Category: Food safety
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A widened porridge recall has sharpened focus on packaging resilience. Symphony Environmental is pitching pest-resistant plastic technologies as manufacturers and logistics operators look again at packaging integrity, warehouse controls, and food-contact compliance after a contamination alert in the oats category.
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The Food Standards Agency has moved forward with a broad rethink of regulation in England, opening work on a more nationally coordinated model for some large food businesses alongside wider changes to enforcement, registration, and transparency.
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A £70,967 confiscation order has extended the consequences of the Fears case, keeping pressure on animal by-product controls, disposal chains, and meat traceability systems.
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MOMA’s expanded recall now stretches across porridge pots, sachets, oats, and overnight oat products, extending the operational burden on stock withdrawals, traceability checks, and retailer replenishment.
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Huub Lelieveld’s award puts hygienic engineering back in focus globally. The 2026 World Food Prize spotlights machinery design, cleanability, and process control as core food-system disciplines.
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Large-format food lines can conceal costly waste, compliance, and recalls. In this feature, Phil Brown, Sales Director at Fortress Technology Europe, explains how integrated metal detection and checkweighing can reduce giveaway, improve traceability, and protect margins in high-volume food processing.
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Legionella compliance still depends on dependable culture workflows in practice. AnalytiChem has launched ready-to-use Redipor Legionella agar plates covering non-selective recovery, selective isolation, and cysteine-dependency confirmation for ISO 11731-aligned water testing.
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Poorly designed drains remain a persistent contamination risk in plants. This contributed feature examines sanitary drainage design in food and beverage facilities, from layout and materials to installation details that affect hygiene, maintenance, and operational resilience.
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TraceGains is expanding its European presence through compliance-led industry events. The programme spans Berlin, Birmingham, Düsseldorf, and a UK customer forum, with food safety, supplier data, and faster NPD at its core.
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WDS has launched detectable machinery components for food lines. The range targets contamination control requirements across processing, bakery, dairy, and packaging equipment.