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.
E. coli infections continued to climb in Switzerland in 2019, according to the country’s surveillance report on zoonoses and outbreaks of food poisoning.
The most common zoonoses were again
Public health officials in Denmark are looking into three outbreaks that have sickened almost 50 people with one caused by Hepatitis A and two due to rare strains of Salmonella.
Public Health England is investigating a spike in reports of Shiga toxin-producing E. coli (STEC) infections this month.
Potential sources of the increase in E. coli O157 cases are not
Public health officials in Sweden have noted an increase in the number of people falling ill with Campylobacter infections this month.
The rise coincides with an increase in Campylobacter in
A man who put shards of metal in baby food jars in the United Kingdom has been found guilty of blackmail and contaminating goods.
Nigel Wright began threatening supermarket chain
Testing of chicken nuggets as part of an outbreak investigation has revealed a different strain of Salmonella.
Public Health England (PHE) and the Food Standards Agency (FSA) are investigating a
Public Health England has been scrapped with England to get a new public health authority.
Health Secretary Matt Hancock has announced a new agency called the National Institute for Health
Tiger Brands is to sell its processed meats division, which includes the business implicated in the Listeria outbreak in South Africa in 2017 and 2018.
The transaction includes two separate
Remote food safety assessments are useful but cannot replace a physical inspection, according to the Food Standards Agency.
Virtual food hygiene inspections are being used in the United Kingdom but
A parliamentary inquiry into the closure of an Australian catering business has found the council failed in its role as a regulator.
I Cook Foods, which provided pre-packed meals to
An audit report in an Australian state has found many inspections of food businesses were overdue, recordkeeping was poor, and follow-up and enforcement were not always completed or consistent.
The
The source of infection was not found for three of four Listeria outbreaks in England in 2018.
The one which was solved was an international outbreak that involved 12 cases
