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Tuesday, October 23, 2018 - 14:35
The European Commission has published the "Guidelines for the feed use of food no longer intended for human consumption", as integral part of the communication on the Circular Economy. The...
Tuesday, October 23, 2018 - 14:37
Following concerns expressed by citizens in a successful European Citizen’s initiative, the European Commission has issued a proposal to improve the transparency of scientific studies in the food...
Tuesday, October 23, 2018 - 14:39
EFSA has surveyed over 6,200 consumers in 25 EU Member States to seek their views on emerging risks in the food chain and how they would like to be informed about them. The respondents were more...
Thursday, June 7, 2018 - 15:45
The May 2018 issue of the International Journal of Food Science and Technology (IJFST) has been published online and is freely available to IFST members. Research from this...
Tuesday, October 23, 2018 - 14:40
The European Commission has published a new Regulation that tightens the restrictions on the use of Bisphenol A (BPA) in food contact materials. It lowers the regulatory limit (specific migration...
Friday, June 8, 2018 - 13:46
As part of our commitment to educate the public about food science and technology, we have released a new Food Science Fact Sheet on Date Labelling of Pre-Packaged Food. Manufacturers have an...
Tuesday, October 23, 2018 - 14:50
According to the rapid outbreak assessment published by EFSA and the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC), frozen corn is the likely source of an outbreak of Listeria...
Friday, June 8, 2018 - 14:02
The April 2018 issue of the International Journal of Food Science and Technology (IJFST) has been published online and is freely available to IFST members. Research from...
Thursday, June 7, 2018 - 15:45
IUFoST is welcoming submissions for oral and poster presentations for the 19th IUFoST World Congress taking place on 23-27 October in Mumbai, India. The event aims to bring together researchers,...
Tuesday, October 23, 2018 - 14:48
The top nine retailers across the UK have now published on their websites, their testing results on campylobacter contamination in UK produced fresh whole chickens (covering October to December 2017...