Prior to reporting for Food Safety News, Whitworth worked for William Reed as editor of Food Quality News before becoming food safety editor for Food Navigator. He was named in the Top 40 Food Safety Professionals Under 40 in 2023.
Diseases including foodborne infections declined after public health measures were introduced because of the coronavirus pandemic, according to a preliminary analysis in Australia.
Researchers have analyzed Nationally Notifiable Diseases Surveillance
Supermarket chain Asda has reported the worst Campylobacter in chicken findings of the top nine retailers in the United Kingdom in the latest set of testing results.
In the third
A comment period has been launched in England regarding gene editing of crops and livestock.
The plans were announced by Environment Secretary George Eustice at the virtual Oxford Farming Conference.
Experts have helped develop risk-based approaches to control two parasites in meat, requiring the re-evaluation of traditional practices and the assessment of regulatory and industry resources.
The Food and Agriculture
Opinion
Predictions are hard enough during normal times and even though there are several vaccines for Coronavirus, 2021 isn’t going to be the average year.
I do feel safe
An EU-funded project aiming to boost food safety for infants in the European Union and China has begun.
The Safe Food for Infants in the EU and China (SAFFI) project
Researchers have estimated the burden of disease from certain foodborne pathogens in the Netherlands in 2019.
About 41 percent of the foodborne burden was associated with meat such as poultry,
The United Kingdom and European Union have agreed on a trade deal just days before the end of the transition period; countries in UK will be on their own.
People
A multi-year Listeria outbreak in Switzerland that killed 10 people was linked to pasteurized cheese products, according to a study.
The incident highlights the risk for recontamination of cheese during
Opinion
This year has been dominated by the global coronavirus pandemic but it also held many other surprises such as contaminated beer in Brazil, pesticide residues in seeds from India,
Two different Salmonella outbreaks have been reported in Finland with one linked to zucchini from Spain.
The first outbreak in the Finnish city of Rovaniemi affected 20 people but a
French health officials have published a report on a 2019 E. coli outbreak linked to raw milk cheese.
It was the third outbreak linked to raw milk cheese in the
