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| 04.09.2024 | China's Food Safety Crisis: Goji Berries Under Scrutiny | China is facing a food safety storm. The latest scandal revolves around goji berries, a popular superfood. Authorities have launched an investigation after reports surfaced about harmful chemicals used in their production. This is not just ... |
| 03.09.2024 | China launches probe into goji berry contamination after claims of chemical use | SINGAPORE: Authorities in China have launched an investigation into the production of goji berries following a state news report which revealed harmful chemicals being used by merchants to retain the crop’s bright red colour, the second foo... |
| 21.08.2024 | Al Jasra restaurant in Kembangan suspended for two weeks due to infestation | Listen to this article
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| 20.08.2024 | Japan looks to boost seafood exports to new markets after Chinese ban, trade body says | TOKYO: Japan is ramping up promotional efforts to boost seafood exports to more destinations in Asia, the US, and Europe as it seeks to fill a sales gap left by a year-long Chinese import ban, the head of the Japan External Trade Organizati... |
| 16.08.2024 | Commentary: Caterers can keep consumers safe by revisiting basic food safety principles | Listen to this article
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| 16.08.2024 | ByteDance office food poisoning: SFA lifts suspension of Yun Nans outlet at Northpoint City | Listen to this article
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| 10.08.2024 | SFA lifts suspension of Pu Tien's Senoko catering kitchen after gastroenteritis cases at Bytedance office | Listen to this article
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| 06.08.2024 | Pei Pa Koa-flavoured food products unlikely to have any food safety issues: SFA | Listen to this article
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| 02.08.2024 | Caterer fined S$2,100 after 37 people fall ill at St Luke's ElderCare centres | Listen to this article
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| 01.08.2024 | ByteDance Food Poisoning: A Wake-Up Call for Food Safety | In a shocking incident that rattled the tech giant ByteDance, a mass food poisoning outbreak struck its Singapore office on July 30, 2024. The aftermath left 130 employees grappling with severe gastroenteritis symptoms, prompting swift acti... |
| 01.08.2024 | CNA Explains: Why was the ByteDance mass food poisoning case so severe, and how does it compare to previous incidents? | Listen to this article
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| 31.07.2024 | ByteDance office food poisoning: Operations suspended at Yun Nans' Northpoint branch and Putien's Senoko catering kitchen | Listen to this article
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| 30.07.2024 | 60 people fall ill after mass food poisoning incident at ByteDance office; SFA, MOH investigating | Listen to this article
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| 28.07.2024 | 'Feathers everywhere in the house': Residents of Depot Road HDB block plagued by pigeons | New: You can now listen to articles.
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| 27.07.2024 | Quarantine Breach and Gastroenteritis Outbreak: A Tale of Public Health Challenges in Singapore | In the heart of Singapore, two incidents have cast a spotlight on public health protocols and the importance of compliance. One case involves a man who breached quarantine rules during a mpox outbreak, while the other sees a gastroenteritis... |
| 26.07.2024 | 165 personnel at SCDF academy fall ill with gastroenteritis; investigations ongoing | Listen to this article
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| 09.07.2024 | CNA Explains: Bird flu is spreading globally. How worried should we be? | Listen to this article
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| 25.06.2024 | Pigeon culling among measures to be stepped up in pilot initiative at 3 town councils | Listen to this article
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| 20.06.2024 | Oil spill: Several beaches, including East Coast Park and Sentosa's Siloso, mostly cleared of oil | Listen to this article
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| 18.06.2024 | Tidal currents pose challenge to oil spill clean-up operations; drones, satellite imagery deployed to aid effort: MPA | New: You can now listen to articles.
