The New Zealand parliament agreed the merger of the country's two
major dairy processing companies and their export wing into a
$NZ11bn cooperative renamed Fonterra Cooperative Dairies.
The Japanese government made a huge blunder in ignoring a European
Union report warning of a mad cow disease outbreak in Japan, the
Japanese Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries minister admitted.
High levels of aflatoxins, chemicals that have the potential to
cause cancer in humans, have been found in a batch of "Kashmira
Basar mixed spices for Asian curries."
The OIE, Foot and Mouth Diseases (FMD) and Other Epizootics
Commission meeting on September 18-19 in Paris, replace France,
Ireland and the Netherlands in the list of FMD-free countries.
The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has amended the food
additive regulations to provide for the safe use of anti-microbial
agent on poultry carcasses, parts and organs.
Spherix Incorporated, the technology innovation firm. reports on
discussions with FDA officials concerning tagatose, the company's
new low-calorie sweetener.
The UK Food Standards Agency (FSA) announced on Monday stricter
measures, in the form of a seven point plan, to tighten the laws
preventing unfit poultry meat entering the human food chain.
The ANZFSC agreed to phase out ethylene oxide and to permit the
limited use of food irradiation as a safer alternative for herbs,
spices, and herbal teas.
On September 12, Japan's farm ministry began checking feed plants
and asked local authorities for a nationwide inspection in an
attempt to ease public concern over Asia's first suspected case of
"mad cow" disease.
Marine-based nutraceuticals company Ocean Nutrition Canada Ltd.
(ONC) announced this week that it had achieved GRAS (generally
recognised as safe) status for its omega-3 concentrated 30:20 EE
complex derived from fish oil.
The Ecologist group Greenpeace condemned the granting of a European
patent for a genetic tweak that can make salmon grow eight times
larger than normal.
Cerestar, the global manufacturer of starch and derivative, has
been given approval to market its all-natural, no-calorie bulk
sweetener C*Eridex in Russia, after receiving certification from
the Russian Ministry of Public Health.
Consumer and interest groups criticised the Thai Food and Drug
Administration's draft regulations on the labelling of food
products containing genetically modified organisms for benefiting
manufacturers over consumers.
The Italian Health Ministry announced on September 4 that Italy has
introduced measures to check for the presence of carcinogenic
substances in low-grade olive oil.
Sargento Foods Inc. of Plymouth said on Friday that the U.S. Food
and Drug Administration(FDA) has informed the company that it made
an error in the laboratory finding that led to Sargento issuing a
voluntary cheese recall on July...
Taiwan on Thursday was cited as reporting its first-ever confirmed
case of an infection with the virulent O-157 strain of E. coli
bacteria that claimed the lives of several children in western
Japan during a 1996 epidemic.
The Food Safety Authority of Ireland (FSAI) announced last week
that all Irish food businesses who are served Closure Orders,
Prohibition Orders, and Improvement Orders will now be listed on
the FSAI's website.
The UK Food Standards Agency (FSA) is advising consumers to avoid
batches of certain specific helva products following tests that
have found them to be contaminated with the food bug salmonella.
Ukraine's food industry has experienced double-digit growth in the
past couple of years, but food quality, safety and controls are
still not close to international standards.
The use of copper surfaces for food preparation in factories,
shops, hospitals, restaurants and the home could help reduce the
risk of infection by potentially fatal food bugs.
Plain language is the key to future food allergen labelling. This
was the resounding message from American food manufacturers
speaking at the Food and Drug Administration meeting this week.
China's State Bureau of Quality Supervision, Inspection and
Quarantine (SBQSIQ) has ordered all of the country's inspection and
quarantine agencies to strengthen the inspection of the level of
bleach residue in imported...
The WTO ruled in favour of the European Union in a dispute with the
United States over a long-running legal battle between alcoholic
beverage giants Bacardi and Pernod Ricard.
The Food Safety and Inspection Service issued a final rule that
will require manufacturers to label the source of natural sausage
casings if the casings are derived from a different type of meat or
poultry than the meat or poultry...
ConAgra Foods Inc., the second-biggest U.S. food company, is to sue
French company, Groupe Danone SA's Dannon to block it from using
the name "Snack Pack" for its yoghurt containers.
American food manufacturers endorsed a measure pending in Congress
to make it illegal to slip leaflets into food packaging without the
manufacturer's consent, bolstering a law designed to prevent
tampering with consumer products.
