by Kitty Appels & Rob Kooijmans | May 5, 2019 | Food Safety
2018 was a record year for food recalls related to foreign objects: there was one case per week on average, according to worldwide data from Horizonscan. In absolute numbers, these types of food contamination cases are less frequent than Salmonella or E.coli, but the...
by Kitty Appels & Rob Kooijmans | Apr 14, 2019 | Food Safety
En marzo de 2017, el Parlamento de la UE y la Comisión adoptaron el Reglamento 2017/625 sobre controles oficiales de alimentos y piensos. La mayoría de sus disposiciones se aplicarán en diciembre de 2019. El nuevo Reglamento incorpora (y deroga) varias leyes...
by Kitty Appels & Rob Kooijmans | Apr 8, 2019 | Food Safety
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 carried out across the...
by Kitty Appels & Rob Kooijmans | Apr 5, 2019 | Food Safety
El 15 de marzo de 2017, el Parlamento y la Comisión de la UE adoptaron el Reglamento 2017/625 sobre los controles oficiales de la cadena de suministro de alimentos. La noticia no hizo demasiadas olas en la industria, tal vez porque, al menos en el futuro inmediato, no...
by Kitty Appels & Rob Kooijmans | Mar 30, 2019 | Food Safety
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 list of food safety scandals that occurred in China in the last fifteen years. To put an end to that,...
