US-based industrial and food applications equipment firm Avure would open a new facility for producing 50 HPP systems annually, close to its headquarters at Franklin, Tennessee by the end of the year. According to the firm, it is ...
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Lao Chareune Foods,an establishment based in Texas,US,is recalling approximately 8,200 pounds of various beef and pork products as they were produced without the benefit of federal inspection,besides being misbranded,according to the US ...
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The Bangladesh government has been asked the high court to impose a ban on the import of food treated with formalin and other poisonous chemicals. The court also asked the government to supply testing kits to all the sea and land ports ...
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The UK Food Standards Agency(FSA)is advising people that eating lead-shot game on a frequent basis can expose them to potentially harmful levels of lead.The FSA has advised frequent consumers of lead-shot game to eat less of this type of ...
The US Department of Agriculture's Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) has issued a health alert over Aliya's Foods' frozen butter chicken and rice products that were imported from Canada. The agency noted that the products may be ...
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US-based food company Tyson Foods is recalling approximately 67,269 pounds of packages labeled as Honey BBQ Flavored Boneless Chicken Wyngz because of misbranding and undeclared allergens,according to the US Department of Agriculture's Food ...
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An oats sample imported from Japan was found to contain low level of radioactivity, according to a spokesman for the Hong Kong's Centre for Food Safety (CFS) of the Food and Environmental Hygiene Department. The test result showed that a ...
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Canada is planning to implement a law which makes the labeling of mechanically tenderized beef mandatory,as a part of its effort to ensure food safety. This move comes after mechanically tenderized beef products from XL Foods were linked ...
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The European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) said the recycling processes are not unsafe as long as the proportion of rPET from non-food consumer applications does not exceed 5% and are operated under well-defined conditions. This was ...
A study linking a type of genetically modified corn developed by Monsanto to health risks in rats lacked sufficient scientific quality in order to arrive at any conclusions with regard to the safety of such crops, said European Food Safety ...
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Piccadilly Fine Foods,an establishment based in Santa Clara,California,is recalling approximately 79 pounds of chicken and yam pie products as they may include a curry paste containing shrimp,a known allergen which is not declared on the ...
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The European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) has delayed the release of a re-evaluation of the sweetener aspartame, in order to facilitate additional review of new data. While the release was scheduled for September 2012, the EFSA had asked ...
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Mangoes imported from Mexico have been linked to a cross-border Salmonella outbreak, which may have led to more than 100 illnesses across US and Canada. California, Washington and Canada have reported illnesses associated with the same ...
French Supermarket retailer Carrefour has invested CNY5m ($0.79m) to build a new food safety testing center in Shanghai, China. The decision was taken in response to the Chinese government's call for ensuring food safety, reported ...
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US-based 3M Food Safety has announced that its Listeria detection system, 3M Tecra Listeria Visual Immunoassay (VIA), has received validation from the AOAC Research Institute's Performance Tested Methods Program (AOAC-PTM). 3M noted that ...
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