Officials in Latvia are investigating 40 Salmonella and Shiga toxin-producing E. coli illnesses with mostly children affected.
A total of 36 children and four employees of educational institutions are ill, according to the Latvian Centre
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An agreement between the U.S. Department of Commerce and Mexican tomato growers is now in effect. It means the U.S. border is again open to Mexico’s $2 billion tomato export market.
While just about everyone
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Astrochef LLC of Rockwall, TX, is recalling 11,475 pounds of Marie Callender’s frozen chicken pub style entrees that are labeled as beef pub style entrees for misbranding and because they contain soy, which is not
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Philadelphia officials have added more people to the patient list in an E. coli outbreak that is associated with “shared restaurant exposure.”
Earlier this month the Philadelphia Department of Public Health reported the outbreak but
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USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Service isn’t changing the way it deals with non-ambulatory disabled pigs.
An animal activist organization, Farm Sanctuary, had petitioned FSIS to have non-ambulatory disabled pigs (NADs) immediately condemned and “promptly
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Almost 40 people fell ill with norovirus in August in a region of Ireland. Authorities say some were sickened by contaminated food.
Data from the Health Protection Surveillance Centre’s (HPSC) weekly outbreak report shows 36
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USDA’s Mindy Brashears submitted this column to Food Safety News this week.
In the world of food safety, 1993 was a watershed moment. Early that year, hundreds of people became ill and four children
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The United States was in the top three countries of origin for notifications in the European Rapid Alert System for Food and Feed (RASFF) portal last year.
The U.S. is behind only Turkey and China,
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Authorities in an Australian state have linked eight Hepatitis A patients to imported clams.
The New South Wales (NSW) Food Authority advised consumers who bought salted or pickled clams from Koryo Food Co. or Byul
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Consumer complaints spurred the recall of about 495 pounds of frozen ready-to-eat chicken products that contain wheat, a known allergen that was not declared on the finished product label, according to the U.S. Department of
The best way to keep the lawyers out of it is to keep the children safe.
Yesterday the Minnesota Department of Health (MDH) reported that it is investigation an outbreak of E. coli O157
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