Horizon scanning
Some of the information tweeted @BioCheckUK in May 2018: Cattlemen’s petition would cause chaos in the market place Clean meat: traditional animal... Read More
Calling time on allergen mislabelling
In the UK food and drink industry, product recall figures due to the mislabelling of food allergens, rose by 62% in 2015/16; according... Read More
Allergen Management, 10th January 2017
SOFHT Breakfast Club meeting: Time: 9.00am—12.30pm Venue: SOFHT Training Room, The Granary, Middleton House Farm, Tamworth Road, Middleton, Staffordshire, B78 2BD ... Read More
New Allergen-Check kits for testing wine
Two new Allergen-Check ELISA kits, Ovalbumin-Check and Lysozyme-Check have been launched for detecting protein residues from finings in wine. In addition the validation... Read More
Investigation into herbs and spices supply chain
As the number of recalls for the presence of undeclared allergens in spices and herbs increases across North America and Europe the root cause... Read More
Undeclared peanut and almond cases
The Food Standards Agency’s (FSA) own investigation of lamb takeaway dishes for meat substitution found that 7% of dishes with a sauce contained... Read More
Thresholds for unintended allergens?
The lack of data on allergen thresholds is preventing the development of effective, evidence-based food allergen control plans in food manufacture and clinical... Read More
New focus on food fraud in BRC Issue 7
The 7th issue of BRC’s Global Standard for Food Safety has been published and becomes effective on 1st July 2015. There are many... Read More
Eating out is now safer for allergic consumers?
For the food industry, the significance of Saturday 13th December 2014 should not have passed without notice, with the new Food Information to... Read More
Protection against Food Fraud
The UK food and drink manufacturing industry had a turnover of £92 billion in 2012 and the industry makes up the largest of... Read More