Leading public health organizations have reaffirmed that caramel coloring, including the trace amounts of 4-MEI found in it, is safe for use in colas and countless other foods.
The FDA is implementing the most sweeping reforms of the nation’s food safety rules in over 70 years, which has led to an influx of comments from the industry and the public. Through mid-January, FDA had already received 614 comments on various aspects of the proposed regulations, according to The Food Institute.
Roka Bioscience said it has secured $47.5 million in Series D financing to support the commercialization of its molecular food safety testing platform.
Chinese authorities have detected a cancer-causing toxin in peanuts and cooking oil that was only recently discovered in milk, in the nation's latest food safety scandal.
The government of Canada released its final report to Canadians on the action it has taken to respond to all recommendations outlined in the “Report of the Independent Investigator into the 2008 Listeriosis Outbreak.”
Thousands of ingredients that go into food have been classified as safe by private industry alone, without any U.S. government oversight, according to a new report.
Hong Kong’s Centre for Food Safety (CFS) announced the findings of a risk assessment study on the microbiological quality of cold-served non-prepackaged beverages (NPB) mixed or topped with solid ingredients.