WEBINAR: Food Allergen Risk Management: Breaching the Gap
16/04/2021 - 14:00 - 15:30 GMT +1
Heavy metals levels in baby food: a new FDA’s action plan
FDA announced its new plan against baby food heavy metals contamination. It is titled “Closer to Zero”, and it will represent a project aiming to lower levels of arsenic, lead, cadmium, and mercury in baby food by carrying out various ac [...]
ANSES report claims bisphenol B as a substance of very high concerns
The French Agency for Food, Environmental and Occupational Health & Safety (ANSES) published a concerning report on bisphenol B (BPB). This product has become increasingly utilized in food packaging as a substitution of bisphenol A [...]
Canada: New laws for GMOs and gene editing
Canada’s risk assessment policy for genetically modified plants (GMOs) and food products is being amended. The regulatory supervision will continue to be applied to GMOs that contain foreign DNA. However, the new category of GMOs, the gene-edited organisms [...]
Validation and Verification: the ISO 16140 scheme to choose the best method for your microbiological laboratory
Laboratory managers can choose between plate-based reference methods or proprietary methods. Faster but often more expensive, how can we be sure proprietary methods meet or exceed reference [...]
Do standards protect the olive oil consumer?
A complex interrelationship of global, regional, national, and private trade and analytical standards for olive oil and olive oil grading provides assurance at every step from tree to consumer. IntroductionOlive oil is an ancient food oil with a long hist [...]
The difference between Russian and Codex/EU/Chinese maximum levels for chemical substances in food of animal origin
The list of regulated chemical substances is different, the maxium allowed concentrations are sometimes different and in each country or Federation there are often changes in the regula [...]
Food safety risk communication in the digital age
Digital communication technologies have tremendous potential to facilitate effective risk communication about existing and emerging food safety threats. However, some caution regarding social exclusion and ethical issues is needed. The need for effec [...]
Russia-China trade is stalled by food safety issues
China and Russia are on a fast track to ramp up food trade, but several food safety issues must be solved first.Russia is eager to partially replace US products in the Chinese food market, but ongoing food safety disagreements remain a stumbling blo [...]
Cotecna tackles the giants of the food testing market
How Neotron, a prominent Italian food testing laboratory, is becoming part of the growth strategy of the Swiss inspection and certification company.Cotecna Inspection SAFounded: 1974Present in: 50 countriesNumber of Laboratories/offices: 160Revenu [...]
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