The government should step up prosecutions of alcohol smugglers who cost the Treasury £1.2bn/year, according to an influential committee of MPs.

Hong Kong’s food chief has said that the risk of a local avian influenza (AI outbreak remains at a “stable and low level”, but warned the poultry ind

Russian processor Cherkizovo Group has reported strong performance in the first half of 2012, driven by big increases in pork and poultry sales.

Representatives from across Australia’s meat sector have met to discuss measures to tackle the threat posed by foot-and-mouth disease.

Two health and environment organisations from the US initiated legal proceedings against the federal government on Wednesday.

The substantiation and transference into law of varying kinds of data backing food supplements, herbal products and other healthy foods remains a majo

The Danish government has revealed plans to drop its tax on saturated fats, introduced in October 2011, and shelve plans to introduce a tax on sugar f

Artificially and sugar-sweetened drinks may be linked to preterm child birth, according to Scandinavian researchers who have conducted a controversial

Two advocacy groups have sued the Food and Drug Administration (FDA and the Office of Management and Budget (OMB for delays in implementing the Food

Investigators with the US Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service found no evidence that sick animals entered the food supply f