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AU: GS1 and Australian Made to promote CoOL laws
Food Processing: GS1 Australia and the Australian Made Campaign will collaborate to help the food and grocery sector deliver the new country of origin labelling (CoOL) information to consumers and retailers.
The Australian Government’s new food labelling legislation comes into effect on 1 July 2016, requiring food businesses selling food in Australian retail stores to begin using new, easy-to-understand food labels that clearly show where the food is grown, produced, made or packed.
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AU: Cassava: the staple crop that can kill you
Food Processing: Easy to cultivate and drought-tolerant, the cassava plant is eaten by a billion people around the world every day. But its popularity is also its weakness, as attacks by pests and diseases have a potentially huge impact on food security. It’s also the only staple crop that can kill you or cause chronic neurological disease if it’s not processed, potentially producing fatal levels of cyanide when drought-stressed.
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Australian Research Council to fund important food safety projects in fresh produce industry through University of Sydney and Fresh Produce Safety Centre
FPSC: Professor Robyn McConchie and other researchers from the Faculty of Agriculture and Environment at the University of Sydney received a $2.2 million Australian Research Council Industrial Transformation Training Centre grant […]
Read Article →US: Not unexpectedly, a new drug-resistant ‘superbug’ pops up in the United States
Science: For years, public health experts have warned us that deadly bacteria are developing resistance to all our available antibiotics. This week, researchers reported the first known U.S. case of an Escherichia coli infection resistant to colistin, a harsh drug seen as a last resort to knock out stubborn infections. The finding, described in the American Society for Microbiology journal Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy, is no big surprise to researchers tracking the rise of resistant bacteria. The resistance gene, known as mcr-1, was discovered in E. coli in China last year, and has since cropped up in Europe.
Read Article →FR: Danish illnesses traced to lettuce from France
Food Quality News: More than 400 people have been sickened by norovirus in Denmark by lettuce from France.
Read Article →US: FDA issues final food defense regulation
NZ Foreign Affairs: The U.S. Food and Drug Administration today finalized a new food safety rule under the landmark, bipartisan FDA Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA) that will help to prevent wide-scale public health harm by requiring companies in the United States and abroad to take steps to prevent intentional adulteration of the food supply. While such acts are unlikely to occur, the new rule advances mitigation strategies to further protect the food supply.
Read Article →AU: Food Authority fact sheet: A presumptive Listeria positive
NSW Food Authority: What to do if the laboratory finds Listeria monocytogenes in your product.
If your food business produces ready-to-eat food that will be stored in refrigeration for more than five days before consumption, then you need to answer the following questions …
Read Article →UK: Indian restaurateur jailed for killing customer with nut allergy
The Times: The owner of an Indian restaurant has been jailed for six years after serving a curry containing nuts to a customer who made it clear he had a peanut allergy. Mohammed Zaman, 53, the owner of six curry houses, was found guilty of gross negligence manslaughter at Teesside Crown Court on Monday in what is Âbelieved to be the first prosecution of its kind.
Read Article →US: Food safety, environmental stewardship can co-exist
The Packer: The late Steve Jobs told a roomful of Apple groupies at MacWorld in 1997, “We have to let go of the notion that for Apple to win, Microsoft must lose.†I used a variation of that theme to frame a discussion on the challenges of co-managing food safety and environmental measures at a conference in 2009.
“For food safety to win, the environment doesn’t have to lose,†I told a group of stakeholders back then.
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IE: Berries – Advice to boil imported frozen berries
Food Safety Authority of Ireland: Why is the FSAI reiterating its advice to boil imported frozen berries for one minute? As a result of recent outbreaks of norovirus in Sweden and hepatitis A virus in Australia, both of which have been linked to the consumption of imported frozen berries, the FSAI is reiterating its advice to continue to boil imported frozen berries for one minute before consumption. This is particularly important when serving these foods to vulnerable people such as nursing home residents.
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