Taiwan-based Kee Fresh and Safe Foodtech has unveiled a food processing factory that consists of high pressure processing (HPP) machinery in Pingtung county of southern Taiwan. The company has invested about NT$495m ($17m) for the ...
Tags: food processing, Foodtech, food processing plant, food produced
Taylor Farms Retail is recalling 110 cases of Taylor Farms Hearts of Romaine in the US, as the products may be contaminated with Listeria monocytogenes. The recall has been initiated after a single random finished package test by the Food ...
US retailer Kroger will stop selling fresh sprouts today (22 October) over concerns that the vegetable represents a food safety risk. According to Payton Pruett, Kroger's vice president of food safety, the decision was based on the ...
Tags: Kroger, fresh sprouts, vegetable, food industry
Meca Foods, a food company based in Chicago, US, is recalling 2,970 pounds of tamales, as they were produced at a facility that was not inspected by state officials. The recall, in which nearly 13,500 items are being withdrawn from the ...
Health Canada, the department responsible for safeguarding public health in Canada, has introduced new regulations, updating its 50-year-old rules in order to accelerate the authorization of food additives and boost safety. Health Canada ...
Belfonte Ice Cream and Dairy Foods has recalled peanut butter containing ice cream in the US.The recall was initiated after the company's peanut butter supplier-Sunland,informed that the products received may be contaminated with ...
Tags: peanut butter, ice cream, Salmonella
Dole Food,a US-based producer of fruit and fresh vegetables,has issued a multi-state recall of its ready-to-eat salad mix in the US,as the product may be contaminated with Listeria monocytogenes. The voluntary recall was initiated after a ...
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 ...
Tags: food safety standard, food caterers, food-borne diseases
The African Union (AU) is planning to establish food safety authority along with a Rapid Alert System for Food and Feed (RASFF), in order to strengthen trade and prevent food-borne diseases. AU's Inter-African Bureau for Animal Resources ...
Tags: food safety authority, food-borne diseases, rural areas
American retailer Kroger has decided that it will no longer sell sprouts due to its potential food safety risk and to protect the consumers from food-borne illnesses. The supply of sprouts into distribution centers and stores will be ...
Tags: sprouts, safety risk, food-borne illnesses
Missa Bay,a wholly owned subsidiary of Ready Pac Foods,is voluntarily recalling 293,488 cases and 296,224 individually distributed units of fruit,vegetable,and sandwich products containing apples as the products may be contaminated with ...
Xiao Trading has recalled'Szechuan Hot Bean Curd Preserve'in Melbourne,Victoria,Australia,due to microbial contamination(Bacillus Cereus),according to Food Standards Australia New Zealand(FSANZ). This product was sold at Asian grocery ...
Sutimco International,a US-based business development enterprise,is in talks to acquire a technology which limits the risks of food borne outbreaks from contaminated fresh produce.The technology has been developed by the University of ...
Tags: the University of California, food borne, Salmonella, E.Coli
US-based Micro Imaging Technology(MIT)is set to unveil the first commercial unit of its Rapid Microbial Identification System,the MIT 1000,which is capable of detecting pathogenic bacteria in food. The MIT 1000 is a ...
Tags: MIT, Microbial Identification System, pathogenic bacteria, IAFP
ScoringAg, a division of ScoringSystem, has introduced a new food safety integrated Hydro-Cooler to the produce industry, which is designed to prevent the spread of foodborne pathogens in the food chain. According to the company, the ...