DuPont Nutrition & Health has announced that a new assay for detecting foodborne Salmonella with the DuPont BAX system Institute.has been certified as Performance Tested method by the AOAC Research This assay uses powerful polymerase ...
Perfect Pasta, an establishment based in Illinois, US, is recalling approximately 315 pounds of ready-to-eat roast beef products due to possible contamination with Listeria monocytogenes, according to the US Department of ...
Nestle has recalled two beef ready meals on sale in Spain and Italy after tests returned positive for horse DNA. The company is recalling its Buitoni beef ravioli and beef tortellini products on sale in the two markets because tests ...
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Nestlé has started recruiting for the 400 jobs created by the pound 110M expansion of its coffee manufacturing facility in Tutbury, Derbyshire. UK sales of Nescafé Dolce Gusto have increased by 40% The pound 110M expansion ...
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Morrisons’ bid to profit from the horse meat scandal will provide a ‘short-term bounce’ rather than a long-term turnaround, say City analysts. Morrisons' gain from the horse meat scandal is likely to be short-term: City ...
Swiss food company Nestlé is withdrawing beef pasta meals from shelves in Italy and Spain after tests found that the products contained traces of horse DNA. The company noted that this decision has been made after its tests found ...
US meat giant Tyson Foods has acquired local tortilla, salty snack and pretzel maker Don Julio Foods. The deal expands Tyson's presence in the retail channel. Tyson is the second-largest tortilla maker in the US, although the majority of ...
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Perfect Pasta, an Illinois-based firm, 315 pouis recalling nds of ready-to-eat roast beef products due to possible Listeria monocytogenes contamination, according to the US Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection ...
The UK Food Standards Agency (FSA) has announced that about 29 beef samples were found to be positive for the horsemeat, out of the 2501 beef samples that were tested in response to the ongoing horsemeat contamination scandal. The agency ...
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Paterson made his comments after an EU crisis meeting in Brussels, which took place yesterday (13 February). In a statement on the horse meat scandal, Paterson said: “Because of the urgency with which we have to deal what is clearly ...
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Three men have been arrested in the UK on suspicion of offences under the Fraud Act by police investigating allegations horsemeat was mislabelled as beef. Dyfed-Powys Police in Wales yesterday (14 February) made arrests at two plants that ...
Police have raided three more premises in the UK as the investigation into the horsemeat contamination continues. The UK Food Standards Agency said it joined police and local authority officials to swoop on a site in Hull and two in ...
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Results from the first set of UK tests on beef products for horsemeat have in the main cleared the country's retailers. Products from Tesco, Sainsbury's, Morrisons, The Co-operative Group and Iceland Foods tested negative for traces of ...
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Asda has recalled fresh sauce manufactured by private-label giant Greencore after finding horse DNA in the line - the first product outside the frozen aisle to become embroiled in the contamination scandal. Greencore has confirmed it ...
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The European Commission has called on the EU's 27 members states to test for horse DNA in beef products. Tonio Borg, Commissioner for Health and Consumer Policy, has set out plans for tests to be carried out to see if food containing beef ...
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