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SINGAPORE: Tackling the oil spill that has struck several parts of Singapore’s coastline has been a challenge due to the ever-changing tides, said a senior executiv... |
| 18.06.2024 | Authorities issue bird flu advisory, warn against touching or feeding wild birds | Listen to this article
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| 17.06.2024 | Clean-up efforts expand with oil seen off Changi; booms in place to protect biodiversity-sensitive areas | Listen to this article
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| 04.06.2024 | Rats are a growing problem in Singapore. Here are the hotspots and what’s being done | Listen to this article
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| 31.05.2024 | Oil along Singapore's coasts? How NEA officers dip into drains and canals to trace sources of pollution | Listen to this article
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| 25.05.2024 | Edge buffet restaurant at Pan Pacific Hotel suspended after 16 diners fall ill | Listen to this article
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| 24.05.2024 | Cultivated Meat: Approvals and Prohibitions Since Singapore’s Pioneering Step in 2020
Singapore | Since Singapore became the first country to approve cultivated meat in 2020, a favorable regulatory environment has been growing in some nations while others have opted to ban the technology.
Currently, worldwide, 174 companies are developi... |
| 17.05.2024 | After a promising beginning, is Singapore's cultivated meat industry on the way to the slaughterhouse? | Listen to this article
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| 09.05.2024 | Singapore Proposes Revision of Novel Food Approvals with New “Defined Food” Category | The Singapore Food Agency (FSA) and the Ministry of Sustainability and the Environment (MSE) recently issued a new draft, the Food Safety and Security Bill (FSSB), proposing a new category, “Defined Food,” and new requirements for pre-marke... |
| 02.05.2024 | Bio Basic Asia Pacific Offers Free Re-Sequencing and Gel Analysis for Sanger Sequencing Services | SINGAPORE, May 2, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Bio Basic Asia Pacific, the regional branch of BBI Life Sciences Corporation established in Singapore in 2016, announces an initiative to enhance the quality and reliability of its Sanger sequencing se... |
| 17.04.2024 | How to safeguard yourself from food poisoning: Raw shellfish and fish, runny eggs, leftover rice | Listen to this article
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| 06.04.2024 | CNA Explains: What is red yeast rice, its health benefits and safety concerns? | Listen to this article
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| 03.04.2024 | Vow Receives Regulatory Approval to Launch “World-First” Cultivated Quail Product in Singapore | Australian cultivated meat company Vow announces that it has secured regulatory approval from the Singapore Food Agency (SFA) to produce and sell the world’s first cultivated quail product.
Vow’s product originates from cells of the rare Ja... |
| 05.03.2024 | FHA-Food & Beverage – Singapore’s largest F&B trade show – returns with an expected 60,000 attendees | FHA-Food & Beverage will see the launch of its first-ever FHA Ultimate Meat Challenge in 2024!
Singapore’s biggest F&B trade show has set its dates for 23-26 April 2024, with an expected attendance of 60,000 and 70 international pav... |
| 12.01.2024 | How Do Singapore’s Consumers & Experts Feel About Cultivated Meat? | 8 Mins Read Singapore is renowned for its position as an alternative protein leader – a new study reveals how members of the general public as well as scientific experts feel about cultured meat, and its effects on general health and societ... |
| 15.12.2023 | Designer fats in focus: Does it make commercial sense to produce fats via precision fermentation? | Multiple startups now harness oil-producing microbes to create ‘designer’ fats with customized melting points, nutritional profiles, or green credentials. But will fats made via precision fermentation ever be a commercially viable alternati... |
| 24.10.2023 | Singapore & UAE Sign Deals to Combat Climate Change, Support Green Economy & Boost Food Security | 5 Mins Read Singapore and the UAE have signed eight deals, which include strengthening their commitments to reducing carbon emissions, adapting to climate change and supporting climate-vulnerable nations at the COP28 climate conference, whi... |
| 26.09.2023 | Innovations in sustainable food production and decarbonisation initiatives to headline 2023's Singapore International Agri-Food Week | SINGAPORE, Sept. 26, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Singapore International Agri-Food Week (SIAW) returns for its third edition from 30 October to 2 November to showcase the latest innovations in sustainable food production in the region's agri-food ... |
| 29.05.2023 | From fugu to ikan buntal: Pufferfish has long roots in culture | James Bond had a close call with pufferfish in the 1957 novel From Russia With Love. Captain James Cook, too, had an unpleasant experience after eating its roe and liver, experiencing a prickling sensation that only subsided with “a vomit a... |
| 15.05.2023 | Singapore recalls baby puree and cereal rice products with excessive arsenic, advises against feeding items to children | SINGAPORE: The Singapore Food Agency (SFA) has ordered a recall of three infant products found to contain more than the maximum limit of arsenic stated in the Singapore Food Regulations.
