What a year it has been. Yesterday (23/3/21) marked 1 year since the first Coronavirus lockdown in the UK, and life has certainly changed for everyone. While the direct impact of the virus on people’s health has been obvious, sadly the pandemic has brought along other indirect ways of damaging our health. Not only has …
If you’re worried about how safe your food is, you’re not alone. Recent surveys of Brits and Europeans show that how safe the food is, due to bacterial contamination or the presence of foreign objects such as metal or plastic, is one of the top concerns people have when it comes to food. In an …
On an almost weekly basis, news stories from around the world warn us that food we may have bought recently in our local supermarket is unsafe for human consumption. Usually this is because the food has been found to have been contaminated by bacteria, often E. coli. It is almost unbelievable that in 2020 we …
Worried about catching Covid-19 from your food? The good news is that the consensus among scientists is that the risk of catching Covid-19 from your food is very low. However, research into the behaviour of the virus in different environmental conditions has yielded some interesting results. Scientists were already aware that freezing rarely destroys viruses; …
