Olive oil, milk, honey, saffron, orange juice, coffee and apple juice are the seven most likely food ingredients to be targets for intentional or economically motivated adulteration of food, or food fraud, according to analysis of the first U.S. public database created to ...More
Food safety has been China’s Achilles heel for the past few years, and new data that reveals 51% of food inspections conducted in Mainland China during 2011 failed only adds to country’s food-safety woes. ...More
The International Dairy Federation (IDF) released its “Integrated Supply Chain Management" bulletin that provides new guidelines on the integrity of suppliers’ milk and tools, and procedures and methods can be used to counteract systematic and/or large scale adulteration of ...More
CNN is reporting Chinese officials on March 25 seized 26 tons of melamine-tainted milk powder that was intended for use in ice cream and pastries from a factory in the southwestern city of Chongqing. ...More
Approximately 45 percent of China’s 1,176 dairy producers were shut down March 31 after they failed to obtain new production licenses aimed at preventing a repeat of the 2008 melamine scandal that sickened thousands, killed at least six children and nearly destroyed China’s ...More
Approximately 20 percent of China’s 800 dairy producers will lose their licenses on March 31 because they failed quality inspections aimed at preventing a repeat of the 2008 melamine scandal that sickened thousands, killed at least six children and nearly destroyed China’s ...More
The Codex Alimentarius Commission (CAC) last week endorsed testing guidelines developed by the International Dairy Federation (IDF) and the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) for determining the melamine and cyanuric acid content of milk, milk products and ...More
Chinese officials have instructed businesses in Xiangfan’s central province of Hubei to trace 50 packages of corn-flavored dairy drink that are believed to contain melamine. ...More
The International Dairy Federation (IDF) and the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) have developed a new test standard to determine the content of melamine and cyanuric acid in liquid milk, powdered milk products and infant formula to prevent future ...More
The Codex Alimentarius Commission (CAC) announced formal international limits for melamine allowed in food, infant formula and animal feed during its meeting on July 6, 2010. The maximum amount of melamine allowed in powdered infant formula is 1 mg/kg and the amount of the ...More
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