28 AUGUST 2017 THE SOURCE FOR FOODTECHNOLOGY INFORMATION Our mission is to become the laboratory of choice for Testing and Auditing Services in the following segments: Our is to become the laboratory of choice for Testing and Auditing Services in the following segments: > Food Testing – Microbiological & Chemistry > Water & Environmental Analysis > Food Forensics Investigations > Nutritional Testing > Residue Analysis > Food & Supply Chain Consulting > Food Testing – Microbiological & Chemistry > Nutritional Testing > Water & Environmental Analysis > Residue Analysis > Food Forensics Investigations > Food & Supply Chain Consulting > Pharmaceutical Testing – Microbiological & Chemistry > Regulatory & Third Party Food Safety Compliance Auditing > Food Testing – Microbiological & Chemistry > Water & Environmental Analysis > Food Forensics Investigations > Nutritional Testing > Residue Analysis > Food & Supply Chain Consulting > Pharmaceutical Testing – Microbiological & Chemistry > Regulatory & Third Party Food Safety Compliance Auditing > Pharmaceutical Testing – Microbiological & Chemistry > Regulatory & Third Party Food Safety Compliance Auditing Totally Independent – Truly Global info@eurofins.co.nz | www.eurofins.co.nz Totally Independent – Truly Global info@eurofins.co.nz | www.eurofins.co.nz Freephone: 0800 EUROFINS | 0800 387 63467 AUCKLAND | HAMILTON | WELLINGTON | CHRISTCHURCH Freephone:| 0800 387 63467 AUCKLAND | HAMILTON | WELLINGTON | CHRISTCHURCH Totally Independent – Truly Global info@eurofins.co.nz | www.eurofins.co.nz Freephone: 0800 EUROFINS | 0800 387 63467 AUCKLAND | HAMILTON | WELLINGTON | CHRISTCHURCH FT142 UNITED STATES: Consumers of canned foods from Asian specialty markets have been warned to take care by consumer watchdog Center for Environmental Health in Oakland, after recent tests revealed that more than 90% of products purchased in San Diego, Los Angeles, San Francisco and Sacramento tested positive for Bisphenol A (BPA). This followed a survey of canned foods from major supermarkets that showed around 40% contained the chemical, which has been linked to cancer and reproductive health problems in animal studies. CEH research director Caroline Cox says BPA is used in the lining of canned foods to prevent corrosion, and she is encouraging consumers to take care. “The BPA in the can lining leaches into the food during the canning process,” she says. “So when you eat the food, you’re actually eating a little bit of BPA.” Some scientists believe even small amounts of BPA may be dangerous, but the FDA says it is safe at current levels found in foods. ZIMBABWE: India will donate $2m worth of equipment to Zimbabwe for a food testing laboratory being established in the Department of Research and Specialist Services under the Ministry of Agriculture, Mechanisation and Irrigation Development. At a meeting between the Zimbabwean government and Indian Ambassador Rungsung Masakui this month, the laboratory equipment – described as “state-of-the-art” – was formally offered to test domestic and export materials. Zimbabwean agriculture minister Dr Joseph Made says irrigation sector development was also discussed. “Under irrigation also was the fact that Zimbabwe has an opportunity to produce crops that can be marketed in India,” he says. “Horticultural crops such as onions, avocado pears of a specific variety and pulses.” INDIA: India’s State Food Laboratory’s chief public analyst Narra Ravinda - who was recently arrested by the Anti Corruption Bureau (ACB) for issuing false food testing certificates - has allegedly misused his powers in letting off several business establishment owners by providing false reports after the owners were found supplying contaminated and spurious food to customers. ACB officials say Ravinda and other staff at the laboratory took advantage of staff crunches in the State Food Laboratory, colluding with food inspectors indulging in illegal graft activities. The ACB says those involved issued incorrect testing certificates to several owners running water plants illegally, by certifying that the water supplied was not contaminated, and other “spurious products including food-related material” in connection with a particular case registered by food inspectors.
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