Thank God it’s Friday! Quick news from the food world (Week 39)

Posted on by Cesare Varallo

Here's my selection of article for the week: - WHO Study Measures Global Burden of Listeria, by James Andrews on foodsafetynews.com: in 2010, Listeria monocytogenes was estimated to infect 23,150 people worldwide. It killed 5,463 of them, or 23.6 percent, according to a new study by European researchers in the World Health Organization (WHO) published in The … Continue reading Thank God it’s Friday! Quick news from the food world (Week 39)

Traffic light colour coding in UK

Posted on by Cesare Varallo

The British Department of Health, after 3 month UK-wide consultation, has invited mass market retailers to adopt this type of nutrition labeling in the first half of 2013. http://www.dh.gov.uk/health/2012/10/nutrition-labelling/ Here you can find the system description, directly from the UK National Health Service (NHS) website: "Traffic light colour coding Some front of pack nutrition labels use red, … Continue reading Traffic light colour coding in UK