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U.S – Grupo Bimbo, a Mexican multinational company with a presence in 33 countries of America, Europe, Asia, and Africa, has divested its baking x-ray technology subsidiary Kanan Smart Solution to food quality control system manufacturer Mekitec Group, a leading manufacturer of X-ray food inspection systems in a share transaction. The deal includes a software development team and local sales…
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UK – The Food Standards Agency (FSA), a UK-based regulatory body, has published the revised Food Law Code of Practice and Food Law Practice Guidance and introduced a Competency Framework in Wales, following consultation in December 2020. The Code provides statutory guidance to local authorities (LAs) and port health authorities (PHAs) on the approach they should take to regulate food…
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UK – Centre for Agriculture and Bioscience International (CABI) has launched a worldwide programme – PlantwisePlus -to help support low and lower-middle income countries to predict, prepare themselves for and prevent plant health threats in a changing climate reducing crop losses and empowering farmers to increase income, food security and food safety by producing more and higher quality food. CABI…
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AFRICA – It is progressively being recognized that the most significant challenge for food businesses is to introduce a positive culture of food safety into their operations and create a behavior-based Food Safety Management System. As the concept becomes clearer, so is the urgency to incorporate it in every food and beverage company. Experts at the virtual Food Safety &…
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NIGERIA – The Director-General of the National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC), Prof Moji Adeyeye has run down the constant rejection of food and agricultural commodities from Nigeria by the United States of America (USA) and the European Union (EU) member countries over what she described as poor quality. In a press statement on Quality and…
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INDIA – A group of 8 students undertaking an AI & Machine Learning Programme from India’s leading Ed-Tech company, Great Learning, have revealed that implementation of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in the food safety departments can help food and beverages, and hotel industry to minimise losses owed to food decay, by studying its current temperature thus predicting the rotting of the…
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UK -The National Pharmacy Association (NPA), UK has welcomed a new £19.2 million ( USD 26697580.80) funding for a cross-Government surveillance programme to improve the detection and tracking of foodborne and antimicrobial resistant (AMR) pathogens through the agri-food system. The £19.2m, awarded through the Treasury’s Shared Outcomes Fund, will support a three-year project to develop a pilot national surveillance network.…
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AFRICA – Africa has a big domestic market that possesses significant opportunities. Currently, Africa accounts for 2.9 per cent of the world production and 2.6 per cent of the world trade according to United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) statistics. Connoisseurs from various African countries converged at the virtual Africa Food Safety & Quality summit to deliberate on…
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AFRICA – Food safety has become a very key discussion, pushed further by the emergence of Covid-19. It has seen retailers shift their approaches to controlling food safety hazards within their business premises in order to ensure the safety of their food. The sector professionals converged to have a dialogue on the same in a platform provided by the Food…
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AFRICA – Panelists during the recently held Africa Food Safety and Quality Summit have underscored obliviousness on food safety importance, misuse of agri-inputs and microbiological hazards as the major fresh produce sector food safety concerns in Africa. The panel was addressed by Cyprian Kabbis, District chief executive, Eastern Africa, Bureau Veritas; George Akida, Exports Manager, Africado Tanzania; Frank Obure, General…
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