A new study has revealed how leafy greens like spinach absorb various toxic metals differently and offers strategies to reduce uptake, highlighting practical solutions for farmers, food processors, and consumers.
The UK Food Standards Agency (FSA) has endorsed the Chartered Trading Standards Institute’s (CTSI’s) Professional Competency in Feed qualification route.
Recently introduced to U.S. Congress, the Federal and State Food Safety Information Sharing Act aims to grant the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) the authority to share crucial food safety information with state and local regulatory agencies to improve foodborne illness outbreak response.
CuratedFoodMetagenomicData (cFMD) is a new, open-source database for the collection of food microbial data. It currently includes the metagenomes of 2,533 foods, comprising more than 10,000 microbes, approximately half of which were previously unknown.
IFCO has launched a new innovation called Marina, a reusable fish crate that uses Bluetooth and QR codes to enable real-time data collection for cold chain management, and offering a sustainable alternative to single-use expanded polystyrene (EPS) boxes.
The California Assembly has passed a bill requiring an expedited review of paraquat, an herbicide linked to human health harms. It is used on food crops like almonds and pistachios.
To begin National Food Safety Education Month, we are joined by Mitzi Baum, CEO of STOP Foodborne Illness, for a discussion about STOP’s advocacy for better food safety policy to lessen the burden of foodborne illness in the U.S.
More than 200 food safety regulatory delegates recently convened in Nairobi, Kenya to discuss the possibility of aligning national food safety standards across Africa.
