The US Food and Drug Administration has issued a proposed rule to amend and update its regulation on registration of food facilities, in a bid to enhance the food facility registration system. Besides improvement, this new development ...
It was reported on 25 March 2015 that new Country of Origin Labelling laws will be delayed until at least August 2015 despite the Prime Minister’s announcement on 16 February 2015 that country of origin labelling proposals for reform ...
Tags: FSANZ, dietary supplements, Food
La Terra Fina has voluntarily recalled its organic spinach products and also expanded its recall due to the potential contamination of Listeria monocytogenes. According to US Food and Drug Administration, the recalled products include ...
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Taiwan has recalled food products illegally imported from five Japanese regions affected by the earthquake in 2011 and consequent nuclear disaster. According to Food and Drug Administration director General Chiang Yu-mei, country's health ...
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The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has concluded that six varieties of potatoes genetically engineered by J. R. Simplot are as safe and nutritious as their conventional counterparts. Simplot's Innate potato varieties including ...
China's drug watchdog is soliciting public opinion on tighter supervision rules for the production of cosmetics. According to the temporary rules on production and inspection released by the China Food and Drug Administration (CFDA) on ...
Arkansas-based poultry producer Tyson Foods Inc. has cut out gentamicin, a key human antibiotic, from its hatcheries. The US' largest chicken producer told Reuters that gentamicin and other similar antibiotics had been removed from its 35 ...
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As more global fast food chains rush to China for expansion, they also have to face the costly headaches in a fast-changing food supply environment plagued by repeated safety scandals. Fast-food giant McDonald's Corp recently announced ...
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Salamtex, a textile manufacturing company in Egypt, has created a groundbreaking anti-microbial textile named ‘Guard Textiles’ providing protection against the transmission of infection in health care facilities, according to ...
Tags: Anti-Microbial Fabric, textile
US President Barack Obama has proposed the establishment of a single food safety agency that will consolidate the responsibilities of the Food and Drug Administration, Food Safety Inspection Service, and other related agencies. Proposed ...
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Bosch Packaging Technology has expanded its portfolio for the serialisation of pharmaceutical packaging to help drug manufacturers comply with potential legislation changes about to be introduced by governments round the globe in the fight ...
Zenobia Company in the US is recalling certain packages of MY Spice Sage Cumin Ground as they may contain peanut protein which is not mentioned on the label. The products associated with the recall include 1 oz, 4 oz, 4.9 oz, 16 oz ...
Tags: plastic bags, peanut protein, Agriculture
US federal officials have found a link between strains of Listeria bacteria found in a California apple processing plant and the ones responsible for an outbreak that took lives of seven people and left several people sick in 2014. ...
Food processing giant OSI Group has termed accusations made by Shanghai Municipal Food and Drug Administration (FDA) as ‘misleading’, stating that its use does not meet the ‘questionable products’ definition ...
Tags: past-due meat products, Drug Administration, Agriculture
Full Tilt Ice Cream in the US is voluntarily recalling all dairy based ice cream flavours as they may have been contaminated with Listeria monocytogenes, according to the US Food and Drug Administration. The products associated with ...
Tags: Ice Creams, Agriculture