The products are Wen’s Baby Cereal Puree Whitebait an... |
| 20.04.2023 | Making strides towards net zero in the garden city | For new buildings in Singapore, green is not just a colour – it’s a sustainability framework for the future.
By 2030, the Singapore Green Building Masterplan aims to achieve the goal of 80-80-80: To green 80 per cent of buildings, to see an... |
| 01.04.2023 | Can Singapore serve up the fittest red snapper? With scientists, this fish farmer's working on it | In partnership with the Singapore Food Agency
SINGAPORE: The open sea and genuineness of local fish farmers were just the tonic that former IT engineer Malcolm Ong needed 15 years ago.
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| 26.01.2023 | Where is China with protein alternative regulatory approvals? | Editor’s Note: Bits x Bites is China’s leading agrifoodtech venture capital firm with technology investments across the globe ranging from gene editing and drone-based imagery to biosynthesized ingredients and alternative proteins. This art... |
| 18.01.2023 | Brief: GOOD Meat set to significantly cut costs with Singapore’s approval of new cell meat growth material | California-based Eat Just’s cultivated meat division Good Meat has just received approval by the Singapore Food Agency (SFA) to use a new material in which to grow its cultivated meat products. Until now, the industry has largely relied on ... |
| 11.01.2023 | Data snapshot: Novel Farming Systems in APAC are growing far beyond leafy greens | Data Snapshot is a regular AFN feature in which we analyze agrifoodtech market investment data provided by our parent company, AgFunder.
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| 03.01.2023 | Cultivated Meat Regulation: The 10 Most Supportive Countries, From Funding To Policy | 8 Mins Read When it comes to cultivated meat, these ten governments are the most active in terms of funding, regulatory frameworks and research resources.
Cultivated meat is one of the key food solutions in our climate crisis-fighting arsen... |
| 25.11.2022 | Singapore Recalls Philippine-made 'Lemon Square Cheese Cake' Due to Excessive Levels of Sorbic Acid | Trisha Kae Andrada, Tech Times 25 November 2022, 08:11 am
The Singapore Food Agency (SFA) ordered a recall for a certain kind of packed cake as it was discovered to have a higher quantity of sorbic acid than is authorized.
The order was iss... |
| 19.11.2022 | Rasel Catering business operations suspended after almost 300 cases of food poisoning | SINGAPORE: Authorities have suspended the food business operations of caterer Rasel Catering following 284 reported cases of gastroenteritis by people who ate food prepared by the caterer.
The Ministry of Health (MOH) and the Singapore Food... |
| 14.11.2022 | Сингапурский подход: как маленькая страна возрождает земледелие на 1% сельхозугодий | Сингапур в четыре раза меньше Москвы (его площадь занимает всего 730 км²). Сельхозугодия занимают менее 1% земли, а доля агросектора в ВВП – мизерные 0,03%. Запасы воды здесь тоже ограничены. Чтобы накормить 6 млн своих жителей, страна импо... |
| 09.11.2022 | Data snapshot: Singapore alt-protein startups rule Innovative Foods in Asia-Pacific | Data Snapshot is a regular AFN feature in which we analyze agrifoodtech market investment data provided by our parent company, AgFunder.
