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SOUTH AFRICA – South Africa’s Department of Health has published a massive 238-page document referred to as the Regulations Relating to the Labelling and Advertising of Foodstuffs that seeks to make significant changes to the way food items are labeled on store shelves in South Africa. The proposed changes reinforce many of the regulations that are already in place in…
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INDIA – Samunnati Agro Solutions, one of the largest agri-enterprises in India, has partnered with GLOBALG.A.P, a German organization that sets international standards for agricultural products to work on creating standards for crucial Indian crops like grains, pulses, and oilseeds. Many of the largest companies engaged in international trade of agricultural products frequently use the GLOBALG.A.P. standards as benchmarks for…
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U.S – Kerry Inc., a firm that produces food and ingredients, has pleaded guilty to a charge that it produced breakfast cereal in an unclean environment at a Gridley, Illinois, factory that was connected to a salmonellosis epidemic in 2018. Kerry pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor count of distributing contaminated cereal advertised as Kellogg’s Honey Smacks in accordance with a…
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U.S – According to a Food and Drug Administration (FDA) probe, employees at Big Olaf Creamery, the Florida-based creamery responsible for a multistate Listeria outbreak last year, had no place to wash their hands before going into the production room. The outbreak which affected 11 states, left at least one person dead and 27 others hospitalized. “It was observed that there was…
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