Japan has long been on a mission to convince its trade partners to remove import restrictions placed on food products coming from the affected regions of Fukushima, Gunma, Ibaraki, Tochigi and Chiba, and has seen significant success over the past 13 years with about 90% or 49 out of 55 of these markets having done

The Nutri-Level system is expected to look very similar to Singapore’s Nutri-Grade system​, where processed food products would be labelled as either level A (dark green), B (light green), C (yellow) or D (red) according to their nutrient content.Whilst the system is likely to be implemented in phases, newly-released draft regulation documents from Indonesia’s National

Church Brothers LLC is recalling green onions in the United States and Canada after government testing showed contamination with Salmonella. Distribution was limited to retail and foodservice customers in Canada and in  Alabama, California, Connecticut, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, New York, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, Tennessee and Virginia. Church Brothers Farms has notified these customers and is working

A survey has updated knowledge on the level of Campylobacter and Salmonella on sheep meat. The Food Standards Agency (FSA) funded survey looked at microbial contamination on sheep carcasses in abattoirs in England and Wales. This included culled ewes (sheep over 12-months old) and lamb (sheep under 12-months). It was run in conjunction with surveys

Reser’s Fine Foods is recalling some of its meal kits because they include chicken that is part of an 11 million pound recall for Listeria contamination. The chicken was supplied by BrucePac. The Brucepak production facility has been found by the Food and Drug Administration to be contaminated with Listeria monocytogenes and chicken produced there

The Food and Drug Administration uses import alerts to enforce U.S. food safety regulations for food from foreign countries. The agency updates and modifies the alerts as needed. Recent modifications to FDA’s import alerts, as posted by the agency, are listed below. Use the chart below to view import alerts. Click here to go to

This is one of hundreds of frozen waffle products subject to recall. For a complete list of product codes and photos of other recalled brands, use links in story. TreeHouse Foods Inc. is recalling hundreds of flavors of frozen waffles because testing showed contamination with Listeria monocytogenes. The recalled products were distributed throughout the United

Gut health is arguably the most powerful trend to hit food and beverage in the past decade. In fact, such is its dominance, the global digestive health products market is now valued at 51.62 billion USD and is projected to grow at a CAGR of 8.3% over the next five years, according to Grand View

Ensuring food is safe to eat can be challenging. The food industry must often juggle the very real need to keep its consumers safe, by providing accurate information to them as to when food has expired, and the need to reduce food waste, which is a key contributor to climate change.Quality control is less directly

EFSA has acted on European Commission pressure to update not only scientific guidance for submitting novel food applications in the EU, but also the administrative guidance.The two updates, carried out following stakeholder consultation, better clarify the complex processes food and drink manufacturers must endure to gain novel foods approval.“First, the scientific guidance outlines the scientific