The fiasco with the huge ecological catastrophe in the Mexico and the southern states of USA is proving that tracing the hazards of food chain is a tedious task that requires scientific expertise but sometimes it is beyond our capacity...

A brown pelican coated in heavy oil tries to take flight. The US government only removed the brown pelican from its list of endangered species in November 2009. An estimated 40,000 brown pelicans live in the northern reaches of the Gulf of Mexico

Have you ever wondered how easy and not cheap is to recycle Tetrapak?

Tetrapak is quite popular as a packaging material in Food Industry but...from a chemical point of view, it is rather expensive and difficult to recycle it. Why?

According to the ISO22000:2005 system, any company that desires to produce safe products needs to plan and develop processes and apply control measures to control the safety and the non-conformancy of the final produce.

In Bill Clinton's successful 1992 presidential campaign against George HW Bush, the phrase "It's the economy, stupid" was coined by Clinton campaign strategist James Carville.

But, despite the enormity of the current global economic crisis, it is not the most crucial crisis facing us today and neither is the food shortage one. It is the scarcity of clean water that has most people worried. Food at affordable prices is not enough because, in order to produce food, we need water. In speaking to The Economist, chairman of Nestle Peter Brabeck-Letmathe said: "The water shortage is an even more urgent problem than climate change."

Greece is in dire straits. Two days ago, 3 innocent Marfin's bank employees were murdered. They were not allowed to go home the day of the massive demonstration in Athens, in fact they were locked in the Bank (MIG Group is the owner, with Mr Vgenopoulos as CEO) and when some rioters set fire at the ground floor...the chain of the fire spreaded in the whole building ...

Notably, all Good Manufacture Practice (GMP) and personnel training were missing: