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... india's new food safety act will strengthen better the ability of regulators and the government to handle food contamination incidents, the head of one of india's top food research institutes has said ... india will put in force on august 5 the food safety and standards act, 2006, which will see the food safety and standards authority of india (fssai), a body formed under the act, legally empowered to handle all food safety issues in india ... the fssai consists of scientific panels that will set standards and regulate and monitor the manufacture, processing, distribution, sale and import of food so as to ensure safe and wholesome food ... “this body will be able to better handle food contamination cases as it will have the ability and talent to trace the source of contamination in processed food more efficiently,” said vinay oswal, director of the national agriculture and food analysis and research institute (nafari) ... oswal added that farmers would also have to adopt good farming practices to prevent contamination of raw material used by food processing units ... according to oswal, the act has asked the food processing units and their suppliers to ensure use of quality agricultural produce and follow standard practices at processing, storage, supply and procurement

... fsanz said that the taiwan food and drug administration was continuing to track affected products and is informing agencies in countries where these products have been exported, but criticisms have been levelled at the taiwanese agencies for the difficulty involved in tracking the products

... coli 0104 thought to have been carried on spanish cucumbers has now killed 10 and sickened 1,000 as the effects of the contamination crisis spread across europe ... europe-wide alert the bacteria at the centre of the food contamination incident is enterohaemorrhagic e ... yesterday, the czech republic and austria removed some spanish-grown cucumbers off store shelves over contamination fears ... closely monitoring food safety officials in austria confirmed suspect spanish cucumbers from malagan company frunet sl had entered the country via a german wholesaler ... the european food safety authority (efsa) said it was following the situation closely, while the commission said it would be monitoring developments daily through the rasff network and the early warning and response system (ewrs)

... speed is essential for pinpointing the source of food contamination and saving lives, according to a new study examining the 2008 salmonella outbreak caused by mexican peppers, but first linked to us tomatoes ... due to early implication of raw tomatoes in the outbreak, the food and drug administration (fda) initially advised consumers not to eat tomatoes, with a devastating effect on the tomato industry ... it said that although the recently passed food safety modernization act provides for “long overdue modernization” of the fda’s authorities, without the required additional resources, “requiring the fda to carry out the law’s required activities will be like trying to get blood out of a rock”

... the chinese food contamination freak show is back in full swing with new reports out of singapore indicating that certain chinese companies are now mass producing and selling fake rice to unwitting villagers ... the scandal is not a surprise when considering china's long legacy food problems, including the 2008 melamine-tainted milk incident where roughly 300,000 people were injured and at least six infants died as a result of being poisoned by the toxic chemical ( http://www ... other tainted food from china has included melamine-tainted pet foods, lead-tainted children's cups, and even another fake rice case where a chinese company added synthetic flavorings to ordinary rice to trick people into thinking it was the more expensive "wuchang" variety ... forcing us to consume fake food because we can't afford real food, because we have no real growth, we have no real economy, we have no real industry, we only have fake stuff," bemoaned talk show co-host stacy herbert from russia today

... ) commission, at the behest of lobbyists from the biotechnology, food, and animal feed industries, is proposing to undo a long-held "zero-tolerance" policy that protects the european food supply from contamination by unapproved genetically-modified organisms (gmo) ... if successful, the commission's efforts will open wide the floodgates for imported gmo foodstuffs to further contaminate its food supply ... 's zero-tolerance policy states that any imported food or feed material cannot contain even trace amounts of gmo substances that have not been approved by the e ... this includes many of the gmo food crops grown in the u ... so gmos are already pervasive in the european food supply, despite the policy ... has restrictions in place that require gmo food products to be labeled as such

... a spokesman from the german federal ministry for food, agriculture and consumer protection declined to comment on these reports ... com that minister aigner would be meeting with the food, agriculture and consumer protection ministers from germany’s 16 federal states (landers) tomorrow to “clarify all questions ” relating to the food contamination scandal ... dioxin-contaminated liquid eggs are known to have entered the food chains in the uk and denmark ... saturday’s development came just 24 hours after federal ministry released an anti-dioxin action plan calling for the tightening up of rules on animal feed and food manufacturers and as it confirmed that the majority of affected farms had been re-opened ... the plan would compel manufacturers to have “strict separation of production flows” for materials for industrial and feed/food uses

... high levels of polybrominated diphenyl ether (pbde) flame retardants found in a butter sample were most likely caused by tainted packaging, said scientists as they called for stricter regulatory scrutiny of the chemical in the food chain ... this is the first-known incidence of pbde contamination in us butter, said the study, which is to appear in the environmental health perspectives journal, published by the national institute of environmental health sciences (niehs) ... while the source could not be confirmed, the research concluded the contamination “is most likely from the paper wrapper contamination with octa- and deca bde , either from electronic devices in the butter processing plant or from the paper prior to delivery” ... the food processor involved investigated the incident but to date hasn’t shared its findings, said the researchers ... sampling programme the study acknowledged that the sample size was small but added that it could serve to alert authorities and food processors that “relatively high levels of food contamination with emerging pops sometimes occurs” ... “while an exact source is not yet clear, we suspect that high levels of contamination can occur during food processing and packaging,” said the researchers ... the authors highlighted the need for a regulatory programme that samples american food for persistent organic pollutants such as pbdes because chemicals remain in the environment even after their manufacture has ceased ... the us food and drug administration (fda) does not currently have tolerances, guidance levels, or action levels established for pbdes ... “by investigating the circumstances in which chemical contamination of us food occurs, it will be possible to determine when and where screening for pops contamination of food is most appropriate and will also help reduce incidence of contaminated food sold to the public,” said the research ... contamination of u

... chinese consumers rate food safety as the second gravest risk to health, with only earthquakes triggering more anxiety, according to a recent report from an insurance company ... fears over food contamination rated higher than cancer, unsafe water supply and drunk driving, said the survey commissioned by uk-based rsa china ... the country has been rocked by a number of high-profile food contamination scandals in recent years – including widespread tainting of infant milk with melamine in 2008 which killed seven and sickened around 300,000

... the authors claim that their study, published in the journal food control, is the widest study to assess the occurrence of the mycotoxins type - trichothecenes - in cereal based foods in spain to date ... the toxicity of t-2 and ht-2 was evaluated by the european commission’s scientific committee for food (scf) in 2001 ... the study the researchers explained that they assessed 479 food samples taken from the food products most susceptible to trichothecenes contamination and most commonly consumed in the region of catalonia such as wheat flakes, corn flakes, corn snacks, pasta and bread ... "our results showed that don was the main trichothecene present in the cereal-based food from catalonian market with percentages of positive samples ranging from 1 ... previous research, note the scientists, that was undertaken to assess the occurrence of the trichothecenes don in food products in spain found lower levels of positive samples that this research work ... and, although no worrying values have been found in this study for the trichothecene types don, t2 and ht2, the annual variability noted for the levels of these trichothecenes types in crops calls for the regular monitoring of food products for detection of their presence, concluded the scientists involved ... aflatoxin threat in june this year, the european food safety authority (efsa) launched a project to predict how climate change could increase the amount of aflatoxin b1 in cereals ... using different climate change scenarios, it will gather and analyse data on aflatoxin b1 in order to predict potential future contamination of cereal crops ... the agency said the research will help to inform its future work in the area and give an indication of potential food contamination issues related to climate change and mycotoxins