Three men have been sentenced after being convicted of fraud and theft relating to poultry. Rana Dhaia, owner of Townsend Poultry in Wolverhampton, England, and Darren Williams and Elliot Smith, dispatch managers at 2 Sisters Food Group in Llangefni, Wales, were involved in the fraud. Dhaia was sentenced to four years and three months in

— COMMENTARY — By Davis W. Cheng, Ph. D. The terms “Contagious Disease,” “Infectious Disease,” and “Communicable Disease” are related concepts and often used interchangeably, but there are distinctions in their meanings and subtle differences in emphasis.  “Contagious Disease” specifically highlights diseases easily transmitted from person to person. Contagious diseases have a high potential for

FSIS’ International Liaison Director in Mexico City, Mexico, Ciarra Toomey, began her USDA career in 2008 as a trial attorney with the Office of the General Counsel’s (OGC) Trade Practices Division, now the Marketing, Regulatory and Food Safety Programs Division. In her role with OGC, Toomey represented and provided legal counsel to USDA agencies, including

Read more on the five top industry trends, emerging categories and regulations going into 2024, cultivated meat concerns, Nestle Vietnam’s new Nescafe concentrate and much more in our 10 most-read APAC F&B stories for January 2024.Click through the gallery to see them all.

Plant-based players have highlighted consumer acceptance and pricing challenges as major hurdles to overcome in the past year.This has led many to speculate whether the plant-based sector is ‘over’, especially with big players in the United States such as Beyond Meat and Impossible Foods facing multiple operational and management challenges in recent times.However, food industry

The chief executive officer of a Norwegian company linked to a Listeria outbreak has insisted it takes comprehensive action to tackle the pathogen. Comments from Henning Beltestad, CEO of Lerøy Seafood Group, come after scrutiny of the Lerøy Midt slaughterhouse and the Norwegian Food Safety Authority’s (Mattilsynet) follow-up on Listeria control. Citing a notification to

There is a wide range of reasons why it is important to be able to assess the quality of food products. You might need to know their composition, including levels of nutrients or sugars. You might need to check for potentially harmful substances, such as microplastics. You might simply want to know whether they have

A study by the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center has found that eating foods such as navy beans, which are rich in gut-supporting nutrients, fibre and amino acids, enhances the diversity of the gut microbiome and could help to prevent and treat colorectal cancer.How was the study conducted?​Funded by the American Cancer Society

Madrid-based Eatable Adventures – one of the top three food-tech accelerators in the world, has just closed 50% of its €30 million investment vehicle Europe Foodtech Acceleration Fund I SCSp. The new investment vehicle focusses on technology-based seed projects in the agri-food sector, encompassing the Spain Foodtech and FoodSeed acceleration programmes in Italy, with a third programme