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| 31.10.2022 | Solar Foods' Solein: Finnish Company Creates Food Out of Thin Air | Jace Dela Cruz, Tech Times 31 October 2022, 04:10 am
What if in the future we might find ourselves eating air?
This idea may seem absurd in every sense but it might be possible that we will be eating food that is not derived from plants or ... |
| 07.10.2022 | 20 food stall licensees caught flouting mask, spit guard requirements: SFA | SINGAPORE: Enforcement action has been taken against 20 food stall licensees for not complying with mask and spit guard requirements for food safety, the Singapore Food Agency (SFA) said on Friday (Oct 7).
From Sep 26 to Sep 30, SFA inspect... |
| 18.08.2022 | Singapore’s agritech vision hits speed bumps | Premium Content
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| 08.08.2022 | Bluu Seafood unveils its first lab-grown fish products and readies for regulators | Bluu Seafood, a German company developing “lab-grown” fish, is showcasing its first finished products as it prepares to begin the regulatory approval process for key markets in Asia, Europe and North America.
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| 13.06.2022 | Strengthening Singapore’s food security through agritech | As a land-scarce country with few natural resources, Singapore currently produces less than 10% of its food.
In 2019, the Singapore government launched a “30 by 30” plan, with the goal of building up the city-state’s capability and capacity... |
| 14.12.2021 | The National University Of Singapore Announces New Course Module Dedicated To Meat Alternatives | 3 Mins Read
“Introduction to Advances Meat Alternatives” is a graduate-level alt-protein module. It launches in January 2022 as the first of its kind in Southeast Asia. The module lasts 13 weeks and is run by the National University Of Sing... |
| 20.07.2021 | COVID-19 spike forces Singapore to close major seafood port | Singapore has announced the temporary closure of its primary seafood import hub, the Jurong Fishery Port (JFP), due to a COVID-19 cluster, forcing the city-state to switch to alternative supply routes to meet local demand.
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| 15.07.2021 | General Announcement::Press Release: KTL Global Undertakes Share Placement to Raise Approximately S$3.1 Million | KTL GLOBAL LIMITED
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KTL Global Undertakes Share Placement to Raise Approximately S$3.1 Million to Accelerate Growth of its Consumer-Centric Busine... |
| 30.04.2021 | Can 1% of Singapore's Land Feed Its Population?
Can 1% of Singapore's Land Feed Its Population? | (Bloomberg Opinion) -- From fish farms bobbing in the Straits of Johor to industrial warehouses and the rooftops of hotels downtown, urban farming is all the rage in Singapore. Covid-19 has given the country, which produces only a tiny frac... |
| 20.04.2021 | In another world first for Eat Just, its cell-cultured meat is now available for takeout | Don’t fancy cooking tonight? Too tired to head out to a restaurant? Feel like eating meat, but don’t want intensive animal farming on your conscience?
Singaporeans will be the first diners in the world able to answer ‘yes’ to all three ques... |
| 15.03.2021 | Plant-based whole egg startup Float Foods gets Temasek grant | Float Foods, a Singaporean startup that’s developing a plant-based egg substitute, has received an undisclosed amount of grant funding from the Temasek Foundation.
The Foundation is the nonprofit, philanthropic arm of Singapore sovereign in... |
| 18.02.2021 | Singapore launches $45m agritech fund to boost urban food production | The Singapore government will set aside S$60 million ($45.2 million) for the creation of a new fund to help farmers in the city-state harness technology that can boost domestic food production.
Presenting the country’s annual budget in parl... |
| 02.12.2020 | Singapore grants world’s first regulatory approval for ‘lab-grown’ meat | San Francisco’s Eat Just, which is developing a range of plant-based and ‘lab-grown’ alternative proteins, has received the world’s first regulatory approval to sell meat cultured from animal cells to consumers.
