World Food Safety Day 2024
On 7 June, food safety will once again take centre stage. To mark the World Food Day, this year the organisers are raising awareness of the need to prepare for sudden and unexpected events.
Welcome to the website of the Department of Digital Food Science!
The Department started its work as the Digital Food Institute (DFI) on April 1, 2020 at the University of Veterinary Medicine in Budapest, which is one of the most important places for the training of food safety professionals in Hungary. The unit integrates food chain safety data analysis and research along the whole food chain and takes networking in this area to a new level. We aim to be an internationally recognized hub of experts and researchers in the field of food chain safety data analysis.
On 7 June, food safety will once again take centre stage. To mark the World Food Day, this year the organisers are raising awareness of the need to prepare for sudden and unexpected events.
The 43rd FAO/WHO Codex Alimentarius Committee of Analytical and Sampling Methods (CCMAS) meeting took place in a hybrid framework this year from 13-18 May 2024.
Dr. Zsuzsa Farkas participated at the symposium 'Modern inspections with new technology' organised by the Netherlands Food and Consumer Product Safety Authority (NVWA) in The Hague at the end of February.
The European Scientific Conference on the Epidemiology of Applied Infectious Diseases (ESCAIDE) - the ECDC's annual conference - will be held as a hybrid event in Stockholm, 20-22 November 2024.
In a US study published in February 2024, attention was drawn to the high presence of the pesticide chlormequat in urine samples.
Consumers worldwide are increasingly seeking healthier lifestyles and diets, leading to a growing demand for food products that contain fewer or no synthetic ingredients at all. Herbal extracts serve as a valuable source of biologically active components, however, they can also affect the characteristics of food products in both positive and negative ways.
Ethylene oxide is a fungicide and insecticide, also used for surface disinfection (for its antimicrobial effect). Its use as plant protection product is prohibited in the EU, the reason being that the chemical is carcinogenic, mutagenic and reprotoxic (teratogenic).
The detection of mono-n-hexyl phthalate (MnHexP) in urine samples has raised significant concerns regarding its potential health and environmental implications.
As the traditional cocoa growing areas along the Equator are threatened by climate change, alternative sources of cocoa are needed.