Food Safety Magazine Editorial Team

Mettler-Toledo Product Inspection has introduced two-, three-, and four-in-one inspection systems combining checkweighing, metal detection, X-ray, and vision inspection.

Osaka Metropolitan University researchers have developed an antibody that can identify Campylobacter jejuni and inhibit its growth, which could potentially power rapid detection solutions for food contamination and medical interventions for foodborne illness. 

Babylife Organics has become the second U.S. baby food producer to announce a product testing initiative guided by EU standards; specifically, for toxic heavy metals, tested at four points along production, and measured in parts-per-billion.

Center for Produce Safety (CPS) Executive Director Bonnie Fernandez-Fenaroli has announced that she will be leaving the nonprofit in mid-2025, after a 16-year tenure.

The Swedish Food Agency is now offering free, public access to its full suite of food safety education e-learning courses, which may be of interest to food business owners and food inspectors.

Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. has launched its new Thermo Scientific™ iCAP™ MX Series ICP-MS designed for environmental, food, industrial, and research labs to simplify trace element analysis with inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry (ICP-MS).

On October 1—the first effective date of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s Human Foods Program (FDA’s HFP), as the agency begins implementing its reorganized structure—the HFP introduced a streamlined approach for processing complaints from the public about foods and dietary supplements.

The Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI) has launched a research project to develop methods for the detection of microplastic contamination, which will be used to assess the prevalence of and exposure levels to micro- and nanoplastics in Indian food.

In this bonus episode of Food Safety Matters, we speak to Dr. José Emilio Esteban and Sandra Eskin, USDA-FSIS’s Under Secretary for Food Safety and Deputy Under Secretary for Food Safety, respectively, about the agency’s proposed Salmonella Framework for Raw Poultry Products.

The European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) has published new guidance for industry on the submission of novel food applications, reflecting changes in the EU’s legal framework for novel foods.