The UK Food Standards Agency (FSA) has unveiled a new strategy to reduce the number of campylobacter cases in the country. Campylobacter, which is the most common cause of food poisoning in the UK, is considered to be responsible for ...
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The process of purchasing a gas grill is overwhelming. With stainless steel this and infrared that, the road towards your perfect gas grill has taken a detour, wrong way, u-turn and even went down a one way street- and you have not even ...
China blocked 42 tons of Fonterra's whole milk powder from entering the country in May after checks at the border found excess levels of nitrites and it was sent back to New Zealand, the scandal-hit dairy giant confirmed Thursday. ...
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Abbott Vietnam has expanded the recall of its Similac GainPlus Eye-Q products to include another 4,387 cans of infant formula over concerns of whey concentrate contamination with Clostridium botulinum. The products implicated in the ...
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Russia, Kazakhstan and Belarus have announced ban on the import and sale of New Zealand-based Fonterra's products following a contamination scare. Earlier this month, Fonterra announced that the batches of whey protein, which is used for ...
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The Institute of Food Research (IFR) has conducted a research for the UK Food Standards Agency (FSA) to establish if the cooking technique sous vide is safe. Sous vide uses lower temperatures to improve food quality. This technique could ...
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The New Zealand government will conduct a top level inquiry into how Fonterra’s whey product, which was potentially contaminated with botulism causing bacteria, was distributed globally. Prime Minister John Key said that Fonterra's ...
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China, Vietnam and Russia have imposed an import ban on milk powder and whey protein from the New Zealand-based Fonterra after the dairy co-operative warned that a batch of whey powder produced in 2012 may be contaminated with bacteria that ...
This week it has been revealed the 2013 targets set by the Food Standards Agency (FSA) to reduce campylobacter levels in chicken have not been hit. The FSA targets aimed to decrease the number of contaminated birds in the UK from 27% to 19% ...
Several shellfish harvesting sites in Scotland have been closed following the detection of unusually high levels of toxins, according to the UK Food Standards Agency (FSA). Shellfish toxins are produced by naturally occurring marine ...
Last fall I flew halfway across the country to go grocery shopping with Everly Macario. We set out from her second-story apartment in Hyde Park near the University of Chicago and walked to the supermarket to buy a couple of?rib?steaks?that ...
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Researchers at the Institute of Food Research on the Norwich Research Park have uncovered how the food-borne bacterial pathogen Campylobacter jejuni can change its behaviour according to the need for food or for finding a location suitable ...
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Preparing food on surfaces that contain some amount of the element copper, known as copper alloys can help in lowering the number of food poisoning cases due to Salmonella and possibly other bacteria, according to a new study conducted by ...
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The Food Standards Agency(FSA)has published the results of a survey which was carried out in the UK to evaluate the public opinion on food safety issues. The survey results showed that the main food safety issues that people were ...
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The Beijing Health Inspection Institute has announced that a new food safety standard will be enforced for food caterers from June 2013. The standard will be applicable for restaurants,bakeries,shops selling snacks,drinks and ...
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