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 number of foodborne outbreaks in Norway declined slightly this past year from 2018, according to the country’s public health agency.
In 2019, 223 outbreaks from all sources were
An increase in hepatitis A infections in a Chinese province earlier this year has been attributed to eating raw or undercooked seafood.
In February 2020, there was a 138 percent
Authorities in New Zealand are looking into three recent Listeria cases to see if they are linked and to find a source of the infections.
While investigations are underway to
More than $40 million worth of potentially dangerous food and drink has been seized in an operation coordinated by Europol and Interpol.
Operation Opson IX dismantled 19 organized crime groups
Researchers have developed a device that detects low concentrations of methanol in alcoholic beverages.
Swiss experts have created and tested a portable device paired with a smartphone app that can
The European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) is to host a virtual meeting in October on climate change.
Scientists led by EFSA have developed a way to judge possible effects of
Spanish scientists have proposed additional requirements for the marketing of raw milk but have not gone as far as to ban it.
European regulation allows unpasteurized milk for direct human
Cross contamination and temperature abuse are factors that played a role in an outbreak of Salmonella in Hong Kong earlier this year.
In May, the Centre for Health Protection (CHP)
Researchers have estimated there are 180 deaths per year in the United Kingdom caused by foodborne diseases from 11 pathogens.
The Food Standards Agency (FSA) estimates that about 2.4
The European Commission has asked member states to look into the suspected illegal trade of bivalve mollusks that has caused foodborne outbreaks.
At a Food Fraud Network meeting in May,
Andalusian authorities have allocated €100,000 (U.S. $113,000) for research to learn from the region’s Listeria outbreak in 2019. The project will focus on the epidemiological, microbiological
At least two people have died in a Listeria outbreak linked to chilled smoked trout fillets in the Netherlands.
All six sick people have been hospitalized and two died from
