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...

More than 100 people have reportedly fallen ill from Salmonella poisoning after eating food at Chin Chin Chinese Restaurant in Springwood, South of Brisbane, last weekend. Complainants include people from high risk groups including pregnant women, the elderly and children. People from these groups...

In 2013/2014, triple the number of Adelaide food businesses were fined for breaching food safety laws compared to previous years according to Adelaide Now. Food safety breaches That’s 44 businesses that were warned, fined or told to improve. The previous year 28 businesses were reprimanded, and in...

McDonald’s chicken nugget sales in Japan have stalled after a consumer reportedly discovered vinyl inside one of her nuggets whilst dining at a restaurant in the northern prefecture of Aomori. The offending item came from one of three production facilities based in Thailand that are used by...