Food Safety Round Up 1st October 2012

 

News
Enhancing Food Safety: EU adopts list of approved flavouring substances
Focus News
Brussels. Flavouring substances in food will become even safer and more transparent thanks to two pieces of legislation adopted today by the European Commission. Only those flavouring substances featuring on the approved lists will be permitted for use
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Beef Recall Shows Food Safety
Portage Online
“The actions the CFIA is taking are the actions necessary to ensure that our food safety system is secure, that our products are safe, and that you don’t have to think about it when you go to the store and pick up a pound of ground beef,” he says. Dahl
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SDIX Sells Food Safety and GMO Businesses to Romer Labs for $13.5 Million
PYMNTS.com
SDIX™ (NASDAQ: SDIX), a leading provider of biotechnology-based products and services, today announced it has entered into an agreement to sell the assets of its Food Safety and GMO businesses to Romer Labs for $13.5 million. Following this
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Industry Out Front With Food Safety Programs
Supermarket News
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s food safety rules — in accordance with the Food Safety Modernization Act — have not yet been published, but the produce industry shows little concern because the industry has been working on its own with
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Supermarket News
Food Safety: FG Begins Certification for Aquaculture Industry
THISDAY Live
To ensure the safety of food of animal origins, the Federal Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development has embarked on certification of the aquaculture industry in the country. Permanent Secretary of the ministry, Dr Ezekiel Oyemomi, stated this at
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Food Testing Program Helps Other Countries Build Trade Capacity
Food Safety News
After one year in operation, the International Food Safety Training Lab is doing exactly what it was founded to do: train foreign scientists in leading food testing methods. But, like all fledgling programs, IFSTL has also adapted with experience
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“It’s Not Our Job!”
Food Safety News
And it’s the mantra offered by USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) to justify NOT announcing or publicizing product recalls associated with the Canadian beef in which the agency found E. coli O157:H7. OK. Let me be fair. When FDA refuses
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Global Food Security Index: 224 million Indians undernourished!
India.Com Health
The Global Food Security Index (GFSI) has been developed by Economist Intelligence and is sponsored by Du Pont. The index provided a framework to assess food security across dimensions such as affordability, availability and safety and quality and aims
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Products Containing Sunland’s Peanut Butter Continue to Be Recalled
Food Safety News
Food Safety News has already reported on several of these individually. Beginning today, however, we will begin more periodic approach and report on these secondary recalls several at a time. We will continue this approach as long as it is useful to
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SN Special Report: Produce Industry
Supermarket News
And the industry is also ready to keep moving forward — with the 2012 Farm Bill, with the implementation of the Food Safety Modernization Act and with engaging consumers in new ways. Both produce retailers and suppliers are getting creative in how
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Blogs
Better Process Control School – Food Safety News
By [email protected] (Food Safety News)
According to FDA regulations, each processor of low-acid and acidified low-acid canned foods, including pet foods, must operate with a trained supervisor on hand at all times. Similar USDA/FSIS regulations and training requirements are in
Food Safety News
Web
Business Food safety red tape concerning – Weekly Times Now
VICTORIAN manufacturers have told a food safety inquiry they are being hit with inequitable auditing practices and costs.
www.weeklytimesnow.com.au/…/542893_business-news.html