U.S. Food and Drug Administration Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition Food Safety Alerts Oriental Packing Co. Inc. Issues Alert On Lead In Curry Powder 08/18/2016 08:12 PM EDT Oriental Packing Co., Inc., Miami, Florida is recalling approximately 377,000 lbs. of the following blended seasoning curry products because it is contaminated with lead. Lead…
Basseterre, St. Kitts – The St. Kitts and Nevis Bureau of Standards in an update to its Public Advisory sent on July 23, 2016 wishes to inform the general public that corrective measures were swiftly taken at the Island Purified Water production plant at the Newton Ground Location. The corrective measures included, among other things, halting production and…
Basseterre, St. Kitts – The St. Kitts and Nevis Bureau of Standards in its latest round of testing of bottled water in St. Kitts and Nevis found that samples taken from Island Purified Water failed the necessary testing. As a result, the Department of Environmental Health has initiated a programme to remove from consumption all…
Joint Statement by Xiao Jianhua, Chair IAF, and Pete Unger, Chair ILAC Xiao Jianhua Pete Unger World Accreditation Day 2016 (#WAD2016) Accreditation: A global tool to support Public Policy World Accreditation Day 2016 focuses on the support accreditation delivers as a tool for all areas in the public sector – national and local government, regulators. Accreditation is…
Basseterre, St. Kitts – The St. Kitts and Nevis Bureau of Standards (SKNBS) is pleased to announce the launch of its first website at www.sknbs.org. The SKNBS has the major responsibility of protecting the environment, health and safety of consumers. Its activities also focus on preparing, promoting and generally adopting standards on a…
Basseterre, St. Kitts – The St. Kitts and Nevis Bureau of Standards (SKNBS) is aware of the voluntary recalls of Bumble Bee and Chicken of the Sea Tuna Products in the United States of America (USA) on March 16 and 17, respectively. Bumble Bee Foods, LLC is voluntarily recalling 31,579 cases of 5oz Bumble Bee…
Basseterre, St. Kitts, 2015-10-14 – The St. Kitts and Nevis Bureau of Standards of the Ministry of International Trade, Industry, Commerce and Consumer Affairs will join with the International Standards Community in celebrating World Standards Day, on 14th October 2015.The theme for this year is “Standards –the world’s common language .“ World Standards Day is…
Basseterre, St. Kitts – The St. Kitts and Nevis Bureau of Standards (SKNBS), within the Ministry of International Trade, Industry, Commerce and Consumer Affairs, hosted over 20 persons from the CARIFORUM member states from July 7 to 12, 2014. The “Setting National Standardization Strategies” training course held at the Bird Rock Beach Hotel, was funded…
On July 7, 2015, the St. Kitts and Nevis Bureau of Standards (SKNBS) hosted a National Dialogue on Agriculture with funding provided by the German Cooperation, implemented by the German Metrology Institute (PTB). The National Dialogue takes quite a bit of planning to bring together public and private sector with the main Quality Infrastructure organisations…
[unordered_list style=”bullet”] Food safety and security are important because every year millions of people become sick from food and waterborne diseases. Occurrences of such diseases can easily escalate to a food emergency situation which could adversely impact economies and livelihoods through reduced availability and consumption, closure of export markets and the exorbitant cost of…
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