Ready-to-eat chicken nuggets could be contaminated by L. monocytogenes. This is what a new study, published in Food 2021, says. The Agricultural University of Athens, the University of Patras in Greece, and the [...]
Which are the most prevalent mycotoxins in crops? To answer this question, in 2020 Biomin GmbH analyzed more than 20 000 samples from 79 countries, finding that the most common mycotoxins globally are the Fusar [...]
China’s government sets new rules on traceability of all food products transported via cold-chain, like milk and dairy products, vegetables, fruits, and drinks. These restrictions have been implemented since [...]
During the first lockdown (March-May 2020) in the UK, a lot of people in the catering sector lost their job. Some of them decided to reinvent themself as home-made food business entrepreneurs. A report from Foo [...]
After the 2011 Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant disaster, 54 different countries around the globe implemented restriction measures to control Japanese food products that were made in prefectures near Fukushima. [...]
The government of New Zealand recently declared dairy products and sprouts key food poisoning risks for pregnant women, based on the latest report from the New Zealand Food Safety (NZFS) department under the Mi [...]
The recent EFSA Scientific Committee Opinion draft on the biological plausibility of non-monotonic dose responses (NMDR) and their impact on risk assessment has been characterized as “inaccurate” by the End [...]
In Japan, a new genetically-engineered tomato, named “Sicilian Rouge High-GABA”, modified with CRISPR technology has recently been approved by a health ministry committee.GABA (gamma-aminobutyric acid) is a [...]
Researchers from Saudi Arabia, Egypt and China have found that fishes caught on the Jeddah Coast, East side of the Red Sea, have high levels of heavy metals.The research, published in Saudi Journal of Biologica [...]
SwissDeCode, a Swiss biotech company foundend in 2016 and specialized in a variety of rapid on-site testing solutions for food contamination and adulteration, has closed its first venture round, raising CHF 3.7 [...]
