Foodborne disease outbreaks and deaths have increased but illnesses and hospitalizations decreased from the year before, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
VUV Analytics will provide its VGA-100 Vacuum Ultraviolet (VUV) detector to help a researcher determine organic contaminants in fish as they transfer through the food chain.
A state-run laboratory will pay a fine of $27,000 and spend $73,000 on equipment to settle claims that it violated state and federal hazardous waste laws at its facility in Augusta.
The risk assessment of food producers is getting more focussed on where in the supply chain there could be shortfalls and which techniques could be used to ensure final product safety, according to PerkinElmer.
Visitors to the Olympics and Paralympics Summer Games in Rio, Brazil will be most at risk of gastrointestinal illness and vector-borne infections, according to the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC).
The food and beverage industry has changed dramatically in recent years, according to Merck, with some ‘serious hurdles’ now in place in terms of regulation and safety.
Agilent Technologies has introduced InfinityLab - a product family of liquid chromatography instruments, columns and supplies – at Analytica 2016 in Munich.
FoodQualityNews hit the show floor of Analytica last week to bring you all the news and views relevant to food safety and quality control. Below are some of the product launches.
Analytica 2016 has become more international since the last edition two years ago, according to the project director of Analytica Munich and the Analytica shows in Asia.
Thermo Fisher Scientific has broadened the capabilities of a specialist food safety lab to increase flexibility and response times to customers in more application areas.
The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has published draft guidance to assist qualified facilities to comply with a Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA) rule.
Clear Labs has found rat and human DNA, substitution and pathogens in its latest round of testing with vegetable burger products particularly problematic.
Scienion and the University of California San Diego have developed a tool that allows scientists to see, at the scale of five billionths of a meter, 'nanoscale' mixing processes in liquids for the first time.
A recall round-up sees four separate incidents, three due to possible foreign material contamination, with Unilever, Blue Bell Ice Cream, Pilgrim’s Pride Corp and Foster Farms involved.
Communication in the supply chain is ‘the basics’ when dealing with potential allergens, according to the European external quality manager at General Mills.
Best practice must be to ensure test pieces are placed in the centre of the coil where it is least sensitive to foreign bodies when doing validation for freefall metal detectors, according to Sartorius.
Xgenex has joined with Food Safety Resources to commercialize software to help the produce industry with the relevant rules within the Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA).
The largest Salmonella outbreak in Washington in recent history highlighted the need for prevention strategies and food handling education, according to researchers.
The Grocery Manufacturers Association (GMA) and Battelle have launched a software tool to analyze economically motivated adulteration (EMA) vulnerabilities in the manufacturing process.
The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has extended by 60 days the comment period on the risk of foodborne illness associated with eating produce from fields were raw manure is used as a fertilizer.
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Increasing speed and decreasing costs of genome sequencing technology is having a ‘transformative effect’ on foodborne disease outbreak investigation, according to the UK Food Standards Agency’s chief scientific adviser.
