News & Analysis on Food & Beverage Development & Technology
The Japanese government is to temporarily place a total ban on the distribution of imported and domestically produced meat and bone meal (MBM), an animal feed suspected of causing mad cow disease, government sources said yesterday.
The UK Food Standards Agency has acted to ensure that certain Greek olive-pomace oil products with unacceptably high levels of potentially cancer-causing chemicals have been removed from sale.
Exporters to the U.S. market should pay particular attention to instant food products, such as frozen dishes that can be cooked by microwave, according to the Thai Farmers Research Center (TFRC), The Nation reports this week.