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.
The United States raised four new issues at a meeting of the World Trade Organization (WTO) committee on food safety and animal and plant health this past month.
The Committee
Authorities in Ireland and New Zealand have issued warnings about consumption of collected shellfish in the past week.
The Marine Institute in Ireland detected amounts of naturally occurring compounds in
Five children needed hospital treatment in an Australian state as part of a Salmonella outbreak linked to backyard poultry.
Queensland Health is investigating Salmonella Typhimurium infections predominantly among young children
The source of a national Yersinia outbreak in recent weeks in Norway that affected 23 people is believed to have been salad with spinach or baby spinach.
The Norwegian Institute
Meat from backyard pigs was the source of a trichinellosis outbreak in France and Serbia in 2017.
Three patients were exposed in Serbia and took pork back to France where
Half of people worried about food affordability have eaten cooked meats and bagged salad past their use by dates, according to a Food Standards Agency survey monitoring behavior during the
Authorities in an Australian state are investigating an outbreak of Salmonella linked to contact with or consumption of eggs from backyard chickens.
The Victorian Department of Health and Human Services
France has identified its first outbreak of tick-borne encephalitis from consumption of raw milk products, with more than 40 people affected.
The infections are linked to eating a brand of
Eating raw mussels from one region has been linked to several cases of vibriosis in New Zealand.
The Ministry of Primary Industries (MPI) is aware of eight confirmed cases of
Results of checks at the border on food by Belgian and Swiss authorities and French controls on seafood products have revealed varying levels of non-compliance.
In Belgium, the Federal Agency
The number of deaths linked to a Listeria outbreak from meat products in 2019 has doubled.
It had been thought 21 people were infected with Listeria monocytogenes in the Netherlands
The lack of skills and training of staff working in pig slaughtering has been highlighted as a serious welfare concern by the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA).
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