查看更多>>摘要：In July 2022, Health Canada announced new regulations for supplemented foods.Supplemented foods are pre-packaged foods containing one or more added ingredients, such as vitamins, mineral nutrients, amino acids, caffeine or herbal extracts. Examples ofsupplemented foods include beverages with added minerals, caffeinated energy drinks, and snack bars with added vitamins.Scientific studies have shown that the ingredients added to supplemented foods can be harmful if consumed by vulnerable populations,such as children or pregnant people or if overconsumed by the general population.
查看更多>>摘要：Organisations worldwide are facing increasing regulatory pressure to provide greater traceability of their products. This pressure is two-fold, stemming from the need to protect consumer health and safety, and develop more transparent, future-proof supply chains.These drivers for change could be viewed as a necessary evil - a stick enforcing the adoption of new solutions and processes to provide additional data -however, this is not necessarily the case. Traceability and transparency require little more than a humble, serialised code - the vital link that joins a product to its online data, provenance, and history. Moreover, organisations can use the data afforded by serialisation to achieve much more than compliance.
查看更多>>摘要：The Plant-based Food Alliance UK has welcomed the decision by the West Sussex town of Haywards Heath to become the first town in Europe to sign the Plant Based Treaty.“We applaud the town council in Haywards Heath for taking this step and we encourage other towns in the UK to follow suit,” Marisa Heath, Alliance CEO, said. “Taking steps to transition to a more plant-based diet is important for food security, for the battle against climate change and for encouraging healthier diets,” Heath added.“It is also one of the simplest and quickest actions we can take to make a significant difference.”
查看更多>>摘要：The authenticity of food is a fundamental right that every party in the food chain, from source to consumer, should expect. Adulteration of food in any way that perverts its intended purity and conceals this from any subsequent customer in the supplychain is food fraud.This may occur through addition, substitution, or removal of key elements of the foods or through misrepresentation via its description. It is often economically motivated but, in some cases, may be criminally motivated. Some good summaries on food fraud and food crime more generally can be found in texts from the US Food & Drug Administration, the European Commission and the Food Standards Agency and, likewise, there are introductory videos on the topic from the FAO and the EU FoodScience Hub.
查看更多>>摘要：In August 2022 the BRCGS launched Issue 9 of the Global Standard Food Safety.Originally developed and published in 1998, the Standard has since developed and evolved to become the leading global food safety programme with over 22,000 certificated sites across more than 130 countries. The Standard provides a framework for food manufacturers to assist them in the production of safe, authentic, legal food and to manage quality to meet customer requirements.
查看更多>>摘要：Plant-based dietary alternatives to animal products are better for the environment and for human health when compared with the animal products they are designed to replace, say the authors of a new study.A new paper published in Future Foods argues that because these foods are ‘specifically formulated to replicate the taste, texture, and overall eating experience of animal products’, they are a much more effective way of reducing demand for meat and dairy than simply encouraging people to cook vegetarian whole foods.
查看更多>>摘要：Rothamsted is a major partner in a new ￡13 million research programme that will work with UK farmers to produce low carbon, environmentally friendly food.AgZero+ will bring together researchers and farmers to test ideas - not just in a lab or a few fields - but across whole farms and farming regions.Some of the smart farming’ ideas being tested include targeted fertiliser application, nature-based solutions, such as agroforestry, and new innovations, such as how biochar can affect carbon storage.
查看更多>>摘要：The Chartered Institute of Environmental Health (CIEH) have reported that a new Fair Trade Agreement (FTA) with India could see an increase in the number of food imports of staples like rice, wheat and tea to the UK, but experts warn this may lead topotentially illegal levels of Highly Hazardous Pesticides (HHP) in foods on supermarket shelves.India is one of the largest agricultural exporters in the world, but the county’s food safety standards are of concern to campaigners and the government a who are critical of India’s heavy use of pesticides food production.
查看更多>>摘要：Group wants a universal requirement for farms to record usage data and for the FDA to sample these data randomlyThis spring, the Food and Drug Administration commissioned the Reagan-Udall Foundation to explore how the agency could collect antimicrobial usage data from farms to better understand and limit antimicrobial resistance stemming from this usage.The rising level of antimicrobial resistance is a leading public health threat that will cause an estimated 10 million deaths per year globally by 2050. Antimicrobial usage in food animals can lead to the development of antimicrobial resistance in bacteria that harm humans.
查看更多>>摘要：On June 30, 2022 the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition (CFSAN) and Office of Food Policy and Response (OFPR) released an updated list (/food/guidance-doc-uments-regulatory-information-topic-food-and-di-etary-supplements/foodsprogram-guidance-un-der-development) of draft and final guidance topics that are a priority for the FDA Foods Program to complete during 2022.
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