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.
More than 30 harvest sites were closed over a two month period in France as part of outbreaks linked to eating oysters, according to recently released data.
Because of confirmed
Foodborne bacterial infections are becoming harder to treat, according to a report on antimicrobial resistance from EFSA and ECDC.
Salmonella and Campylobacter are increasingly resistant to ciprofloxacin, one of the
A Salmonella outbreak initially reported in France linked to a brand of raw milk cheese has affected at least one other country.
Thirteen people in France have been infected with
A woman who was hospitalized for two months in the Listeria outbreak in South Africa has shared how illness changed her perspective on life.
Beulah Rhode (Roberts) started experiencing flu-like
Researchers have called for increased awareness to reduce the risk of Campylobacter outbreaks linked to incorrectly cooked chicken liver dishes.
Communication from food safety and public health authorities may be
Spanish authorities have issued a warning about pizzas and pizza bases made in a municipality of Zaragoza and sold online due to potential food safety concerns.
The Spanish Agency for
Australian authorities have opened a comment period on a review of food safety management tools for the foodservice and retail sector.
Food Standards Australia New Zealand (FSANZ) has released a
A Salmonella outbreak linked to horse meat from Romania sickened 25 people in France this past year, according to a new report.
Eleven cases were men and 14 were women.
A South African woman who was temporarily paralyzed after being diagnosed with listeriosis has described how she doesn’t recognize the person staring back in the mirror.
Petra Bischoff was
There has been a decline of antimicrobial-resistant E. coli but not Campylobacter in chicken based on surveys by the Food Standards Agency (FSA).
Two annual surveys tested fresh chicken sold
Insights into consumer attitudes about food safety in five countries have been published by the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA).
Findings come from data collected in November 2019 in Albania,
Denmark recorded its highest number of Campylobacter infections ever in 2019, according to a report by the Statens Serum Institut.
Campylobacter remains the bacterium that most frequently causes gastrointestinal infection
