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Thursday, January 10, 2019 - 14:39
IFST is preparing a response to FSA’s consultation on the guidance on food traceability, withdrawals and recalls within the food industry.
This guidance sets out the roles and responsibilities of the...
Wednesday, January 9, 2019 - 09:02
According to data published by the Food Safety Authority of Ireland (FSAI), 109 Enforcement Orders were served on food businesses for breaches in food safety legislation in 2018, increasing by 58%...
Tuesday, January 8, 2019 - 08:43
The Food Safety Authority of Ireland is seeking views from key stakeholders on what the food safety system (national/global) needs to look like by 2030 to ensure they can deliver safe, nutritious and...
Tuesday, January 8, 2019 - 14:03
The Food Standards Agency has launched a consultation on its new ‘Guidance on Food Traceability, Withdrawals and Recalls within the UK Food Industry’.
The guidance sets out the roles and...
Monday, January 7, 2019 - 11:54
As Bisphenol A continues to be of concern to public health, we have published a new Information Statement entitled ‘Bisphenol A: Occurrence in Food and the Risk to Health.’ It provides an...
Tuesday, December 18, 2018 - 10:00
According to a study funded by the Food Standards Agency, more than one in 20 lettuces sold in the UK are contaminated with the potentially deadly bug norovirus.
Of 568 samples of lettuce, 30 (5.3%)...
Friday, December 14, 2018 - 08:44
EFSA has proposed to revise the tolerable intakes of two chemical contaminants to which humans are exposed through the food chain as a result of environmental pollution.
The first scientific opinion...
Wednesday, December 12, 2018 - 15:43
According to the annual report on trends and sources of zoonoses published by the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) and the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC), there were...
Friday, December 7, 2018 - 15:23
The top nine retailers across the UK have published their latest testing results on campylobacter contamination in UK-produced fresh whole chickens (covering samples tested from July to September...
Friday, December 7, 2018 - 14:00
EFSA has launched an open consultation for the guidance on the use of the Threshold of Toxicological Concern (TTC) approach in food safety assessment.
This guidance is meant for EFSA Panels/Units for...