British Safety Council has introduced new food safety qualifications for food manufacturers, caterers and retailers to ensure that they maintain food standards. The new regulated food safety qualifications are brought into effect to ...
Tags: food safety, catering businesses
In the wake of several foodborne illness outbreaks in the US, the country's watchdog has finalized two rules that requires firms to identify food safety risks and detail measures to prevent or minimize such risks from occuring. ...
Tags: Food Safety Risks, US Watchdog
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
Salaison Levesque Inc. is a ready-to-eat meat processing establishment located in Montreal, Quebec. CFIA said that adequate controls for food safety related to pre-operational inspections of sanitation procedures were not being reliably ...
Improving alfalfa yields one drip at a time Irrigation water blocked by red tape Managing food safety risks on the orchard floor The Natural Resources Defense Council claims that much of last year's record Federal Crop Insurance Program ...
Tags: Agriculture, Food
Attaboys aplenty to California, Arizona cotton industry Too many straws have emptied the bucket Managing food safety risks on the orchard floor If there was one ray of sunshine from a recent regulatory convention I attended it was that ...
Tags: Agriculture, Food
The Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) has announced that it has suspended operations at IMO Foods - a federally registered fish cannery based in Yarmouth, Nova Scotia, over food safety concerns. The agency noted that adequate ...
Tags: IMO Foods, Safety Concerns
The Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) has announced that the Standing Committee on Agriculture and Agri-Food has completed its review of the Safe Food for Canadians Act and has now referred it back to the House of Commons for Report ...
Tags: CFIA, food safety, food safety system, Canada
The Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) has suspended the licence of Capital Packers' facility in Edmonton, Alberta, effective 22 November 2012. This move comes after CFIA identified that adequate controls for food safety are not being ...
Tags: CFIA, suspended, licence, Capital Packers, Listeria monocytogenes
Scientific testing by an independent laboratory has proven that a specialized laundering process, offered by UniFirst Corporation and used to disinfect and protect food industry garments, destroys pathogens known to cause nearly 90 million ...
Tags: garment, food industry garments, uniforms
The Canadian government is boosting food-safety procedures and practices as a part its efforts to support Chicken Farmers of Canada(CFC)–a national organization representing 2,700 farmers. Member of Parliament James Bezan said the ...
Tags: CFC, food-safety, farmers
About three-quarters of people in the UK are willing to take food safety risks while eating out,which puts them at increased risk of food poisoning,especially during the upcoming London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games,according to a new ...
Tags: FSA, food safety risks, food poisoning