Africa Food Safety & Quality Summit is Africa’s premier food safety, regulatory, policy, quality and laboratory management conference and exhibition. The industry focused Summit brings together regional and global experts and stakeholders to discover the […]
SOUTH AFRICA – Pick n Pay has joined the global food waste initiative and asked 20 of its biggest suppliers to join the movement. The project is backed by 10 of the world’s largest food […]
KENYA – DPL Festive, one of the leading bakeries in Kenya, has refuted claims of using impermissible preservatives in its flagship product under the brand ‘Festive Bread’ to extend the shelf-life of the product. This […]
KENYA – Mango exports from Kenya to Europe, the US and other key markets, slated to resume next year after lift of the ban imposed by the regulator six years ago. Kenya Plant Health Inspectorate […]
UK – Multinational food safety test kits supplier, Neogen Corporation has developed a quick and simple lateral flow test for ergot alkaloids – natural toxins produced by a fungus that commonly infects rye and wheat. […]
LIBERIA – The government of Liberia through the National Fisheries and Aquaculture Authority (NaFAA) and the Ministry of Commerce have signed a Technical Cooperation pack with the Ghana Standard Authority as a temporary arrangement for […]
IVORY COAST – The African Development Bank (AfDB), in collaboration with The United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) and the African Union Commission (AUC) under the auspices of the Joint Secretariat Support Office (JSSO), […]
GHANA – The Government of Denmark through FOSS, a global provider of high-tech analytical solutions used mainly in the agricultural and food industries is set to offer support to Ghana to improve the standard and […]
EAST AFRICA – In the wake of suspension of seven peanut butter brands from the Kenyan market by Kenya Bureau of Standards (KEBS) on 4th November 2019, the Rwanda Food and Drugs Authority (FDA) and […]
KENYA – The hashtag #whitealert has been trending in Kenya after a leading TV station aired an expose on the prevalence of Aflatoxins in Kenyan maize meal, as millers condemned the country’s standards regulator over […]
