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One-minute pathogen detection device could be food safety game changer
Fresh Fruit Portal: Surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy (SERS) is not a term that exactly rolls off the tongue, but its application in handheld devices has the potential to change the food industry as we know it.
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US: Third importer recalls Mexican papayas in Salmonella outbreak
Food Safety News: A third produce importer in the U.S. is recalling whole, fresh maradol papayas grown and packed by Carica de Campeche in Mexico because a deadly, ongoing Salmonella outbreak has been traced to papayas from the farm.
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SG: Battle against China’s fake foods drives new tech frontier
The Straits Times: While adulteration has been a bugbear of consumers since prehistoric wine was first diluted with saltwater, scandals in China over the past decade – from melamine-laced baby formula, to rat meat dressed as lamb – have seen the planet’s largest food-producing and consuming nation become a hotbed of corrupted, counterfeit, and contaminated food.
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2017 Conference
The fourth annual Fresh Produce Safety Conference, with the theme Science + Culture = Safe Food, was held at the University of Sydney on Wednesday August 9 2017.
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AU: Tomato transparency: from vine to dine
Food Processing: Kagome wanted to know exactly where the tomatoes came from, when they were picked, which truck delivered them, when they arrived at the plant, processing conditions, when they were packed and where they went … In other words, they wanted transparency from vine to dine.
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NZ: New Zealand’s five-year plan to stop the spread of superbugs
NZ City News: Known as antimicrobial resistance, superbugs develop when microorganisms that cause infections in humans, animals and plants become resistant to antibiotic, antiviral, anti-parasitic and antifungal medications.
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UK: Tesco China’s ‘Safety Bags’ Destroy Toxic Chemicals Found in Fruits and Vegetables
LLB Online: Tesco Safety Bags, introduced recently in China, are fruit and vegetable bags that use new technology to remove harmful pesticide residues. Safety Bags use photocatalysis, a process that breaks down compounds using the power of light, and is proven to destroy toxic chemicals, including even pesticides.
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AU: Reducing food safety risk in pack houses
Apple and Pear Australia Ltd: Researcher Elizabeth Frankish reports on the project she has begun to identify where food safety risks occur in apple production and to develop a code of practice to help growers, packers and others along the supply chain minimise those risks.
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US: 3 New Food Safety Resources for PMA Members
PMA Food Safety: Be aware of all latest food safety resources that are available to you and your company, such as a special report: Building Blocks for Food Safety, all you need to know about the Food Safety Modernisation Act, Listeria and Safe Washing of Produce.
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NZ: New Zealand and Indonesia strengthen Food Safety relationship
Scoop: Minister for Food Safety David Bennett met with Dr Penny Lukito, the chairwoman of Indonesia’s National Agency of Drug and Food Control (BPOM) this morning. “Meetings like this are important to ensuring that both agencies are aware of the goals each are working towards within their country’s food safety systems, a key tool underpinning agricultural trade,” Mr Bennett says.
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