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Flawed by design: why finished product testing has its limits 3 François Bourdichon explains the limits of finished product testing when it comes to ensuring safe production and how we could enhance the current methods set out. While it is gladly accepted that a proactive approach is preferable to a reactive one, it is rarely duly implemented. A false sense of security does not help either. Finished product testing is certainly the most commonly recognised scheme to ensure the conformity of the production, but it is flawed by design; particularly when the tested product is made from a hetero...

AFIA secures the status and financial clout to promote US feed products abroad The Foreign Agricultural Service (FAS) of the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) has awarded the American Feed Industry Association (AFIA) US$200K for 2021 through the Market Access Program (MAP) to support increasing access to US feed products abroad. The move grants the trade association 'co-operator' status for the first time, providing the AFIA the ability to independently manage the US government funds starting on January 1, 2021. AFIA’s director of international policy and tra...

Japan is looking to boost the exports and guarantee the food safety of one of its most iconic foods, the fermented soybean product natto, by working with the Codex Alimentarius Commission (CAC) to develop regional standards to govern its production in Asia. The CAC is the main part of the international Food Standards Programme run by the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organisation (UN FAO) and the World Health Organisation (WHO), and the Codex Alimentarius (English: Food Code) is a collection of standards, guidelines and codes of practice adopted by this commi...

Trade negotiator against mandatory labeling of imported pork 12/14/2020 09:04 PM John Deng, head of the Cabinet's Office of Trade Negotiations. CNA photo Dec. 14, 2020 Taipei, Dec. 14 (CNA) Taiwan's top trade negotiator on Monday lauded the government's policy of setting stricter standards to cap the amount of residue of the livestock drug ractopamine in imported pork and encouraging businesses, instead of demanding them, to label their pork products as ractopamine-free. John Deng (鄧振中), head of the Cabinet's Office of Trade Negotiations, was answering questions from reporters about a s...