Top news of the week: 03.06.2022.
New law permits online, retail sales for SC home-based food producers
Regulations governing the cottage food industry were loosened May 23 when Gov. Henry McMaster signed a bill into law allowing home-based producers to sell “non-potentially hazardous" ...
Why Paying Attention to Gene Editing Is Important
If we are slow to address the issue of gene edited food products, other voices will control the narrative, potentially crippling consumer acceptance to the point that we are delayed in ...
Raising awareness on food safety highlighted
“Ensuring food security is one of the major pillars of the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Water Resources not only to ensure availability, stability or ability to obtain...
Update 3: FSA and FSS issue further guidance on the use of oils as ingredient substitutions
Further information is being issued about vegetable oil substitutions and product labelling as a result of the Ukraine conflict.
Horse meat fraud leads to six arrests in Belgium
The nationwide raids turned up horse passports, health certificates, controlled anaesthetics and hormones, nine vehicles, cash, and a weapon.
USDA Announces Framework for Shoring Up the Food Supply Chain and Transforming the Food System to Be Fairer, More Competitive, More Resilient
WASHINGTON, June 1, 2022 - Today, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) is announcing details of a framework to transform the food system to benefit consumers, producers and rural ...
GFSI to Share Comments on New Codex Guidance on Food Fraud
GFSI acts as an official observer to Codex, providing input and recommendations, and is also observing to help ensure this work does not reinvent the wheel, but identifies, collects and ...
What Outbreaks Teach Us About WGS
CDC’s review of the epidemiological information on the recent Salmonella Senftenberg peanut butter outbreak indicated that five of five people consumed peanut butter and four of the five ...