China International Food Safety & Quality (CIFSQ) Conference
Safe food is essential to everyone's health. Around the world, governments and businesses share the enormous responsibility for safeguarding food. This challenging job happens to benefit immensely from multilateral knowledge sharing, collab [...]
The EU Commission is planning to deregulate New GE
On September 24, 2021, the European Commission released its Inception Impact Assessment on "Legislation for plants produced by certain new genomic techniques". It is based on a prior working paper on the legal position of new genomic techniques (NGT) [...]
Less bureaucracy for GMOs obtained with New Breeding Techniques in England
The United Kingdom is becoming further committed to allow new GMOs to enter the market. The requirements for performing field testing using seeds generated by gene editing have been eased in London. London intend [...]
Titanium Dioxide will be banned as a food ingredient in the EU beginning of 2022
The European Commission's proposal to ban the use of Titanium Dioxide (E171) as a food additive starting from 2022 was accepted by Member States last week. The Commission's recommendation is based on a scie [...]
New opinion on Ochratoxin A in cheeses and pork products
The Italian National Committee for Food Safety (CNSA) has published an opinion based on a Technical Report produced in cooperation with the National Reference Laboratory for Mycotoxins on the current state of knowledge about Ochratoxin A (OTA) [...]
Even more baby foods contain dangerous levels of toxic heavy metals, according to new disclosures
Earlier this year, in February 2021, the Subcommittee on Economic and Consumer Policy released its first report “Baby Foods Are Tainted with Dangerous Levels of Arsenic, Lead, Cadmium, and Mercury. [...]
Aflatoxin M1, is it time for a change?
In the last 20 years, aflatoxin M1 has been found in milk in southern Europe at unprecedented levels on several occasions. Is it the result of climate change? What do experts think about the risk for consumers, both now and in the future? Is the best approach to [...]
Organic food production safety: is organic food safer?
Organic food is promoted as “better” food. But what does “better” mean? And do industrialised processes mean organic production encounters the same pitfalls as conventional agriculture? Introduction Consumer [...]
The notorious case of Campylobacter spp.: an overview of the increasingly antimicrobial-resistant foodborne pathogen
With Campylobacter infections on the rise and treatment options disappearing because of growing antimicrobial resistance, how should the food industry respond? The first author and al [...]
India’s food safety ecosystem
India’s food safety system is complex and continually evolving to support five million food business operators and to share responsibility for a safe global food supply. Introduction India is the leading global producer of a num [...]
Russia is shaping up laboratory diagnostic system
Russian authorities and businesses have yet to achieve a consensus on how best to improve the domestic food market laboratory testing system. The Russian government is set to strengthen the state laboratory diagnostic system in order to ensure [...]
Analytical laboratories in the food industry: in-house or third-party? (Or both?)
There is a temptation - and a risk - to externalizing internal activities like laboratory diagnostics. Is an internal lab always necessary? Is an external lab always better? The answer lies somewhere in between. & [...]
Reducing pre-enrichment time for fastidious bacteria detection via Real-Time PCR
Overcoming the bottlenecks slowing rapid methods, looking beyond the speed of qPCR Microbiological quality and safety of food, feed and water is a major global concern. Many people suffer from illnesses th [...]
On-site allergen management with a rapid test solution
A perfect tool for implementing the allergen analysis as part of the food safety quality control assessment. It is well known that food allergies are an immune system reaction to a food or a substance in food. Even a tiny amount of allerg [...]
Recent analytical developments in allergen analysis
New assay for measurement of gluten in oats and avoiding false negatives in the analysis of milk substitutes. While there are many kits available for the detection of gluten from wheat, barley and rye, there has not been a reliable ki [...]
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