The UK's Food Standards Agency has revoked the licences of slaughtermen at High Peak Meat Exports, after a video depicting animal abuse was posted on YouTube. Food officials said the footage, filmed by Hillside Animal Sanctuary, provided ...
The ABP Food Group claims to have found the source of the horse meat in the burgers produced at its Silvercrest Foods facility in Ireland and has halted production at the site in County Monaghan. Tesco published full-page apologies to its ...
Tags: ABP Food Group, horse meat, burgers, Silvercrest Foods facility
The Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) plans to create 16 Centres of Expertise across Canada to provide industry and CFIA inspectors with better, more consistent access to information and advice. This initiative was announced by ...
Tags: Food Inspection Agency, CFIA, grains
Eating a horse is forbidden territory for Americans.You can tuck into a plate of horseflesh in Tokyo,Paris and Moscow,but it usually won't be found on the menu in Dallas or Little Rock. Maybe it's a recognition of horses as companions,or ...
Tags: horse, slaughter, backdoor ban, animal rights
Law firm Slaughter&May has selected information management provider Recommind's knowledge management search solution to replace its"flaky"Hummingbird document and knowledge management platform. Further reading Case study:SaaS-based ...
Tags: Slaughter, information, management
The US government has again cut its forecast for corn yields as the impact of the worst drought in the country for 50 years becomes clearer. Washington said the US corn yield is set to be the lowest since 1995-96, sending futures to a ...
Tags: US government, corn yields, drought, food industry
The Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) has allowed XL Foods to re-open the facility at the centre of an e. coli scare after an assessment of its food safety controls. XL Foods has had its suspension lifted by CFIA and is now licensed ...
Tags: Canadian Food Inspection Agency, e.coli, licensed to operate
Swiss meat processing company Bell Group said it is "holding up well", despite booking a drop in first-half profits today (9 August). The company said it faced a "difficult" trading environment in the six-month period as net profit ...
Tags: Bell Group, meat processing company, meat, meat processing
The US Department of Agriculture's Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) is set to implement new testing methods to detect illegal drug residues in meat, poultry, and egg products, as a part of its effort to improve food safety and ...
Linpac Packaging has announced that it has won a major contract to supply one of Poland's well-known meat processing companies with more than 100m polystyrene trays a year, The firm's site in Bukowice, Poland will supply trays to Pini ...
Tags: Linpac Packaging, meat processing, polystyrene trays, new business
Mexico has activated a national animal health emergency plan after an outbreak of bird flu affected nearly 1.7 million poultry. Under the plan, strict controls have been placed on the transport of poultry, poultry products and other ...
Tags: a national animal health emergency plan, outbreak of bird flu
US packaged foods firm ConAgra is subject to a lawsuit which claims that hot dogs and other products sold under the company's Hebrew National brand are not kosher. The lawsuit was filed by Minneapolis-based law firm Blackwell Burke on ...
Tags: packaged foods firm, hot dogs, food preparation process
XL Foods' plant in Alberta, Canada, which was at the center of a national beef recall, has resumed operations under its new owner - JBS USA. The Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) had suspended the license of the plant on 27 September ...
Tags: beef processing operations, national beef recall, contaminated products
Canada is proposing new regulations which would make traceability mandatory for pigs,as a part of its effort to strengthen the country's livestock sector. According to the Canadian Food Inspection Agency(CFIA),an enhanced traceability ...
Tags: regulations, livestock, CFIA, pigs
The Canadian Food Inspection Agency(CFIA)is set to be audited by the US Department of Agriculture(USDA),for the first time since 2009. As a part of the audit,which will be conducted later this month,a team of US officials will evaluate ...