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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.
Read Article →NL: Food safety a source of constant vigilance for retail
Fresh Plaza: Out of all the things consumers take into consideration when they’re at the supermarket, food safety rarely gets much attention. But for the people who are entrusted with providing that food, food safety is of paramount concern, and the ways fresh produce suppliers and retailers ensure the food they provide is safe has had to adapt to new challenges.
“In the 1970s, availability was a major issue, then taste was in the 1980s, like the environment was in the 1990s and social responsibility was in the 2000s,†said Leon Mols from Ahold while speaking during the recent PMA Fresh Connections held last week in Rotterdam.
Read Article →NZ: Food sellers face tighter regulations
Wanganui Chronicle: Food outlets should find it easier to operate under changes included in the Food Act 2014 – but that should not be seen as a licence to flaunt the rules. And while the regulations are effective from March 1 next year, there is a transition phase to bring all businesses into line.
Essentially, the rules require businesses that prepare and sell meals – hotels, restaurants, cafes, takeaway businesses and caterers – to have a “food control plan”. That plan will show how they manage food safely and they will have to record their processes, which will then be audited by council environmental health staff.
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