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Food testing processes that once took days are now completed to international standards in minutes. In-house food testing labs with high-tech food testing equipment are now an essential part of the food production process. After all, food contamination can result in costly recalls and destroy overnight reputations that took years to develop.
Moulds and mycotoxins dominated headlines last year as the ever-present threat showed up in feed bunks and silage piles in the aftermath of the 2012 drought in Australia and the floods in the Philippines or South China. Continue →
New Zealand Medical and Scientific introduces a new range of products on offer – they consist of a range of sanitiser test papers and pH strips. Continue →
Accurate measurement of the thickness of thin-walled items such as blow moulded plastic bottles is now easier following the release of the Magna-Mike® 8600 Hall Effect Thickness Gauge from Olympus NDT. Continue →
The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in the US has proposed two substantial new food safety rules that will help prevent foodborne illness to augment the Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA) signed into law two years ago. Continue →
Mettler Toledo production inspection division has launched its new test samples, offering manufacturers robust samples to ensure their metal detection and x-ray inspection systems comply with increasingly stringent global food safety legislation. Continue →
Industrial Research Limited (IRL) is setting up a new "protein science team" to be based at the University of Canterbury Biomolecular Interaction Centre and assisted by PhD and masters students from the university. Continue →
By Steve Best
Over the past 30 years New Zealand Medical and Scientific (NZMS) has evolved from a small medical supply company based in Auckland to a Trans-Tasman operation with a raft of products and services covering the medical, pharmaceutical and scientific sectors. Continue →
Cawthron Analytical Services has just completed validation of new cost-effective, rapid, and reliable methods for Vitamin B analyses in functional dairy powders including infant formula. Continue →
By Malik Altaf Hussain, The Department of Wine, Food and Molecular Biosciences, Lincoln University
The recent outbreak of Listeria in Hawke’s Bay reminds us how important it is to manage food safety constantly and consistently. Continue →
AsureQuality has again been awarded a three-year contract with the newly branded Ministry for Primary Industry (MPI), for organic chemical residue testing in red meat, honey, farmed fish and dairy products. Continue →
A leading US based global producer of high purity stevia extracts, announces that product patents have been granted in Australia and New Zealand for the company’s new Rebaudioside-A (RA) product of 99 percent purity. Continue →
The recent tragic Listeria-related deaths emphasise the vital importance that food businesses and consumers take this bacteria very seriously. Continue →
