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Fighting against food fraud
Eric Jamin from Eurofins Analytics looks as the testing tools available to the food industry for verifying the origin and validity of a product or component as well as emerging methods in this sector.
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New Dutch beef contaminated with horse meat
The Dutch Food and Consumer Product Safety Authority (NVWA) has seized meat from a slaughterhouse in Gelderland in a preventive block. During a criminal investigation by the Intelligence and Investigation Service (IOD), horse DNA was found in four batches of beef scraps from the slaughterhouse. All consignments of meat (over 690 tons) that the slaughterhouse […]
Food scares are merely tip of the iceberg
Product recalls and other food safety incidents reported to and by the Food Standards Agency are merely the tip of the iceberg, according to research performed by Trace One. While the general public is only aware of food recalls that affect major retailers or have wide-reaching consequences (such as the 2013 horse meat crisis), the […]
Horse DNA detected in canned beef from Romania
The Food Standards Agency (FSA) has been informed that a batch of canned sliced beef that was found to contain horse DNA has been withdrawn from sale. Horse meat is not identified in the ingredients list and therefore it should not have been present in the product. The canned beef was manufactured in Romania in […]