US senator Kirsten Gillibrand has launched a new bill that would improve the recall process for meat and poultry products, giving the USDA mandatory recall authority over contaminated products. This comes after a new investigation ...
World Health Day 2015 focuses on food safety The World Health Organisation (WHO) has dedicated World Health Day 2015, which it is celebrating today, 7 April 2015, to highlighting the challenges and opportunities associated with food ...
Tags: food safety, Food production, Food
The US Department of Agriculture (USDA) announced on April 6 that two more flocks of commercial Minnesota turkey have been infected with the lethal avian flu, out of which one flock is already in an quarantine zone. According to the USDA, ...
Researchers at Ghent University and nanoelectronics R&D center Imec of Leuven, Belgium have demonstrated interaction between light and sound in a nanoscale area using a silicon photonic nanowire (R. Van Laer et al, Nature Photonics (2015); ...
Scientists from IBM Research and Mars established the “Consortium for Sequencing the Food Supply Chain,” a collaborative food safety platform that will leverage advances in genomics to better understand and improve food safety. ...
Tags: Food Safety, Agriculture
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), the U.S. Department of Justice and the state of Arkansas announced that the city of Fort Smith, Ark. will upgrade its sewer collection and treatment system over the next 12 years to reduce ...
Tags: Sewer System, Local Waterways, Agriculture
Following its Manufacturing Advanced Functional Materials (MAFuMa) call issued in February, the UK’s Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) has awarded £20m to 10 new research projects that aim to advance the ...
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The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has approved a $54 million plan submitted by Delaware for clean water projects, including efforts that will improve local water quality by eliminating failing septic systems, and reduce greenhouse ...
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Around 1,400 delegates and more than 130 exhibitors participated at the INDA hosted Filtration 2014 conference and exhibition, while 40 professionals attended the Nonwoven Filter Media training course, which it called ‘Pure ...
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Several Asian markets have decided to restrict the import of Canadian poultry following the detection of avian influenza on two farms in British Columbia. The Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) has confirmed the presence of H5 avian ...
Tags: H5 avian influenza, Agriculture
Ukraine has imposed a ban on all live birds and bird product imports from the UK, the Netherlands and Germany over bird flu outbreak. The ban will continue until the international watchdog ensures that these countries are free from bird ...
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Waterlogic - the European-based leader of manufacturing and global distribution of point-of-use purification systems - is proud to announce the launch of the Hybrid Home Water Purifier. This portable water purifier is the only product in ...
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For the European coatings industry, REACH, the seven-year-old European Union's legislation on the registration, evaluation and authorization of industrial chemicals, has been posing major difficulties. However the Biocidal Products ...
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DuPont Nutrition & Health has announced the opening of a new technical service center in Kiev, Ukraine, in a move to support dairy manufacturers in the Eastern European market. The new center, which is an addition to the company's global ...
Tags: DuPont, Dairy Firms
Introduced world's first home appliance modules and systems using UV LED in IFA With world-class UV LED technology, accelerated UV LED commercialization and expects to replace mercury lamp (UV lamp) With world class light visible LED, ...
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