Leading glass container manufacturer, Piramal Glass Ceylon PLC (PGC) has recently won its fourth consecutive Gold award in the Large Industry segment in the Ceramic sector at the recently concluded NCE awards ceremony. In addition to this, ...
The Ministry for Primary Industries (MPI) of New Zealand has entered into Food Safety Cooperation Agreement with the China Food and Drug Administration (CFDA) to enhance food safety standards and food quality. The agreement reflecting ...
Tags: China, Ink Food Safety
Piramal Glass Ceylon is steadily moving towards realizing its vision of being the most preferred specialty glass packaging solutions provider in Asia by meeting customer expectation through innovative designs and manufacturing, said Sanjay ...
Tags: Construction, Decoration
US agribusiness company Cargill is set to upgrade its poultry processing facility in Saraburi, Thailand with an investment of THB300m ($10m). The project, which is expected to be completed by July 2014, includes upgrading plant's food ...
Rigid plastic packaging producer Amcor Rigid Plastics has announced that all manufacturing facilities have earned or will earn certification by the Global Food Safety Initiative (GFSI), a global retailer-driven program that seeks continuous ...
The XL Foods' nationwide recall of beef products in 2012 over E.coli contamination was preventable and was caused due to lax approach towards food safety, according to an independent review initiated by the Canadian government. In 2012, ...
Tags: Agriculture, Food
The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has announced that it is requesting a budget of $4.7bn in 2014, which includes about $295.8m to strengthen food safety. The agency noted that the user fees would fund 94% of the proposed budget ...
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The U.S. Food and Drug Administration announced on January 28 in the Federal Register a reorganization for the Foods and Veterinary Medicine (FVM) program that was implemented on October 1, 2012. Under the reorganization, the Office of ...
Tags: Foods, Food Safety, Packaging
New Zealand has signed an arrangement with the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA), under which each country will recognize the other's food safety system as providing a comparable degree of food safety assurance. The Food Safety ...
Tags: food safety system, comparable degree, food safety assurance
Hazard analysis and critical control points, or HACCP, is a systematic preventive approach to food safety and pharmaceutical safety that identifies physical, allergenic, chemical, and biological hazards in production processes that can ...
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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
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 Senate of Canada has adopted the Safe Food for Canadians Act (S-11) Act, which will provide the Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) more tools and resources to help keep Canadian food safe. The new act will provide CFIA with some ...
Tags: safe food, enhanced ability for inspectors, food commodities
Canadians are confident in the country's food safety system,according to results from a recent study commissioned by the Canadian Food Inspection Agency(CFIA). According to the study,93%of Canadians surveyed expressed a degree of ...
Tags: CFIA, food safety system, food recalls
Sensient Technologies Brazil,a subsidiary of Sensient Colors,has announced that it has received achieved the following food safety certifications-FSSC 22000:2010(Food Safety System Certification)and ISO 22000:2005(Food Safety Management ...
Tags: food safety certifications, safety, quality, assessment