The annual report of a system that helps ensure safe trade involving Europe has revealed the scale and reasons for rejected shipments. TRACES is the online platform of the Directorate-General for Health and Food Safety (DG Sante) in the European Commission, used for sanitary, phytosanitary and food safety certification. 2024 marked the system’s 20th anniversary....

Listen to the article 5 min This audio is auto-generated. Please let us know if you have feedback. Leftovers is our look at a few of the product ideas popping up everywhere. Some are intriguing, some sound amazing and some are the kinds of ideas we would never dream of. We can’t write about everything...

The Food and Drug Administration uses import alerts to enforce U.S. food safety regulations for food from foreign countries. The agency updates and modifies the alerts as needed. Recent modifications to FDA’s import alerts, as posted by the agency, are listed below. Click here to go to the FDA page with links to details on...

All 10 defendants in the Brazilian Backer beer trial have been acquitted. In a Belo Horizonte court, Judge Alexandre Magno de Resende Oliveira said the accused were acquitted because of a lack of evidence. An indictment by the Public Prosecutor’s Office of Minas Gerais (MPMG) charged the defendants with responsibility for the contamination of beers...

State-inspected meat and poultry sold on the internet could soon be crossing state lines, as the federal government embraces “direct to consumer” sales. Direct-to-consumer sales are favored by the nascent “Food Freedom”  movement for reducing food safety concerns. Many state and local statutes use the technique in scaling back food safety regulations for raw milk and...

Listen to the article 3 min This audio is auto-generated. Please let us know if you have feedback. With consumer interest in healthy snacking showing no sign of slowing, Mondelēz International’s fast-growing Perfect Snacks refrigerated protein bars are hoping to ride that momentum to become one of the Oreo maker’s next $1 billion brands, according...

Eater’s under-$25 holiday gift guide is, unabashedly, one of my favorites to curate during gift guide season — both as a shopping writer and a writer who lives, laughs, loves to shop. I live for the thrill of a thrifty find; that rush of finding the perfect gift that somehow comes in way under budget...

JFE Franchising Inc. of Houston, TX, is recalling peach salsa products containing California-grown yellow and white peaches because they may be contaminated with Listeria monocytogenes. This action is in response to the Oct. 29 recall issued by Moonlight Companies, whose peaches were supplied to retailer partners, used as ingredients in JFE Franchising Inc. peach salsa...

Listen to the article 6 min This audio is auto-generated. Please let us know if you have feedback. The holidays are coming, which means a flood of seasonal ad campaigns from major consumer brands and retailers. Leading the way, as it has for nearly a century, is Coca-Cola, a brand whose advertising is inextricably linked...

Omurice at Taimeiken. | Taimeiken Restaurants in Tokyo are known for shokunin, the people who focus on a single skill to the point of obsession. These chefs dedicate their lives to the smallest details of a cuisine: the optimal temperature for the oil when frying tempura, the perfect texture for sushi rice, the ideal sear...