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AU: Community resource package launched for Australian Food Safety Week 2016
Australian food safety week: There is just a month to go until the 20th Australian Food Safety Week to be held from 6 to 12 November 2016, This year’s theme is ‘Raw and risky’ foods…
Read Article →US: Wal-Mart weighs in on food safety
Good Fruit Grower: Illnesses caused by foodborne pathogens are becoming much easier to track and investigate, and new science — whole genome sequencing — is enabling outbreaks to be traced to the source of the investigation. That means apple growers and packers need to up their game, according to Frank Yiannas, vice president of food safety and health for Wal-Mart. “What you did for food safety last year is no longer good enough, and you’re going to have to do something different this year and next year,â€
Read Article →US: ‘Dipstick’ may offer rapid on-farm bacterial testing of water, produce samples
Center for Produce Safety (US):Â A team from the University of Massachusetts and Cornell University is nearing completion of a test that can quickly detect Salmonella species or other produce pathogens, is relatively inexpensive and can be used on the farm.
Read Article →AU: Singleton foodies grow fresh vision for Aussie produce
Mandurah Mail: Singleton couple and self-proclaimed foodies Chantelle and Ben Fell were sick of mediocre, over-priced produce from the big supermarkets. Now, in September, the Fell’s idea has evolved into a full-blown website called ‘Food Forage’, which the couple and Mr Fell’s twin brother in Queensland developed on their own.
Read Article →NZ: Lawyer says laws needed for organic production
Stuff.co.nz: The organic movement in New Zealand agriculture is growing. This growth is driven by consumers now demanding organic produce, resulting in more farmers committing to organic production.
Read Article →CH: Lack of food safety causing over ten thousand deaths and hundreds of millions yuan in economic losses
People’s Daily Online: China’s food safety issues are costing the country over ten thousand lives and 5 billion yuan (750 million USD) in economic losses through 2015 alone, said Li Chunhua, head of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences City Development and Environment Institute. The institute released the “Urban Blue Book No.9†at the China Urban Development Summit Forum on September 30, 2016.
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US: Battling Listeria in produce processing
Food Quality and Safety: Listeria-related outbreaks and recalls are a persistent problem for the produce industry, according to the CDC’s listing of foodborne illness outbreaks and the FDA recall list. However, unlike other foodborne pathogens such as E. coli or Salmonella, which are usually brought into the plant on incoming raw material, Listeria can become resident in a processing facility, subsequently contaminating produce with each processing.
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US: How many do you know? Top 10 food safety myths and facts
Food Safety News: For the final day of Food Safety Month, we bring you these popular — and dangerous — myths and their factual counterparts from the Partnership for Food Safety Education.
Read Article →US: New study finds fear-based messaging about produce safety negatively impacts low income consumers
Yahoo Finance: Researchers at the Illinois Institute of Technology’s (IIT) Center for Nutrition Research surveyed low income consumers to learn more about what terms and information about fruits and vegetables may influence their shopping intentions.
Read Article →NZ: Frozen berries food and safety information update
NZ Ministry of Health: The Ministry for Primary Industries have updated their food safety information for consumers about making frozen imported berries safe
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