by Kitty Appels & Rob Kooijmans | Apr 8, 2019 | Food Fraud
What is food fraud? Do you remember the horse meat scandal? It originated in Ireland at the beginning of 2013, when food inspectors found out that beef meat sold at common supermarkets contained considerable traces of horse meat. From there, over 15,000 tests were...
by Kitty Appels & Rob Kooijmans | Mar 30, 2019 | Food Safety
What are import food and export food requirements between China an the EU? What do you need to know? Ham treated with pesticides, fake powdered milk, expired meat sold to fast food chains and baby formula contaminated with melamine are just a few examples of the long...
by Kitty Appels & Rob Kooijmans | Mar 24, 2019 | Food Safety
In the early sixties hardly anybody knew how heat sealing machines work. For those of you that were born in or before the sixties, you may remember your lunch choice being made through a glass shelf on a café counter top, where the selection on offer was a bland...
by Kitty Appels & Rob Kooijmans | Mar 19, 2019 | Algemeen
In March 2017 the EU parliament and the commission adopted Regulation 2017/625 on Official Controls on food and feed – Official Controls Regulation. Most of its provisions will be applied in December 2019. The new Regulation incorporates (and repeals) several...
by Kitty Appels & Rob Kooijmans | Mar 11, 2019 | Algemeen
On 15 March 2017 the Official Controls Regulation on the food supply chain was adopted by the EU Parliament and Commission in Regulation 2017/625 on . The news didn’t make too many waves in the industry, perhaps because – at least for the immediate future...
by Kitty Appels & Rob Kooijmans | Oct 22, 2018 | Food Fraud
Which Food Fraud and other hazards are causing issues? Did you know that approximately 50% of the major issues and recalls faced by food producers are not originating from the food producing company itself? To a large extent these major issues and recalls originate at...
by Kitty Appels & Rob Kooijmans | Mar 6, 2018 | Food Safety
Introduction of Nanotechnology Picture this: you open the fridge reaching for the milk and notice that the carton has changed color: it was bright blue when you brought it home from the store but now it’s dark brown. That can only mean one thing: the milk is spoiled,...
by Kitty Appels & Rob Kooijmans | Jan 17, 2018 | Food Safety
Johannesburg – The World Health Organisation has said South Africa’s Listeria outbreak, with nearly 750 confirmed cases, is believed to be the largest-ever outbreak of the bacterial disease listeriosis. The second largest outbreak of listeriosis was in...
by Kitty Appels & Rob Kooijmans | Dec 5, 2017 | Food Safety
Introduction Norovirus on Food At the 2017 World Athletics Championships, Botswana sprinter Isaac Makwala qualified for the 200m semi-finals in a quite unusual way: by running the heat – and celebrating afterwards – all alone. During that week, Makwala, along with...
by Kitty Appels & Rob Kooijmans | Apr 25, 2017 | Food Safety
Introduction of Campylobacter and what food is found in From a recent report of the USA’s Centre for Disease Control (CDC) we learn that for the first time in 20 years, Campylobacter has taken the #1 position from Salmonella for causing food borne illnesses in the...
