Food Safety Magazine
What’s a ‘food fraud vulnerability assessment’?
Food fraud is the intentional and deliberate substitution, addition, tampering, or misrepresentation of food products, food ingredients, and food packaging ...
Europe takes first step toward greenlighting genetic editing of food animals
The European Food Safety Authority (EFSA’s) Genetically Modified Organisms (GMO) Panel has published a new scientific opinion on the use of synthetic ...
Why are so many unapproved chemicals found in European-grown organic food?
The European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) has published a report that investigates the occurrence of 21 active substances frequently present in organic ...
Australia’s deregulation of gene edited foods moves forward despite organic industry opposition
Food Standards Australia New Zealand (FSANZ) has approved updated definitions for genetically modified (GM) food in the Australia New Zealand Food ...
Artificial nose in development may make it possible to easily detect spoiled and damaged food
New artificial nose technology developed by the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) could make it possible to reliably ...
More than a dozen federal agencies oversee America’s food system. What can be done to clean up this regulatory mess
Complex and disparately funded regulatory oversight for food and beverage products, spread out among many federal agencies, has created a ...
UN’s Food and Agriculture Organization weighs in on the regulation of cell-based foods
The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) has turned its attention to cell-based foods (also known as ...
Clear Labs offering first comprehensive GMO testing of food using latest in DNA sequencing
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Clear Labs--a food analytics ...
False claim of ‘no consensus on GMO safety’ at heart of Vermont’s labeling bill
Several food industry trade groups, including the Grocery Manufacturers of America (GMA), filed suit in June 2014 to prevent Vermont’s ...