The Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) has announced that it has suspended operations at IMO Foods - a federally registered fish cannery based in Yarmouth, Nova Scotia, over food safety concerns. The agency noted that adequate ...
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The U.S. Department of Agriculture's (USDA) Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) is proposing new requirements for labeling beef products that have been mechanically tenderized, including adding new cooking instructions, so that ...
A testing conducted to assess the use of sulphur dioxide in meat revealed that all 140 fresh meat samples passed the test, according to Hong Kong's Center for Food Safety (CFS) of the Food and Environmental Hygiene Department (FEHD). The ...
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The US Department of Agriculture's (USDA) Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) has introduced new labeling for beef products that have been mechanically tenderized, in order to ensure food safety. The new rule also requires the ...
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The XL Foods' nationwide recall of beef products in 2012 over E.coli contamination was preventable and was caused due to lax approach towards food safety, according to an independent review initiated by the Canadian government. In 2012, ...
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WAYNE, Pa., June 6, 2013 -- Deacom, Inc., producer of an ERP system for process manufacturers announced today that the DEACOM solution has been featured in the Technology Evaluation Centers (TEC) ERP for Process Manufacturing Buyer's Guide. ...
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The USDA Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) has published an updated guidance for Hazard Analysis Critical Control Point (HACCP) Systems Validation. The guidance document articulates how industry can meet FSIS expectations regarding ...
US agribusiness firm Cargill has opened a $40m chicken processing facility at its complex in Efremov, Russia, marking the company's first primary chicken processing operations in Russia. The facility will primarily supply McDonald's ...
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Zhejiang DIAN Diagnostics Co., Ltd. (SZSE: 300244) announced yesterday that it has signed an agreement on strategic cooperation with a South Korea's foundational juridical person and medical science institute SCL. Both sides plan to ...
US-based c Food Safety has achieved NF Validation certification cfor E.coli O157 including H7. The Molecular Detection Assay for E.coli O157 is capable of detecting the bacteria in raw beef, fruit, vegetable and dairy products. The ...
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Please send a thank you note to Andrew Kimbrell, executive director, The Center for Food Safety, 660 Pennsylvania Ave. SE #302, Washington, D.C. 20003. Thank him for the opportunity to spend far more money than necessary to control weeds ...
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The global market for advanced packaging solutions that includes active, controlled, intelligent packaging, and advanced packaging components was at $31.4 billion in 2011, according to a report from BCC Research entitled Active, Controlled, ...
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GS1 US has introduced two new readiness programs to help companies in the food industry implement and improve product traceability processes by leveraging GS1 Standards: the Seafood Traceability Readiness Program and Dairy, Deli, Bakery ...
US-based mass spectrometry products provider AB SCIEX has developed a new method to detect horse DNA in meat samples. AB SCIEX noted that this development is in response to recent reports that horse and pig DNA had been identified in beef ...
The European Commission and European Union member states have decided to ban the flavoring substance 3-acetyl-2,5-dimethylthiophene over safety concerns. The decision to remove this substance from the list of approved flavorings was ...