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two us food firms are facing fines of between $71,500 (€50,500) and $85,800 (€60,600) for safety violations by the department of labour\'s occupational safety and health administration (osha). red meat producer tyson foods inc is facing proposed penalties of $71,500 for one repeat and nine serious violations that relate to process safety management (psm) breaches. the penalties follow health and safety inspections that were initiated by osha at the company’s us dakota city facility in may 2011.

the boss of a massachusetts-based firm attempting to commercialize genetically engineered farmed salmon has accused a small group of senators opposing the move of “ willfully ignoring science-based research” and spreading “misinformed paranoia”. stotish: this is about \'technology, innovation, and science based regulation\' his comments came as eight senators signed a letter to the food and drug administration (fda) urging commissioner margaret hamburg to halt the regulatory approval process of aquabounty technologies’ aquadvantage salmon.

overweight chinese youth have a greater intake of vegetables, and a lower intake of sweets and fast food than did those who were not overweight, recent research suggests. he\'s getting his five-a-day the research was conducted at the keck school of medicine at the university of southern california to examine the odds of overweight and related correlates in chinese adolescents.

natural seaweed extracts could not only offer health benefits to consumers, but also improve the quality and safety of food products, according to a new review. microalgae and seaweed extracts are rich in polyphenolic compounds “which have well documented antioxidant properties,” and may also have antimicrobial activities against major food spoilage and food pathogenic micro-organisms, says the review.

the fresh produce consortium (fpc) has criticised the \"ineptitude\" of the european commission (ec), following what the trade body says was a poorly planned one-off advertisement aimed at reassuring uk consumers about the safety of fresh produce. the fpc said that the ec\'s ‘what’s on the menu this summer?’ advertisement in the metro commuter magazine today, \"makes no reference to uk businesses and will do nothing to help them or restore consumers’ confidence in fresh produce”.

the european commission is today launching a multimedia campaign as part of its €210m compensation package to support beleaguered european fruit and vegetables growers, processors and retailers still reeling from the \'e-coli crisis\'. ec ups ante to defend european fruits and vegetables after the e.coli crisis the late-may e.coli 104 h4 outbreaks killed 48 people in germany and sickened about 4000, with a host of culprits from cucumbers to tomatoes named before egyptian fenugreek sprouts were fingered as the most likely source and subsequently banned in the european union’s 27 member states.

just days after its soy protein-cholesterol reduction health claim was writ into the european union register of rejected claims, the soy industry has re-entered the game with a fresh submission it says has learnt hard lessons from last year’s efsa rebuttal. the soy industry hopes efsa will acknowledge cholesterol-heart benefits second time around “we had to understand what efsa was looking at and we have done a very close analysis of that in preparing this new dossier,” european vegetable protein federation (euvepro) secretary general jean-christophe kremer told nutraingredients this morning.

proposals to examine a move to a privatised system of third-party inspection of primary meat premises were rejected by the food standards agency’s (fsa’s) board early last week. in its response to the macdonald farming regulation task force report and the 19 recommendations that related directly to the fsa , the board agreed with all but one about setting up a group to consider the provision of meat inspection services by third parties.

food manufacturers face extra costs and the potential risk of gmos entering the food chain as new gmo rules for imported feed come into force on friday, warns cert id europe. the new european commission regulation aims to harmonise rules for the control of imports of feed materials from countries such as north and south america, which may contain traces of genetically modified organisms ( gmo s) not covered by eu authorisations.

the battle against foodborne viruses should focus on prevention of contamination during production rather than measures to eliminate them from tainted food, said the european food safety authority (efsa). norovirus the european food safety watchdog said foodborne viruses are the second most common cause of outbreaks in the region – bested only by the ubiquitous salmonella bug - and have been on the rise since 2007.