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.
TORONTO – Monitoring of related Listeria infections over multiple years has seen more than 80 cases and a dozen deaths, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Michael Vasser,
TORONTO – Looking into the root cause of incidents can help efforts to prevent future issues, according to recent presentations by the new International Association for Food Protection (IAFP) president.
Tim
The number of outbreaks and people sick in them was higher in 2022 than the year before, according to the Belgian food agency.
Belgium recorded 830 outbreaks in 2022 compared
The UK has lifted reinforced inspections on meat products from Brazil after analyzing the country’s control system.
The decision covers consignments of beef, poultry, and meat products and preparations
Nearly 100 people have fallen sick in a Salmonella outbreak involving multiple countries, including the United States.
From August 2022 to mid-July 2023, 92 cases of Salmonella Senftenberg have been
Food safety authorities covering England, Wales and Scotland have opened a comment period on the rates of checks for selected food and feed of non-animal origin from certain countries.
Proposed
The European Commission is to lift import restrictions for food from Japan following the accident at the Fukushima nuclear power station in 2011.
Ursula von der Leyen, president of the
TORONTO — Two sessions at the International Association for Food Protection (IAFP) conference dealt with the complexities of Listeria and performance standards.
Sanjay Gummalla, from the American Frozen Food Institute (AFFI)
TORONTO – Using crowdsourced data for foodborne outbreak investigations can work but poses a number of challenges, according to a session at the International Association for Food Protection (IAFP) conference.
Jennifer
Researchers in Canada have detailed the first known outbreak of E. coli O157 associated with kimchi outside of East Asia.
Fourteen Shiga-toxin-producing E. coli (STEC) O157 cases were identified in
Another three people have been arrested in the second phase of an investigation into expired food being reintroduced into the supply chain.
Measures were taken against the trio this month.
TORONTO — Food safety professionals were encouraged to have a “stocktaking moment” during the opening session of the International Association for Food Protection (IAFP) symposium here.
Delivering the Ivan Parkin lecture,
