The Packaging Machinery Manufacturers Institute (PMMI) now offers an online learning course geared toward helping food packaging operations get a handle on mitigating safety risks.
Monsanto is threatening the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) with legal action after the European Union’s central science agency published data relating to a Monsanto genetically modified (GM) maize form.
There are no specific food safety concerns regarding leaching of mineral oils and ink chemicals from carton board packaging into food and consumers do not need to change their eating habits, according to research by the UK Food Standards Agency (FSA).
Processing equipment supplier Flowserve GB has been ordered to pay £211,863 after its flouting of health and safety rules lead to the death of an employee.
The German risk assessor Bundesinstitut für Risikobewertung (BfR) has released a brochure assessing cadmium intake through foods as an example of how food risks are scientifically reviewed.
Key findings from a risk assessment of two macrolide antibiotic
compounds, tylosin and tilmicosin, have determined that their use
in US food animal production is safe to public health. The findings
could well lead to the more widespread...
The Management Board of the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA)
met yesterday for the first time after the finalisation of the
Scientific Committee and panels which give the Authority its core
capability.
Food manufacturers across Germany are bracing themselves for future
reform after the country's newly appointed head of the federal
Insitute of Risk Assesment pledged to use "greater
transparency" to make food safer.
