SFA/Singapore Food Agency

Is there really a ‘three-seconds rule’ when it comes to dropped food?

While tables in hawker centres and food courts are cleaned regularly, they are not sanitised to the same standard as plates or food preparation surfaces.

Locally grown vegetables from at least 3 S’pore farms to be taken off FairPrice shelves

The decision highlights the tussle between providing customers with the best value for money products, and the national effort to support local growers.

Jurong Marine Cold Storage to suspend ice-making, cold store ops after ammonia leak on its premises

Workers from Jurong Marine Cold Storage that operates at 11 Jurong Fishery Port Road transporting ice from a supplier into vehicles waiting near their factory.

French bakery Paul’s Paragon outlet suspended by SFA till July 6 after cockroach infestation

Paul Singapore had accumulated 12 demerit points within a 12-month period for failing to keep the licensed premises free of cockroach infestation.

‘C’mon, please don’t do this’: SFA, in response to diner appearing to eat off hawker centre table

SFA said once food is dropped on an unclean tabletop, the surface of the food item would have been contaminated by bacteria.

Pickled pearl garlic product recalled over excessive levels of sulphur dioxide

The jars of Pickled Pearl Garlic (230g) originate from Thailand and are imported by Sinhua Hock Kee Trading.

Planned centre will research better fish feed to help Singapore farms increase yield.

Senior Minister of State for Sustainability and the Environment Janil Puthucheary said the growth of aquaculture must increasingly be driven by improving productivity through better inputs.

Pig blood products return to some Singapore restaurants after nearly three decades

Animal blood food products had been prohibited in Singapore since the 1999 Nipah virus outbreak that killed an abattoir worker in the Republic.

Singapore farms can apply to diversify to meet production targets from Sept 1: SFA

Farms in Singapore will be given the flexibility to grow other kinds of food to meet their annual production targets from Sept 1.

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