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Future success in the food industry to hinge on three factors

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Nutrition, environmental health, and food safety are issues that are becoming closely tied and vital to success in the food sector, according to speakers at the 2009 Institute of Food Technologists (IFT)...

Ten per cent of NSW food businesses fail food safety test

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The NSW Food Authority has reported that 10 per cent of food businesses investigated in the state have failed recent food safety inspections. Of the 23,000 food outlets inspected by local councils in the...

Food outlets face safety crackdown

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Every food outlet in the state of New South Wales can expect a random health inspection in the year ahead as the number of additions to the name and shame website causes concern for health authorities. Primary...

Salmonella’s sweet tooth could see its downfall

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For the first time UK scientists have shown what the food poisoning bug Salmonella feeds on to survive as it causes infection: glucose. The discovery of the weakness for sugar could provide a new way to...

Dead rats and toilet crabs ensure new additions to name and shame list

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A dead rat in the storage area of a Sydney restaurant joins a fish market which stored crabs in a toilet cubicle on the name and shame list in NSW. The name and shame database, run by the NSW Food Authority,...

How do consumers respond to food recalls?

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Consumers often fail to check their pantries for recalled products but when they find out about a recall they spread the word, according to new research from America. Rutgers Food Policy Institute (FPI)...

Cockroach in bread the latest addition to name and shame list

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A Ballina bakery that sold a cockroach in a loaf of bread is the one of 23 premises to appear on the NSW Government’s name and shame list this week, Primary Industries Minister Ian Macdonald said...

Authorities advise that pork is safe to eat

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New South Wales Primary Industries Minister, Ian Macdonald, has today reassured consumers that they cannot catch swine flu from eating pork or pork products. “There is no risk of contracting swine...

Rank risky products to improve food safety: USDA

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Food safety could receive a boost if regulators created a list to rank the riskiest products, a leading United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) official has suggested. America has been battered...

New Zealand outlines strategy to cut incidence of salmonella in food

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The New Zealand Food Safety Authority (NZFSA) has launched its plan to reduce the incidence of Salmonella in food. There are 1,274 cases reported by Australia’s eastern neighbours to public health...