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Don’t have time to scour the internet for the latest food safety, animal safety, life sciences and agriculture news? Relax, we’ve got it covered. Food safety House advances funding bill that bans horse slaughter, gives FDA a small boost – Food Safety News The bill bumped up the budget for the U.S. Food and Drug Administration [...] Want to dig a little deeper into your favorite fruits’ genetics? Well, if you’re a fan of certain pears, apples, cherries and almonds (I know, I know, not a fruit), you’re in luck. Researchers at Washington State University have sequenced the genomes of four members of the Rosaceae family – the double haploid Comice pears, [...] Last year, notifications as part of Europe’s Rapid Alert System for Food and Feed (RASFF) dropped almost 4 percent from the previous year. In 2012, there were 8,797 RASFF notifications – a 3.9 percent decrease from 2011. Of those notifications, 40 percent (or 3,516) were original notifications and 60 percent (or 5,281) were follow-ups. This [...] Pushing back after the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) published its final country of origin labeling (COOL) rules last month, Canada has released a list of U.S. commodities up for potential retaliatory tariffs. The U.S. and Canada have been sparring over the rule, which also have been the subject of a World Trade Organization (WTO) [...] Don’t have time to scour the internet for the latest food safety, animal safety, life sciences and agriculture news? Relax, we’ve got it covered. National Dairy Month Moo-ve along May – June is National Dairy Month – Neogen Blog Check out some cool dairy facts and our infographic. Cheese may prevent cavities – Science Daily Another [...] New rules may be on the way for mechanically-tenderized beef products. Today the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) proposed new requirements for labeling beef that has been mechanically tenderized as well as adding additional cooking instructions to help consumers cook it safely. Mechanical tenderization is a process some meat cuts [...] The United Kingdom’s (U.K.) Food Standards Agency (FSA) hopes to learn from the horse meat scandal that hit the nation earlier this year, according to a statement. In January, officials found horse and swine DNA in beef products in the U.K. during routine monitoring. Of the 27 beef burgers tested, 10 contained horse DNA and 23 contained [...] E. coli Don’t have time to scour the internet for the latest food safety, animal safety, life sciences and agriculture news? Relax, we’ve got it covered. Food safety Gut reaction: Human colon replica demonstrates how E. coli contaminates groundwater – Scientific American Researchers found when E. coli O157:H7 (the most virulent strain of E. coli) [...] The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) issued its final version of the changes to country-of-origin labeling (COOL) for muscle cut commodities last week. The rule changes how these commodities are labeled to require the origin designation to include information not only on where the meat came from (currently often listed as “Product of the U.S.”), [...] |
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