US-based 3M Food Safety has introduced software enhancements to its 3M Clean-Trace Hygiene Monitoring System, a family of products that helps food and beverage processors easily track and monitor cleaning and sanitation within their ...
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Researchers at University of California, Santa Barbara, have devised methods to detect and discriminate more harmful forms of Salmonella bacteria, a development which may help prevent food poisoning outbreaks. According to researchers, ...
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TransAct Technologies has launched a new line of Ithaca-branded terminals and printers for food safety and food preparation markets and point of sale markets. The new products include Ithaca 9000, Ithaca 9700 and Ithaca 9800. According ...
The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has suspended the operations of Sunland, a producer of nuts, and nut and seed spreads, over food safety concerns. Sunland which operates a processing facility in New Mexico, has been linked to an ...
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The packaging giant has launched its biannual sustainability update entitled Mission Possible (26 July). Tetra Pak has set itself ambitious targets to double the global recycling rate of its cartons from 20% in 2010 to 40% by 2020. ...
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The Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) has announced plans to do away with existing restrictions that limit the containers size for certain foods and provide no food safety benefit. According to CFIA, the proposed changes are ...
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SYSPRO, which offers enterprise resource planning (ERP) software for on-premise and cloud-based utilization, has developed SYSPRO ERP, which enables food manufacturers and distributors to fully comply with the newest rules recently issued ...
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Researchers from the University of Almeria, Spain, have developed a new method which helps in finding the presence of most minute residues of drugs, which are actually given to livestock, in some infant foods. The researchers detected ...
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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 ...
France has said that it will not challenge Monsanto’s license to market genetically modified corn in the European Union (EU) after the country’s food safety agency concluded that a study associating the corn to cancers was ...
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The Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) is planning to eliminate current restrictions that limit the size of containers for certain foods in order to enhance consumer choice. The current restrictions on the size of containers for ...
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Showa Denko K.K. (SDK) has decided to provide Kawauchi Village, Fukushima Prefecture, with a new cultivation method for LED-based plant growth facilities for free. The village, headed by Mr. Yuko Endo, is now building an LED-based plant ...
DeltaTrak, a US-based provider of cold chain management, environmental monitoring and food safety solutions, has announced the opening of a new affiliate company in Guadalajara, Mexico. The new affiliate, known as DeltaTrak Mexico, will ...
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The Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) has suspended the licence of Capital Packers' facility in Edmonton, Alberta, effective 22 November 2012. This move comes after CFIA identified that adequate controls for food safety are not being ...
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US-based Global Culinary Investments is recalling 1,331 pounds of chicken empanadas, as they contain monosodium glutamate which is not mentioned on the label of the packaging. The recall has been initiated when the company discovered an ...
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