Tonight, local officials will discuss whether food safety is still a priority for Lewiston, Maine. On its agenda tonight, the Lewiston Council has at least two items that do not look good for food safety. The first is to approve a letter to the State of Maine terminating the city’s agreement to inspect local food

Wenders LLC of Dublin, CA is recalling specific production lots of Trader Joes Nuts – 50% Less Sodium Roasted & Salted Whole Cashews because of potential Salmonella contamination. The issue was identified through routine testing by Food and Drug Adminitration during import, which indicated that at least one of the recalled lots tested positive for

Sweetness and sugar features strongly in many Filipino foods and can be exemplified by one of the country’s most popular desserts halo-halo, which is an amalgamation of various sweetened ingredients including pudding, ice cream, multiple sweetened beans and tubers, sweetened purple yam paste, jellies, cheese and more over crushed ice – and then commonly topped

Amanita phalloides or the death cap mushroom The Food Safety Information Council has warned people in Australia against picking and eating wild mushrooms. The charity raised several issues around picking mushrooms for consumption after recent wet weather in the country. Cathy Moir, chair of the Food Safety Information Council, said foraging for wild food is

As part of its enforcement activities, the Food and Drug Administration sends warning letters to entities under its jurisdiction. Some letters are not posted for public view until weeks or months after they are sent. Business owners have 15 days to respond to FDA warning letters. Warning letters often are not issued until a company

Stricter and safer: China proposes new pre-packaged labelling standards mandating clearer ingredient and origin information​​The Chinese government’s new draft regulations governing the labelling of pre-packaged foods and beverages contain stricter guidelines, including mandating manufacturers to include clearer information on compound ingredients as well as more details on country of origin.China has emerged as the latest

A report has found evidence of poor food safety in meals given to people seeking asylum in the capital of England. Concerns were raised about food in catered accommodation in London, with reports of unsafe products and a lack of provision for people with allergies. Sustain, Jesuit Refugee Service UK, and Life Seekers Aid conducted the research between October

The reason you likely haven’t come across meat-free octopus tentacles is because Revo Foods claims to be the first to market. The Austrian start-up has coined the invention The Kraken – Inspired by Octopus.How is a meat-free octopus tentacle made?​Although marketed as a plant-based product, the primary ingredient in Revo’s meat-free octopus actually comes from

“From 2020 there have been a lot of startups launch which are not too dis-similar to those in the infancy of the CBD industry, in that they fall within the space between being a food and being an anecdotal heath product, and fall into the dual nets of novel foods and health claims,” according to

Two food agencies in the United Kingdom have voiced their concern about the lack of vets and the potential impact on the meat sector. The Food Standards Agency (FSA) and Food Standards Scotland (FSS) urged the government and the veterinary profession to develop a sustainable approach to the UK’s vet capacity and capability. FSS and