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Costing the food industry an estimated $10-$15 billion annually and affecting as much as 10% of the global food supply, food fraud is an ongoing issue that officials believe cannot be ignored. That is why the U.S. Pharmacopeial Convention (USP) has launched the next generation of its Food Fraud Database (FFD 2.0). The goal of […] Share this:October 25th, 2016 | Category: Food industry | Tags: collection of food fraud records, FDA regulatory requirements related to food safety, food fraud, Food Fraud Database (FFD 2.0), food fraud experts, food industry, food program at USP, Food Safety Modernization Act, food safety plans, global food supply, help with FSMA, known history of adulteration, limited food fraud, species identification, U.S. Pharmacopeial Convention (USP) | Comments are closed Horse meat has once again been found in beef products, this time in the Netherlands. The Dutch Food and Consumer Product Safety Authority (NVWA) has preventatively blocked beef shipments from an unnamed slaughterhouse after testing found horse DNA in four batches of beef products. Officials found the DNA during an investigation by the Intelligence and […] Share this:January 29th, 2014 | Category: Food industry | Tags: beef, EU, Food safety, horse meat, species identification, The Netherlands, UK | Comments are closed ‘Twas the year of acronyms on Neogen blog, from FSMA to COOL to PEDV. This year also saw new technological advances, big shakeups in the regulatory scene and fresh discoveries. Here’s a look at the most popular news items of 2013. Food safety The horse meat scandal Early in 2013, routine testing found horse and […] Share this:December 31st, 2013 | Category: Agriculture, Animal safety, Food industry, Genomics (Agrigenomics), Toxicology | Tags: animal safety, BSE, COOL, drought, Food safety, Food Safety Modernization Act, FSMA, genomics, PEDV, ractopamine, species identification, synthetic marijuana, toxicology | Comments are closed Almost a year after the horse meat incident in the United Kingdom and elsewhere in Europe, Scotland is moving to create tougher food safety rules. The new laws will require non-compliance with food regulations, such as food fraud, to be reported and will grant more authority to enforcement officials to confiscate products that don’t meet […] Share this:November 20th, 2013 | Category: Food industry | Tags: Food safety, FSA, horse meat, Scotland, species identification | Comments are closed E. coli Don’t have time to scour the internet for the latest food safety, animal safety, life sciences and agriculture news? Relax, we’ve got it covered. Corporate Keeper of the brick forest – City Pulse Neogen CEO James Herbert is to be honored for his work preserving Lansing’s history.
Food safety FSA publishes […] Share this:October 14th, 2013 | Category: Agriculture, Animal safety, Corporate news, Food industry, Toxicology | Tags: animal safety, bath salts, beef, corporate, E.coli, Food safety, horses, Pigoen fever, species identification, toxicology, Wheat | Comments are closed Don’t have time to scour the internet for the latest food safety, animal safety, life sciences and agriculture news? Relax, we’ve got it covered. Corporate Neogen acquires SyrVet Incorporated – Neogen Neogen’s animal safety offerings continue to grow.
Food safety EFSA reports on Listeria levels in certain ready-to-eat foods – European Food Safety Authority […] Share this:July 8th, 2013 | Category: Agriculture, Animal safety, Corporate news, Food industry, Genomics (Agrigenomics) | Tags: animal safety, CFIA, corporate, drought, EHV-1, farm, food allergy, Food safety, genomics, H7N9, horses, Milk, poultry, Safe Food for Canadians Act, species identification, SyrVet | Comments are closed Last year, notifications as part of Europe’s Rapid Alert System for Food and Feed (RASFF) dropped almost 4 percent from the previous year. In 2012, there were 8,797 RASFF notifications – a 3.9 percent decrease from 2011. Of those notifications, 40 percent (or 3,516) were original notifications and 60 percent (or 5,281) were follow-ups. This […] Share this:June 13th, 2013 | Category: Food industry | Tags: EU, Europe, Food safety, horses, methanol, RASFF, species identification | Comments are closed The United Kingdom’s (U.K.) Food Standards Agency (FSA) hopes to learn from the horse meat scandal that hit the nation earlier this year, according to a statement. In January, officials found horse and swine DNA in beef products in the U.K. during routine monitoring. Of the 27 beef burgers tested, 10 contained horse DNA and […] Share this:June 6th, 2013 | Category: Food industry | Tags: beef, food fraud, Food safety, FSA, horse meat scandal, horses, meat adulteration, meat species identification, species identification, UK | Comments are closed The European Commission (EC) this week adopted a group of measures to simplify and improve the food chain in member countries. The package also cuts down the amount of legislation surrounding the food chain from the current 70 pieces of legislation to only five, as represented in the package. The new approach also aims to […] Share this:May 9th, 2013 | Category: Food industry | Tags: EU, Europe, European Commission, Food safety, food supply chain, legislation, regulation, species identification | Comments are closed Less than 5 percent of food samples tested in a European Union (EU)-wide program contained traces of horse meat, the EU reported today. About 0.5 percent of the horse samples tested contained phenylbutazone, or bute, an anti-inflammatory drug used to treat pain. Its use is not permitted in animals destined for human consumption because of […] Share this:April 16th, 2013 | Category: Food industry | Tags: beef, EU, European Union, food fraud, Food safety, horse meat scandal, horses, meat adulteration, meat species identification, species identification | Comments are closed |
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