Every year, about 70 000 tons of sesame seeds are imported to Europe, and half of them are from India. This data manifests the idea of the diffusion of the ingredient, which is found to stand alone as a spice o [...]
PreScouter published a new report that analyzes different strategies to detect toxic metals in food and beverages. This research follows the recent congressional US report that has brought the problem of signif [...]
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 [...]
