Monday 4 March 2013

Verifying the origin of food


Following the discovery of horse DNA in a number of products labelled as beef, consumer and industry awareness of global food labelling and safety has skyrocketed. Issues such as legislation and import guidelines have shifted from being purely a focus of industry and have now become public concern. 

Woodhead Publishing's comprehensive list of Food Science, Technology and Nutrition books includes a number of titles that address these important areas:

The bestselling Innovations in food labelling provides important information about the principles and requirements of food labelling and considers standards and legal issues, and the forthcoming New analytical approaches for verifying the origin of food reviews new analytical methods and their applications.

The chapter Labelling of meat, poultry, seafood and their products in the EU (from Advances in meat, poultry and seafood packaging) details the existing rules for labelling meat, poultry, seafood and their products on an international, European Union and UK basis. This chapter is available for purchase or rental from our e-book platform Woodhead Publishing Online and was written by Dr Mark Woolfe, a former Food Standards Agency senior scientist who has given a number of interviews on the regulation changes that could have played a part in industry use of horse DNA:
Dr Bert Popping, from Eurofins Scientific Analytics, France, has made numerous media appearances regarding Eurofins' work on detecting horse meat in meat products. Dr Popping co-authored the chapter Meat and meat products in our book Food authenticity and traceability and has given  media appearances on Eurofins' work:


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