The Codex Alimentarius Committee has drafted a new guidance for the management of microbiological foodborne illness outbreaks at the recent Committee on Food Hygiene meeting.
The Codex Committee on Hygiene is in the process of revising the general principles of Hygiene (Codex, 2020). This document was first published in 1969. Codex has published the body of the text and most of the diagrams; however, the Decision Tree is still under review by the Codex Committee.
Risk communicators should be aware of the uncertainties in the science underlying food safety as well as their own potential biases. Do you understand what this means for your food safety messaging around your brand?
Nutrition labeling, ingredients, and food color requirements in Canada must be implemented by December of this year, as part of a 5-year plan started in 2016.
In 2020, the Epidemic Intelligence Information System, created by the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control, saw fewer requests as compared to its 2019 numbers.
This article elaborates on public-private partnerships in food safety, what their added values are in enhancing food control systems, and provides an example how coregulatory approaches using information from voluntary third-party assurance programs can lead to improved food safety outcomes.
An historical perspective of the recognition of access to safe food as a basic human right: Enter the World Health Organization (WHO)'s Food Safety Programme.
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