Nearly 40 tons of pork derived from infected and dead pigs has been sold in Fujian province, China, over a period of three months, in a latest food safety incident to hit the country. Two people have been detained for selling pork which ...
Tags: Diseased Pork, illegal trade
Chinese demand of soybean used in feeding poultry and livestock will continue to decline because of the breakout of bird flu. China takes 60% in global soybean trading. Influenced by concerns of food safety and large-stock, the amount of ...
Ireland has announced plans to set up a new centralized equine database, in response to the Europe-wide horsemeat scandal. The information on the database will be used by the agriculture department's veterinary staff to supplement current ...
Tags: Centralized Equine Database, Food
Bunge North America has opened its new packaging facility in Decatur, Alabama, in a bid to improve its manufacturing processes to better serve customers in the southeastern US. Bunge Oils southeast region director of operations Beau ...
Tags: Bunge, Packaging Facility
Real Pasta is recalling approximately 25,000 pounds of assorted pasta products in the US as they were processed without the benefit of inspection, according to the US Department of Agriculture's Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS). ...
Tags: Real Pasta, Pasta Products
Posted by Lisa McTigue Pierce, Executive Editor -- Packaging Digest, 4/29/2013 9:52:04 AM By Larry Dworkin, director, government relations, PAC-The Packaging Assn. EDITOR'S NOTE: Packaging Digest's recent webcast "Food Safety & ...
Tags: Packaging Materials, Packaging
Global adhesives manufacturer, Henkel is set to introduce its latest adhesive developments for packaging at the Efficient Consumer Response (ECR) Europe Conference & Marketplace taking place on 14 and 15 May in Brussels. The company's ...
Tags: Henkel, Adhesive Developments
A decades-long push to require the labeling of foods containing genetically modified ingredients in the United States received a significant boost Wednesday [Apr. 24, 2013], when bipartisan bills on the issue were simultaneously proposed ...
The Centre for Food Safety (CFS) of the Food and Environmental Hygiene Department has issued a ban on import of poultry and poultry products from Lower Saxony, Germany over fears of an outbreak of low-pathogenic H5N1 avian influenza. The ...
Tags: Bans Poultry Imports, Food
The Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) has announced that the organic producers in the country will have increased opportunities to export their products, while people in the country will have more organic food choices to purchase, ...
Tags: Agriculture, Food
The UK Food Standards Agency (FSA) has announced that it would launch a review into its handling of the horsemeat scandal. The food safety watchdog announced this at a board meeting in Cardiff. The independent investigation will be led by ...
Tags: Horsemeat Scandal, Food
SafetyChain Software has announced that Initiative Foods, a US-based provider of organic and conventional baby foods for own brand food retailers, has selected SafetyChain for Food to implement its food safety and quality assurance (FSQA) ...
The European Commission has asked European Medicines Agency (EMA) to provide advice on the impact of antibiotic use in animals on public health and animal health. The request was made by the Commission as a part of it's 'Action Plan ...
Tags: Antibiotics in Animals, Food
Posted by Jack Mans, Plant Operations Editor -- Packaging Digest, 4/16/2013 4:06:47 PM The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has announced that it is extending the deadline for comments on a 300-page traceability report created by the ...
Tags: FDA, IFT Traceability, Packaging
Tests of beef products conducted across Europe showed that almost 5% of them were tainted with horse meat, and this percentage was higher in some countries such as France and Greece. In February, the European Union, Switzerland and Norway ...
Tags: Beef Products, Horse Meat