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Tentamus Group welcomes Pegaso to its global network

May 10, 2023May 10, 2023

ITALY – Pegaso Management, an organizational and management consultancy company, is the latest addition to Tentamus Group’s chain of laboratories. Based in Ancona (Italy), Pegaso Management Srl offers organizational and management consulting services, acting as a reference partner to translate the reorganization needs of companies into projects. Innovation and sustainability are the requirements on which Pegaso has built its evolution,…

Researchers link Streptococcus outbreak in Italy to unpasteurized cheese

Apr 17, 2023Apr 17, 2023

ITALY – Researchers in the journal Emerging Infectious Diseases have linked the death of five people in Italy to the consumption of unpasteurized cheese produced from contaminated cow’s milk. According to the researchers, the incident is considered to be the largest and most severe outbreak associated with raw milk cheese in Italy. In central Italy, there were 37 cases of…

Nestlé to close pizza factory in France linked to deadly E. coli outbreak

Apr 5, 2023Apr 5, 2023

FRANCE – Swiss packaged-food giant Nestle has announced the closure of its frozen pizza factory in northern France amid declining sales on the backdrop of an E. coli outbreak last year, Just Food has reported. The closure follows a fatal E. coli outbreak in February 2022 that linked Buitoni-branded frozen pizzas produced at the factory in northern France to the…

Italy to ban cell-based food to preserve “Italian food heritage”

Apr 5, 2023Apr 5, 2023

ITALY – The Italian government has announced a bill banning the use and production of cell-based food and animal feed to safeguard the nation’s legacy and protect the health of its citizens. After the ban was announced, the country’s Minister of Agriculture Francesco Lollobrigida tweeted that it was a “battle of civilizations” and said it had made the move “in…

FAO publishes 2022-2031 strategic priorities for food safety to boost food safety in member countries

Mar 24, 2023Mar 27, 2023

ITALY – The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) has developed a nine-year set of strategic priorities with the vision to provide “Safe food for all people at all times”, taking into account the global context, the emerging drivers, and trends with implications for food safety. The mission, specified in the newly released FAO strategic priorities for food safety 2022-2031, is:…

UN executives, WFP Board appoint Cindy McCain to head United Nations World Food Programme

Mar 3, 2023Mar 13, 2023

ITALY – United Nations World Food Programme (WFP), the world’s largest humanitarian organization, has tapped the current United States Permanent Representative to the UN Agencies in Rome, Cindy McCain as its new Executive Director, effective April. The new appointment was made by United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres and the Director-General of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations…

Home canning predisposes Italy to botulism infections

Jan 16, 2023Jan 16, 2023

ITALY – Italian researchers through the national surveillance system have reported 1,039 suspected cases of botulism from 2001 to 2020, with a predominance in the Southern part of the country. One reason why Italy has one of the highest botulism rates in Europe is the nation’s long-standing habit of home canning. 406 cases of botulism involving 599 people were laboratory…

FAO/WHO expert committee develops risk assessment models for Listeria

Dec 2, 2022Jan 16, 2023

ITALY – The Joint FAO/WHO Expert Meeting in Microbial Risk Assessment (JEMRA) has developed risk assessment models for Listeria monocytogenes on leafy greens, frozen vegetables, cantaloupe melon, and ready-to-eat (RTE) seafood in response to a request by the Codex Committee on Food Hygiene. The group also provided recommendations to inform possible future revisions to the Codex Alimentarius “Guidelines on the Application…

Researchers create autonomous edible defrosting sensor

Nov 29, 2022Jan 16, 2023

ITALY –Consumers could soon tell whether a frozen foodstuff has been thawed and then refrozen thanks to a technology created by scientists at the Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia in Italy. Ivan Ilic, Mario Caironi, and their colleagues published the discovery in ACS Sensors under the title “Self-Powered Edible Defrosting Sensor”. Food, especially meat, can be frozen to extend its shelf…

Researchers develop novel packaging for extending pasta shelf life

Nov 3, 2022Jan 16, 2023

ITALY – Researchers in Italy have developed a brand-new method for prolonging the shelf life of fresh pasta by 30 days using a novel packaging process that also involves applying bioprotective probiotic cultures to the dough. The Frontiers in Microbiology journal featured their new fresh pasta preservation recipe. Pasta is serious business in Italy, with reportedly more than 300 specific…

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