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... agenda items to be discussed will include: the scottish national food and drink policy: recipe for successthe scottish government scudamore review: review of fsa and meat inspection service in scotlandoverview of shellfish surveillance and enforcement in scotlandthe extension of remedial action notices to all food establishmentsimports strategypublication of meat hygiene audit reportsproposal to relax certain provision of the current feed banreview of official control delivery for meat hygiene the agenda can be viewed via the link below

... the body has pledged to further develop a similar separation method for analysis of inorganic arsenic levels in a raft of other foods, including cereal grains, shellfish and fish ... “fish and shellfish have relatively high levels of arsenic, but a significant portion of this is in organic for,” said evira

... fda approvals ebeam has not been approved in the us for use in ready meals or prepared food, but rather spices and herbs, ground beef, poultry, shellfish, and fresh produce

... these undeclared allergens pose a public health risk to those allergic or sensitive to peanuts, fish or shellfish, so the agency has issued an allergy alert ... people with an allergy to peanuts, fish or shellfish are advised not to eat this product

there’s lots of good bank holiday reading in this month’s fsa e-news, which is now available online. our front page story highlights the excellent contribution being made to food safety week by ‘kids with cameras’. their ‘kitchen confidential’ dvd, which will be used during food safety week events, dishes the dirt on how food is bought, stored, prepared and cooked.

... the incidents included food fraud investigations and the subsequent seizures of illicit alcohol, some of which contained high levels of potentially harmful methanol, a salmonella bareilly outbreak associated with bean sprouts, and amnesic shellfish poisoning in whole king scallops

... to find out more about the levels of certain microbiological and chemical contaminants in food, the agency is commissioning surveys of: acrylamide in uk retail productslead in cattle, sheep, free range and organic chickens, and eggs from uk farms in areas of high geochemical leadenvironmental chemicals in composite food samples that are representative of the uk diet the content and pattern of ergot alkaloids and ergot sclerotia in uk cerealslisteria monocytogenes and other microoganisms in pre-packed ready-to-eat sliced meats from small to medium-sized businessesnorovirus in shellfish two other research projects being commissioned by the agency are: to investigate whether the visual post-mortem inspection of indoor fattening pigs can be extended to outdoor fattening pigs

... the research team is now working to broaden out the basis of study to include less common allergens: fish, shellfish and other nuts

... new technology promising to turn the testing and safety regime for shellfish products on its head could be on the market within 12 months ... biosensor-based tests for potentially dangerous toxins in shellfish developed by scientists at queen’s university belfast are significantly faster, cheaper and more reliable than existing methods, project leader professor chris elliott told foodmanufacture ... they were also able to detect a far wider range of shellfish toxins, which at best, could cause a mild bout of food poisoning and at worst could cause paralysis and death, he said ... “toxins in shellfish are a complex family ... ” results in 10 minutes, instead of two days he added: “currently, you’ve either got animal testing techniques whereby you inject extracts of the shellfish into animals and monitor the effects, or send samples off to a lab for hplc tests and wait two days for the results ... ” the method developed by elliott’s team involves dipping shellfish samples into a bath of water and adding unique ‘detector proteins’, which seek out and lock onto toxins in mussels, oysters, cockles and scallops, said elliott, who heads up the institute for agri-food and land use at queen’s ... tests on fishing boats, not labs queen’s, which has signed a contract with uk-based neogen europe to commercialise the tests, has also been awarded a $500,000 grant from the us food and drug administration (fda) to further develop the technology so that tests can be conducted on fishing boats as soon as shellfish are caught, he said

... they took a questionnaire asking how often they ate oysters, shellfish, tuna, fried fish and other fish not fried