The Singapore Food Agency (S... |
| 25.11.2020 | Temasek plans dedicated agrifood unit; partners Singapore science agency on foodtech center | Temasek is setting up a dedicated agrifood vehicle to drive and manage investment into food and agriculture-related businesses, including tech startups.
The Singapore sovereign fund’s managing director for agribusiness, Anuj Maheshwari, tol... |
| 21.10.2020 | Elysabeth Alfano: Is VegTech an Issue of National Security? | According to the United Nations, the world population is going from 7.6 billion people on the planet to roughly 9.8 billion people by 2050. However, with the almost 30% increase in people, we’re not getting more land and we’re not getting m... |
| 04.08.2020 | Noroo wants to power Asia’s smallholders and vertical farmers with its ‘seed to table’ model | South Korean chemicals company Noroo Holdings has unveiled its new global agri-solutions hub in Singapore, which will become the center of its agribusiness operations and its efforts in agritech and alt-protein.
Since incorporating in the c... |
| 16.07.2020 | Experts discuss building self-sufficient aquaculture in Singapore | Singapore has set the goal of increasing its self-sufficiency in food production from 10 percent to 30 percent by 2030 to address food security amidst climate change.
Spending on food in Asia is expected to double to USD 8 trillion (EUR 6.8... |
| 29.06.2020 | Singapore government commits $40m to growing ag and aquaculture startups | Enterprise Singapore, the city-state’s startup agency, is earmarking S$55 million ($39.5 million) to help accelerate “promising” agriculture and aquaculture companies.
Koh Poh Koon, the country’s senior minister for trade and industry, anno... |
| 21.05.2020 | Singapore food and housing agencies to rent out public rooftops for urban farms | The Singapore Food Agency (SFA) has launched a public tender to lease out the rooftops of public buildings for urban farming in the city-state.
Rooftops of nine multi-storey car parks managed by the Housing & Development Board (HDB) – S... |
| 16.05.2020 | GROW launches Singapore Food Bowl to build a resilient, decentralized agrifood system | GROW – the Southeast Asian agrifoodtech accelerator by AgFunder – is inviting startups from across the Asia-Pacific region to apply for its new program focused on food security: Singapore Food Bowl.
With the initial support of Enterprise Si... |
| 09.04.2020 | Amid strained supply chains, Singapore launches $21m grant program to boost local production | The Singapore Food Agency (SFA) is launching a S$30 million ($21 million) grant to boost the country’s agrifood industry, as the Covid-19 pandemic lays bare the fragilities in Southeast Asia’s food supply chain.
The fund is dubbed ’30×30 Ex... |
| 03.10.2019 | How to combat food safety concerns in Asia | Editor’s note: Lim Fang How is regional director for Southeast Asia at Zebra Technologies. The NASDAQ-listed company empowers the front line of business in retail/e-commerce, manufacturing, transportation and logistics, healthcare and other... |
| - | Singapore tightens restrictions again as Covid cases rise | Singapore’s government on Tuesday said it will again tighten Covid-19 measures, including a ban on dining at food establishments, as new cases continue to rise.
The restrictions will go into effect from Thursday, July 22 through to Aug. 18.... |
| - | Is it okay to put hot food inside a fridge? And what happens when you overload the freezer? | Not counting your splurge on fancy gadgets, the family refrigerator is probably one of the most expensive items in your kitchen: About S$1,436 on average for a medium-sized model, or one with a capacity of 300 litres to 400 litres, accordin... |
| - | 7 tips on how to start your own business – from Singapore women who succeeded | Elynn Teo began her entrepreneurial journey in the middle of the pandemic. “When the pandemic hit, some people asked me if I was still serious about leaving my job and it did occur to me to rethink if I was making the right decision,” she t... |
| - | Singapore imports more than 90% of its food. Here’s how it’s dealing with rising food inflation | Singapore is known for its variety of street food and local cuisines, but many may not know it faces a persistent challenge — food security.
As a small island nation, Singapore lacks natural resources. It imports more than 90% of its food f... |
