An Australian charity has raised concerns about people unnecessarily washing raw chicken before cooking it. The Food Safety Information Council released findings from a national study to mark Australian Food Safety Week which runs from Nov. 8 to 15. The poll conducted online in August included 1,221 people older than age of 18. One in...

Listen to the article 3 min This audio is auto-generated. Please let us know if you have feedback. Ingredion is partnering with Cosaic, giving the ingredient giant access to the startup’s “novel” product to improve plant-based and dairy products while accelerating a push to tap external innovation to deepen its portfolio. The Illinois-based company has...

This year, many in Congress have been working on bills to reform the Generally Recognized As Safe (GRAS) protocols for food ingredients. In the past week, this included  Sen. Roger Marshall’s Better Food Disclosure Act (The Better FDA), to change the Food and Drug Administration’s oversight of ingredient disclosures and reviews. It would also and...

More than half a dozen people have been infected by Listeria in Denmark since August. Between Aug. 21 and Oct. 24, seven people infected with the same type of Listeria monocytogenes were registered at the Statens Serum Institut (SSI). Five men and two women are ill. Patients range in age from 75 to 99 with...

Emergency funding legislation for the federal government approved by the Senate includes provisions that will hamper food safety efforts already in motion — industry lobbyists have been working to halt those efforts. In a scathing report, The Lever outlined how groups such as the National Restaurant Association, the National Grocers Association, and the International Foodservice...

Listen to the article 4 min This audio is auto-generated. Please let us know if you have feedback. As other food giants grapple with a sharp decline in sales, Chobani is posting robust growth across its business as consumers flock to its creamers, coffees and protein-packed Greek yogurt. Since Chobani’s founding 20 years ago, the...

Listen to the article 3 min This audio is auto-generated. Please let us know if you have feedback. Dive Brief: Keurig Dr Pepper is projecting roughly $200 million in supply chain savings for its coffee business over the three years following its acquisition of JDE Peet’s, according to an investors presentation. As part of the...

The latest batch of suspected fraud and non-compliance alerts in Europe include supplements, meat products, fish and chocolate. There were 164 reports in September, compared to 166 in August, 136 in July, 164 in June, and 129 in May. Three alerts involved the United States in September. Two were related to food supplements and the...

A food safety researcher in Sweden has called for more awareness of the risks posed by plant-based foods. “There is a naive belief that plant-based food is safer than animal-based food. Plant-based foods are just as vulnerable to the same pathogens we find in meat, fish, milk and eggs,” said Jenny Schelin, a researcher on...

U.S. audits of foreign country inspection systems for equivalency with America’s food safety regulations, such as the Federal Meat Inspection Act, the Poultry Inspection Act, the Egg Products Inspection Act, and the Humane Methods of Livestock Slaughter Act, don’t follow a predictable schedule. Nor do inspections of individual foreign food facilities. The USDA and FDA...