Food safety insight and analysis – Page 13
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Analysis & Features
Fipronil scandal hits European egg prices
Just over a month after the fipronil scandal broke, the volatility in the European egg market shows no sign of abating
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Analysis & Features
Is chlorinated chicken the tip of the Brexit iceberg?
As post-Brexit Britain seeks new global trade deals, could our new food safety standards be worlds apart?
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Comment & Opinion
Supermarket X saga is like something out of a breathless spy novel
A cautionary tale for public health bodies… and supermarket CEOs
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Comment & Opinion
‘Supermarket x’ and the ethics of food risk disclosure
Food safety recalls are always either too early or too late so how should regulators approach public comms during such scares?
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Analysis & Features
PHE's hepatitis E report: the key facts and lessons
The ‘Supermarket X’ drama dominated headlines this week
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Comment & Opinion
The time has come to commit to UK supply for processing eggs
Research for The Grocer reveals a third of UK consumers have pledged to buy only British eggs and products made with British eggs
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Comment & Opinion
Know the origins of food with shorter supply chains
Sir, Is it too much to ask for food to come with provenance?
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Comment & Opinion
Salt, sugar & fat colour coding encourages food fear culture
Sir, It is insulting people’s intelligence to think they need colour codes for salt, sugar and fat on the front of pack…
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Comment & Opinion
Short supply chains are crucial common sense
Will processors be good eggs? That’s the question we posed back in April, when we investigated egg sourcing standards
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Analysis & Features
Fipronil egg contamination scandal: what you need to know now
Millions of eggs have been removed from supermarket shelves on the continent over fears they might be contaminated with pesticide
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Analysis & Features
Food fraud: catch them - if you can?
With horsemeat back in the dock, the fight against food fraud is once more top of the agenda. But as Brexit looms, is the UK ready to beat the crooks?
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Comment & Opinion
Horsegate has put fraud much higher up businesses' agendas
This week’s conviction in the Horsegate trial brings at last a degree of closure…
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Comment & Opinion
Step up the food fraud fight
I generally spend the first week of July in South East Asia discussing food security in the region
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Comment & Opinion
Food safety efforts must never be compromised by complacency
Sir, Companies must ensure they are doing all they can to remove any threats to products
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Comment & Opinion
British farmers must challenge these US-style mega farm misrepresentations
A headline-grabbing report on intensive factory farming is pure ’scaremongering’ … it’s all down to a question of scale
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Comment & Opinion
EU-China-Safe project forges a safer future
EU-China-Safe will mobilise resources across Europe and China to develop a cohesive partnership
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Comment & Opinion
We need tougher solutions for rice's arsenic problem
Proactive food companies just need to think outside the box
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Comment & Opinion
Edible insects are just one more hard to swallow 'miracle'
I have developed deep scepticism for the daily scientific miracle
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Comment & Opinion
Audits need to leap forward
The coordination and standardisation of audits was one of the eight pillars of food integrity in the Elliott Report
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Comment & Opinion
The ‘houmousgate’ affair: how secrecy gave the story unwanted mileage
By refusing to explain exactly what’s happened, retailers and suppliers have opened the door to hysteria