The US food safety inspection service has posted answers to commonly posed questions it receives on hazard analysis and critical control point (HACCP) procedures in a bid to help smaller companies ...

This year marks 25 years since FSIS issued its landmark final rule, “Pathogen Reduction/Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Point (PR/HACCP),” issued in the summer of 1996. “Food safety is an ...

The EU knows a comprehensive legal framework for food. “Food” under the General Food Law Regulation[1] in short includes drinks, chewing gum and any substance, including water, intentionally ...

The European Parliament has voted to give national food regulators authority to insist that some small food manufacturers follow HACCP health procedures. MEPs have amended liberalising proposals from ...

To ensure high standards of production of beef, pork and their products, the European Union (EU) community countries have developed multiple integrated systems which are designed to ensure high ...

CARIBBEAN Broilers (CB) hopes to boost chicken exports after investing over $30 million in a certification programme for local farmers. Nineteen poultry farmers were recently certified under ISO ...

Irish food outlets fail to an "astounding" degree to implement good hygiene safety procedures, an environmental health conference heard yesterday. Takeaways and public houses were said to be the worst ...