the remaining five samples relating to the Agency’s UK-wide sampling programme of beef products...
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Hungarian horse meat labelled as beef
22 March 2013 | By Food Standards Agency (FSA)
The Food Standards Agency has been informed by Lancashire County Council that it has identified 100kg of horse meat imported from Hungary labelled as beef...
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Burger company withdraws products
22 March 2013 | By Food Standards Agency (FSA)
Testing has shown that three samples of beef burger products made by The Burger Manufacturing Company, have tested positive for at least 1% horse meat...
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Cutting plant suspension lifted
18 March 2013 | By Food Standards Agency (FSA)
The FSA has granted conditional approval to the Aberystwyth meat plant that had its approval suspended during the horse meat investigations...
