For a certain generation 1989 is simply the title of a Taylor Swift album. While for others it’s a year of milestones: the fall of the Berlin Wall being most notable. It also marked the beginning of another era with the beginning of CFA: “A New Association for a New Generation of Food”.   Click here to explore CFA through the years. And take a look at CFA News 41 which celebrated 25 years.  

A paper has recently been published in the peer-reviewed journal Food Control by Dr Nicola Wilson, Karin Goodburn and Dr Ken Johnston describing a method of membrane filtration to enumerate low levels of Listeria spp including Listeria monocytogenes (Lm) on salad leaf. The paper is described in the abstract and is an enhancement of the legally recognised reference method (BS EN ISO 11290-2:2017), which is insufficiently sensitive to enumerate the low numbers of Lm in most commercially prepared leaf salads. more sensitive method is required to evaluate the impact of process changes and the effect of Listeria control mechanisms in […]

The first phase of the Government’s Border Target Operating Model (BTOM) finally started to come into effect on 31 January. Uncertainties and concerns over BTOM’s implementation for EU-GB trade were the catalyst for a letter sent to Steve Barclay, EFRA Secretary of State from the SPS Certification Working Group. In the letter the Group, which comprises some 30 trade and professional organisations (representing £100bn of the UK’s food supply, production and distribution chain, enforcers and port health), detailed 16 different concerns, and proposed solutions around four issues: BCPs, groupage, EHCs and Authorised Operator Schemes. Concerns included the lack of details […]