AOAC INTERNATIONAL (AOAC) has recently announced the availability for public comment of its validation guidance document for qualitative assays of gluten. Gluten, a dietary protein found in wheat, [...]
History repeats itself. A dessert sold as vegan, but which contained - according to initial analyses - traces of dairy products, had recently caused the death of a 20-year-old girl allergic to milk since birth. [...]
Food and ingredient manufacturing company Kerry Inc. has recently pleaded guilty to a charge that it manufactured breakfast cereal under insanitary conditions at a plant facility that was linked to a 2018 salmo [...]
The Joint FAO/WHO Expert Meetings on Microbiological Risk Assessment (JEMRA) has recently published a technical report on the prevention and control of microbiological hazards in sprouts. This report is the res [...]
A group of researchers from the Sorbonne Paris Nord University, in collaboration with the Nutrition And Cancer Research Network, has recently published a study in the peer-reviewed journal PLOS Medicine, which [...]
A recently published study, carried out by the DTU National Food Institute in collaboration with the Danish Veterinary and Food Administration (Fdevarestyrelsen), has found per- and poly-fluoroalkyl substances [...]
Since 2020, the food safety inspectorates of the Faroe Islands, Iceland, Denmark, Norway, and Sweden have worked together to develop a common Nordic approach to risk management of food safety in seaweed and kel [...]
The state of California has recently amended the California Proposition 65, which requires businesses to provide warnings to Californians about significant exposures to toxic chemicals, by adding a new section [...]
The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has recently published a draft guidance to provide information to the industries on the “action levels” (levels at which FDA may regard a food as adulterate [...]
A group of researchers from Duke University (US) has recently published a review of contaminant testing data from across the United States showing that so-called “forever chemicals” (PFAS) have been [...]
