Officials have issued warnings to Canberrans to avoid eating bread products purchased at Gunghalin Coles, after metal was found in a loaf purchased from the store. Chief Health Officer of ACT, Dr Paul Kelly, immediately requested that a notice be issued regarding all in-store Coles-brand bakery...

Both the chef and manager of a local pub in Essex have been sentenced to jail time totalling thirty months after a Christmas dinner served at their restaurant left a mother with a fatal dose of food poisoning. The mother, Della Callagher, aged 46, died approximately two days after she consumed the...

On Monday the 9th of February, the South Australian Cabinet approved the current draft set forward on a voluntary codefor free range eggs, where producers meeting strict conditions will be able to advertise their produce with the approved logo indicating South Australian Free Range Accreditation. ...

A number of food safety scares have arisen recently throughout the Australian Capital Territory, leading to a spate of stomach-turning ACT news reports. The standards of food safety within Australia require businesses and corporations to focus on producing food that is safe to consume, regardless...

Recently, a movement to dump imperfect mangos in North Queensland as juice contracts began to run dry has outragedcustomers and growers. The reduced amount of contracts for juicing left growers with tons of bumped and blemished produce, wasted simply because they didn’t meet premium grade...

In an effort to overcome consumer fears regarding food safety, China is becoming increasingly dependent on imports of rice from other countries, including Japan. Despite the fact that China is by far the largest consumer and producer of rice in the world, importation has sky-rocketed. In fact, the...

Jail time and massive fines for food safety offences are set to be introduced in the UAE if draft legislation set to be debated by the Federal National Council on February 3rd goes ahead. The draft law has been proposed after the House was told that many foods are causing deaths and lethal...

A Queensland woman has vowed never to eat McDonald’s food again after allegedly being served raw chicken in a McWrap this week. Gizela Tahuri, a personal trainer from Deception Bay in Queensland says that she took two huge mouthfuls out of the sandwich before realising that the chicken was raw. “I...

The US Department of Agriculture recently announced that over 18,675,102 pounds of meat (that’s over 8 million kilograms!) were recalled across the US in 2014 due to food safety issues. The biggest single issue causing recalls was undeclared allergens accounting for around a third of all recalled...

More than 110 people have been arrested, and 1000 tonnes of pork and 48 tonnes of cooking oil have been seized in the latest food safety scandal to hit China. Recent reports claim that pigs that had died from disease where being bought by syndicates and the contaminated pork then used to produce...