Nestlé’s gives ConfectioneryNews a look inside its $31m expanded quality assurance center in Dublin, Ohio, where it is battling the emerging threat of foreign bodies in confections.
On a summer’s day in 1906 Theodore Roosevelt pushed through new food safety regulation. The Food and Drugs Act passed that day over 100 years ago was the last time the US food safety system was modernized.
The European Food Standards Authority (EFSA) emphasised the
importance of the farm to fork approach in combating the continuing
high prevalence of infectious diseases transmissible from animals
to humans.
US researchers claim to have invented a new 'food freshness sensor'
that can accurately detect spoiled food, and so help in the battle
against food poisoning.
Food processors should be monitored to ensure they apply proper
manufacturing and hygienicpractices throughout their plants says an
EU food safety panel.
A pathogen detecting system that uses scattered laser light can cut
costs and speed up safety checks for food processors, researchers
developing the technology claim.
Neogen, the US-based manufacturer of food safety and analysis
equipment, has developed what it claims is the world's first system
designed to read, store and analyse results from lateral flow
tests.
