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... india's new food safety act will strengthen better the ability of regulators and the government to handle food contamination incidents, the head of one of india's top food research institutes has said ... india will put in force on august 5 the food safety and standards act, 2006, which will see the food safety and standards authority of india (fssai), a body formed under the act, legally empowered to handle all food safety issues in india ... the fssai consists of scientific panels that will set standards and regulate and monitor the manufacture, processing, distribution, sale and import of food so as to ensure safe and wholesome food ... “this body will be able to better handle food contamination cases as it will have the ability and talent to trace the source of contamination in processed food more efficiently,” said vinay oswal, director of the national agriculture and food analysis and research institute (nafari) ... oswal added that farmers would also have to adopt good farming practices to prevent contamination of raw material used by food processing units ... according to oswal, the act has asked the food processing units and their suppliers to ensure use of quality agricultural produce and follow standard practices at processing, storage, supply and procurement

... the uk government is looking to set up a food analysis system, which would test for the levels of sweeteners found in certain products to ensure their safe use ... the nation’s food standards agency (fsa), which is the process of being restructured to focus exclusively on food safety, is commissioning a project to develop an analytical method for the detection of sweeteners in food, including saccharin, aspartame and sucralose ... due to be used for “routine analysis” of sweetener levels in food to ensure their use is safe, the fsa said the move is part of its efforts to support consumer protection on food additives

... james chivers-wilson, vp corporate development, said the aoac certification for vitamin a kit is significant because: “it confirms through industrial analysis that our kits perform as we say that do as indicated on their labels ... milk processors and food analysis labs can have confidence that the kits work with appropriate sensitivity and accuracy

... the national health survey food analysis program will send analysts out to test fourteen different food groups from five capital cities for a variety of different nutritional qualities

... the first food-testing laboratory in china recognised to reach international standards for pesticide screenings, melamine and heavy metal testing and microbiological analyses, was opened last month by eurofins in suzhou ... iso 17025 status, which was awarded by the german accreditation agency dach, is proof it offers “ the only independent food-testing laboratory in china that can provide a full international-standard service from start to finish ”, said the laboratory group eurofins ... it added that customers also benefit from “in-depth understanding of the chinese food industry” in addition to peace of mind that products they import from china comply with european legislative demands and standards ... “ before, they [customers] weren’t able to rely on or trust goods imported ,” dr werner nader, head of marketing and sales, food analysis, told foodproductiondaily ... the suzhou laboratory will allow the food industry to draw on reliable testing for exports from china, mostly to europe, the usa and japan, prior to shipment ... meanwhile, a new service platform eurofins global control is being launched to be adopted by the company’s laboratories in 30 countries where 150 facilities provide analysis in centres of food origin ... eurofins has said it will “ continue to invest in china to extend the laboratory’s capabilities as well as continuing its programme of expanding into many other important regions of sourcing for food ”

... uk food analysis firm rssl has added kiwi fruit to the list ofallergens it can detect by pcr (polymerase chain reaction) methods ... the announcement is likely to be welcomed by food makers who use kiwi as a natural ingredient ... rssl, which claims it can now analyse food and ingredient samples for a wide range of allergens, is holding a half-day seminar on the new directive 2003/89/ec andits implications for the food industry on 5 october in reading, uk

... the balkans will be the setting for the food technology group show 2003 to take place in istanbul, turkey from 27 to 30 march 2003 ... the exhibition will concurrently run three separate shows: food technology, food ingredients & additives and foodpack ... food technology aims to cover a wide range of areas from food processing technologies to machinery and equipment, and from food analysis systems to refrigeration and air conditioning systems ... the food ingredients exhibition will present a wide range of products ranging from amino acids and derivatives to food dyes and organic additives

... the city of prague is the setting for the first international symposium on recent advances in food analysis to take place on 5-7 november 2003 ... organised by the international association of environmental analytical chemistry the symposium will focus on recent advances and applications in food analysis ... the scientific programme is set to cover all analytical aspects and will include: general food analysis (proteins, lipids, carbohydrates, vitamins, flavour components, minerals etc ... ), gm food and substantial equivalence, food processing and packaging (acrylamide, 3-mcpd, plasticisers) and novel foods, nutraceuticals, products from organic farming and contaminants

... , a belfast (northern ireland) based company, which will develop and produce reagents and kits for the analysis of food products using biacore's spr technology ... biacore also announced that it has established a new business unit to manage its operations and evaluate opportunites within the food analysis industry