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US Court Bars Vulto Creamery From Cheese Production Over Food Safety Violations
Apr 4, 2018A US federal court has barred Vulto Creamery from manufacturing and selling its cheese products after the company was found to be the source of a Listeria outbreak that sickened eight people and killed two. As per the order of the US ...
Tags: cheese products, cheese
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Several Countries Impose Ban on Meat Imports From Brazil
Mar 27, 2017Brazilian meat industry has received a huge blow as several countries have started to ban its meat imports following an investigation into corruption by health inspectors and the alleged sale of rotten products. China is the latest of the ...
Tags: Meat Imports, Meat
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Bumble Bee Recalls Tuna Products Over Contamination Issues
Mar 22, 2016US-based company Bumble Bee Foods has issued a voluntary recall of more than 31,579 tuna products over contamination issues. The company has cited "process deviations" to have occurred in a co-pack facility which is not owned or ...
Tags: Bumble Bee Foods, Voluntary recall, Tuna products, Contamination issues
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Fast Food Chain Supplier Stands Trial Over Meat Scandal
Dec 31, 2015Ten defendants representing the Shanghai and Hebei branches of Husi Food Company, a former supplier to McDonald's, KFC and Pizza Hut, have stood trial on charges of producing and selling shoddy products. The ten people and the two ...
Tags: Fast Food Chain, Meat Scandal
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CFIA Expands Chia Seed Powder Recall Over Suspected Salmonella Contamination
Dec 14, 2015The Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) has expanded its recall of chia seed powder, which it issued in November, to include more products due to suspected Salmonella contamination. The latest update from CFIA states that Everspring ...
Tags: Agriculture, Canadian Food Inspection Agency, chia seed powder
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Tyson Foods Recalls Chicken Wing Products with Repulsive Smell Suspecting Contamination
Nov 19, 2015Arkansas-based Tyson Foods has issued a recall of approximately 52,486 pounds of its chicken wing products which may have been contaminated due to repulsive odour. The problem was identified when Tyson received consumer complaints about ...
Tags: Tyson Foods, Chicken Wing Products
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Campbell Soup Issues Recall of Spaghettios Original Over Contamination with Plastic Pieces
Nov 19, 2015US-based Campbell Soup Company has issued a voluntary recall of 35,000 cans of SpaghettiOs Original for fear of contamination with pieces of red plastic, which was discovered in a small batch of cans. Due to potential choking hazard posed ...
Tags: Campbell Soup, Plastic Pieces, cans
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Same Day Alicyclobacillus Test for Fruit Juice and Concentrates
Oct 13, 2015Alicyclobacillus (ACB) species are bacteria which are resistant to low pH and pasteurisation. They produce off-flavour and aroma compounds that spoil juice products. Current methods for ACB testing are laborious and require over 7 days to ...
Tags: Alicyclobacillus, juice, soft drinks
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Ron Simon & Associates Is Suing Foster Farms for Allegedly Selling Tainted Chicken
Jul 7, 2015Food safety law firm Ron Simon & Associates is suing poultry products firm Foster Farms for allegedly selling tainted chicken. The law firm, along with local counsel Gomez Trial Attorneys of San Diego, filed a lawsuit claiming that Foster ...
Tags: food safety, food contamination
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Indian Food Safety Filed a Lawsuit Against Nestle India for Selling Maggi Noodles
Jun 4, 2015Indian food safety regulators have filed a lawsuit against Nestle India for selling Maggi noodles in the country with unsafe levels of lead. The complaint was filed at a local court in the state of Uttar Pradesh after the local Food ...
Tags: Food, Food Safety, Nestle
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Elvis Isn't Alive and Barcodes Hide Country of Origin
Apr 3, 2015Barcodes look mysterious. And every now and then an urban myth grows and develops about one or other of their numbers and/or stripes. The most enduring is that barcodes hold insider information about a product’s country of origin. ...
Tags: Elvis, GS1 Barcodes, Packaging
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Startup Vitargent Developed a Food Testing Technology to Detect Toxic Substances in Food
Mar 23, 2015Hong Kong based startup Vitargent has developed a food testing technology with fish embryos to detect toxic substances in food. Though the technology has been developed for food and beverages, it also has applications in areas such as ...
Tags: food safety, fish, EEDs
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Inner Mongolia Yili Industrial Announces Plans to Invest Around Cny2bn
Nov 25, 2014Chinese dairy producer Inner Mongolia Yili Industrial has announced plans to invest around CNY2bn ($327m) in its Oceania Dairy production base in Waimate, South Island, New Zealand. So far, the company has already invested around CNY1.2bn ...
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Mongolia Yili Industrial Plan to Invest Around Cny2bn in Its Oceania Dairy Production
Nov 25, 2014Chinese dairy producer Inner Mongolia Yili Industrial is planning to invest around CNY2bn ($327m) in its Oceania Dairy production base in New Zealand. The proposed investment will be employed in the construction of a raw milk ...
Tags: Inner Mongolia Yili Industrial, Oceania Dairy production, Agriculture
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110.23 Tonne of Toxic Tofu Was Dumped Into The Local Market by a Gang From Shandong
Nov 18, 2014Adding to the ever-growing dubious activities of China’s food industry, 110.23 tonne of toxic tofu was dumped into the local market by a gang from Shandong, in eastern China. As reported in the Shanghai Daily, rongalite, a banned ...