Food Safety Magazine Editorial Team September 17, 2024 A recent sampling assignment conducted by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in Pennsylvania and Michigan found milk in 6.2 percent of dark chocolate and chocolate-containing products labeled as “dairy-free,” although all positive ...
Seafood methylmercury contamination is a global food safety issue. A model is developed to explore the impact of China’s municipal wastewater policies on seafood safety and reductions in methylmercury exposure. Xingrui Cai Mengqi Yang Xuejun Wang ...
The aim of this study is to provide an insight into recent safety and fraud issues within the dairy sector over a five-year period (2015–2019). For safety issues relating to milk and milk commodities the Rapid Alert System for Food and Feed (RASFF) provides free access to food and feed...
Promising prospects of nanomaterials in crop safety A data-driven synthesis demonstrates the positive impact of nanomaterials in boosting crop yields while reducing heavy metal accumulation and identifies the key factors influencing their efficacy.
“These inspections use a demerit-based evaluation system, with specific attention to refrigerator and freezer hygiene,” said Prof Mohd Hasni, adding that regulations require freezers to maintain temperatures below 0°C to ensure food safety. ...
Food Safety LawHygiene Standardspolystyrene food-contact articlesSummary While various packaging technologies and materials have been developed for enhancing food quality, packaging can also be a vehicle for chemical, biological, and physical contaminants that lead to food safety risk. By focusing on ...
Changes in food production and processing that will impact food safety and quality may include improved cleaning of frequently touched surfaces, which could reduce transmission of some foodborne diseases, such as norovirus infections (99). In a recent study with data from nine U.S. states between...
Two recent publications further advance the concept of text mining into the detection of unknown food safety hazards. In the first study, the European Media Monitor and scientific literature served as data sources for the successful identification of the occurrence of illegal stimulants in food supple...
Recent decades have witnessed an unprecedented development, but there are numerous relatively lesser-known fields. The most important of these are as follows: Econometric quantification of the consequences of food safety, up-and downscaled to different socioeconomic entities; Food safety problems in ...
Given the recent increase in the number of Nigerians estimated to be at risk of food insecurity, it is crucial to explore the array of tools used to quantify food insecurity (FI). This exploration will help determine the prevalence and severity of FI in Nigeria. This review explored the sco...