Food safety insight and analysis – Page 21
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Comment & Opinion
Horse meat: Shorter supply chains may help rebuild trust
As the horse meat scandal serves up ever-more shocking revelations, a number of things stand out…
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Analysis & Features
Sainsbury's Mike Coupe on horse meat and high streets
Sainsbury’s group commercial director Mike Coupe discusses the horse meat scandal, high streets and the ‘bus’…
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Analysis & Features
Why the meat supply chain must adopt a 'criminal' mentality
Stopping another scandal will involve more than lab work…
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Comment & Opinion
Horse burger scandal should be a wake-up call to government
News that horse meat and traces of pig have been found in burgers should be a wake-up call…
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Comment & Opinion
The source of the horse?
So now we know where that horse DNA came from. Except not really…
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Comment & Opinion
Stop horse play with food (and that includes GM)
Groundhog day. Two decades on from BSE, we’re still discussing the dubious provenance of processed meat products….
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Analysis & Features
Why DNA testing is no quick fix for horse meat scandals
As the horse DNA scandal gallops into its third week…
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Analysis & Features
Tomato prices bounce back after E.coli crisis
After last year’s deadly E.coli outbreak in Germany, demand for salad vegetables across the EU tumbled…
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Analysis & Features
The Olympic food trials
With 300,000 extra people a day expected during the Olympics, hygiene inspectors are working overtime to ensure food safety is spot on.
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Comment & Opinion
How can we rid chicken of campylobacter?
Recent Which? research found that 18% of supermarket chickens were contaminated with campylobacter and 17% with listeria.
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Analysis & Features
The big chicken questions answered
Maintaining growth in such a high-penetration sector is harder than ever. The Grocer quizzed four leading industry figures on the challenges facing poultry.
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Comment & Opinion
Food policy needs urgent rethink
If things weren’t tough enough for consumers in 2011, they also had to contend with being short-changed in terms of food policy.
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Analysis & Features
Food-borne diseases: the danger within
We’ve made huge progress in understanding food-borne diseases, but the journey is far from over.
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Analysis & Features
E.coli: how can we be sure our fruit and veg is safe?
The reputation of the fresh produce industry has been hurt by Germany’s E.coli tragedy. Should growers and retailers be doing more, asks Julia Glotz