I love the term honey laundering, and in this continually growing food fraud scandal wouldn’t it be wonderful, almost romantic, if it were actually the bees that were perpetrating the crime and making all the money? I took some time to look into the background of honey adulteration, literature and analytical methods, specifically an isotope ratio mass spectrometry; (IRMS) method which I know is used routinely for product authentication in the food safety testing market.
Investing in a LIMS will give food testing labs, growers, producers and manufacturers the traceability they need to keep their products safe from contamination and to conform to the stricter regulations and reporting required by FSMA.
Due to their high nutritional value, dairy products are highly suitable for growth of Listeria monocytogenes. Eurofins’ Dr. Doug Marshall discusses the contributing factors and conditions in which Listeria contamination of dairy products is caused, and reviews critical control points and elements of an effective Listeria Control Plan.
The global food safety testing market is set to be driven by the worldwide increase in outbreaks of foodborne illness and implementation of more stringent food safety regulations, according to new market report that segments the data by Contaminant, Technology, Product Type and Region.
A new hand-washing device, the SaniTimer, helps ensure bacteria-free hands and clean food.
In this second part of the article, we examine further considerations for tubing selection, such as flammability, corrosion resistance, indoor/outdoor use, and fittings.
The New York Attorney General’s office has ordered Walmart, Target, Walgreens and GNC to stop selling “mislabeled” herbal supplements, after independent lab tests of these supplements have revealed that they do not contain ingredients as stated on the labels.
The consortium hopes that the research will result in a ‘microbial baseline,’ which will be a gold standard for food and health officials globally to understand what triggers contamination of food and a foodborne illness outbreak.
How to build an effective environmental monitoring program and what are the factors to consider? Food Microbiology and Toxicology expert Prof. Ann Draughon offers some insights.
Sensitivity, range of or matrices, or time to results, here’ s a list of 10 most important attributes for evaluating a diagnostic method or instrument, and how contract testing labs and food companies rank their top five.
