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.
A woman who lost her baby boy to the South African listeriosis outbreak has said the death left a void in her life.
Innocentia Phaahla was pregnant at the time
Danish officials have solved a Listeria outbreak linked to hummus that first affected people in 2016.
Statens Serum Institut (SSI), Fødevarestyrelsen (Danish Veterinary and Food Administration) and the National Food
Beef and pork from Austria that is suspected to be unfit to eat has been distributed to 10 other countries.
Austrian authorities searched a slaughterhouse in Styria in late October
A national outbreak of Salmonella in Sweden has been linked to eating a brand of crayfish.
Folkhälsomyndigheten (Public Health Agency of Sweden) reported the probable source of infection in an
Tiger Brands is considering selling its processed meats business that was identified as the source of the South African Listeria outbreak in 2017 and 2018.
The company said as part
More than 30 people are sick in Sweden and several other European countries from a rare strain of Salmonella. Officials will not say what other countries are involved or how
A survivor of the South African Listeria outbreak has described the ordeal as extremely painful and emotionally traumatic.
Gina Moyo was hospitalized for eight days in November 2017. She was
Researchers from the Max Planck Institute have found out more about how vibrio spreads in the environment.
Vibrio parahaemolyticus causes acute gastroenteritis in humans and is the leading cause for
The Food Standards Agency is currently more concerned about issues relating to food standards than hygiene, according to the authority’s chief executive.
Emily Miles, chief executive of the Food
The problem of Salmonella contaminated poultry meat from Thailand detected at the European border is likely to continue, according to a report.
DG Sante, the European Commission’s unit for
International investigations have found two outbreaks of illness in Uganda were likely caused by food aid contaminated with tropane alkaloids.
Five people died and about 300 fell sick after eating
The number of people ill in a Salmonella outbreak linked to a brand of frozen microwave meals in Australia has jumped to 46.
Public health investigations have found that sick
