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US: World-class food safety in foodservice
Food Safety Magazine: There are over 50 [US] restaurant chains that have over $1 billion in annual sales each. Some of these companies are quick to claim they have world-class food safety. But do they, really? What exactly makes a foodservice company best-in-class or world-class in food safety? Why would a company care to achieve those levels? This article will outline the processes and approaches that result in an elite food safety program.
Read Article →AU: What’s on the menu at Australia’s first waste food café using ingredients destined for the garbage
Daily Mail Australia: Pumpkin quinoa burgers, organic bulgar salad, and slow cooked lamb are just some of the dishes set to be served up at Australia’s first ever waste food pop-up café – where all the food is created from ingredients destined for landfill. A fancy range of sharing-style meals will be served up by chef Travis Harvey who has spent the past month ‘squirreling away’ surplus ingredients that have been donated from restaurants, supermarkets and events.
‘None of it is questionable for consumption, that is the striking thing,’ Harvey told Daily Mail Australia. Thanks to a change in the Civil Liabilities Amendment Act, more food retailers and restaurants now feel comfortable about donating surplus ingredients to charity because the liability has been removed.
Read Article →Earlybird registrations now open for the Fresh Produce Safety Conference 2015
Fresh Produce Safety Conference 2015
Advancing Outreach for Safe, Fresh Food
12 August 2015
Join us in Sydney for the premier event for fresh produce food safety professionals – registrations open now!
- EXAMINE key learnings from recent high profile food safety cases
- UPDATE your knowledge of evidence-based food safety best practice
- EXPLORE latest findings in current fresh produce research projects
- NETWORK with other food safety professionals from Australia, New Zealand and internationally
- CONTRIBUTE to the Fresh Produce Safety Centre’s research priority setting process
Registrations open now! Register before 12 July for earlybird prices: $132 for general admission and $66 for students.
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Food Standards releases revised frozen berry risk statement, writes Richard Bennett
Food Standards Australia New Zealand (FSANZ) has released its risk statement on ready-to-eat (RTE) frozen berries and hepatitis A virus (HAV) following an extensive review of the incident involving Patties Foods. Using an internationally recognised food safety risk assessment approach, FSANZ has concluded that “…hepatitis A virus in RTE berries produced and handled under Good Agricultural Practices (GAP) and Good Hygienic Practices (GHP) is not a medium to high risk to public health.â€
Read Article →AU: Food safety for farmers market stallholders
Southern NSW Harvest: In April 2015 Southern Harvest and Southern Harvest Farmers Market hosted a food safety information session for food producers in our region. While some information is specific to Palerang Council area, food producers and potential food producers from other council areas will find the videos useful. Insight is provided into NSW food regulations and, if you are not based in Palerang Shire Council area, you will discover the information you need to seek out from your local council prior to starting a food based business.
Food Safety for Farmers Market Stall Holders – Part 1
Food Safety for Farmers Market Stall Holders – Part 2
Read Article →AP: 70% of food executives rank food safety as most critical issue
Food Navigator-Asia: More than seven in 10 of senior Asia-Pacific food executives polled said food safety would have the biggest impact on consumer preference this year.
Read Article →SE: Frozen berries confirmed as deadly bug source
The Local: Imported frozen raspberries used in a Sunday dessert at an elderly care home in southern Sweden have been confirmed as the source of a vomiting bug which led to the deaths of three pensioners and caused more than seventy people to fall ill.
Norovirus, a winter vomiting bug, struck the care home in Ljungby a week ago, initially causing the deaths of two people, with another guest dying later in the week.
Sweden’s national food agency (Livsmedelsverket) said in a statement on Monday that tests had confirmed that imported frozen fruits were the source of the sickness outbreak.
Read Article →AU: Senate to investigate halal certification as small businesses urged to “put the facts on the table”
Smart Company: The Federal Parliament’s Economics Reference Committee will undertake a six-month inquiry into food certification schemes, including halal certification, after the Senate supported a motion by South Australian Liberal Senator Cory Bernardi on Wednesday afternoon.
Bernardi has been a fierce critic of practices associated with halal certification of feed products in Australia and told the Guardian yesterday, I “keep getting told any number of things about certification schemes and I don’t know what’s true and what’s not true, so I want to establish the factsâ€.
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US: Listeria outbreak was a ‘wake-up call’ for the U.S. apple industry
Food Safety News: Following the recent outbreak of Listeria monocytogenes linked to caramel apples which killed seven people and hospitalized 34, the president of the U.S. Apple Association has called food safety the apple industry’s “top issue,†according to the Capital Press.
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