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 study has found an association between violations of food safety legislation and a company’s weak financial situation.
The work investigated the link between the financial situation of Finnish
According to the country’s food agency, allergens in food were the main reason for recalls in New Zealand in 2023.
Of 70 consumer-level recalls in 2023, 26 were
The European Commission has opened a comment period as part of plans to change the current set-up and establish EU reference laboratories (EURLs) in public health.
The call for
According to a study, food allergen information given online can be lacking or provided in different formats.
Researchers evaluated the accuracy and compliance of information and labeling of substances or
Public health officials in Finland are monitoring an increase in Yersinia infections seen so far in 2024.
168 Yersinia enterocolitica cases have been reported to the Infectious Disease Register compared
More than 2,000 consumer product recalls were issued in France in 2023, according to official figures.
Data from RappelConso shows 2,023 recalls in 2023 compared to 2,441
Twenty people have fallen sick, and five have died in a Listeria outbreak linked to fish that has been ongoing since 2019.
Most cases have been recorded in Denmark, but
Higher fridge temperatures in the homes of older people could be putting them at greater risk of Listeria infection, according to a study.
Researchers looked at the temperatures of domestic
Data showing the scale of pesticide residues on food have been published by the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA).
110,829 food samples were collected in the European Union in
The number of Shiga toxin-producing E. coli (STEC) O157 infections remained steady but non-O157 cases increased in England in 2021 according to recently released data.
Overall, 1,151
The number of Salmonella cases in England has returned to pre-COVID-19 pandemic levels and 11 outbreaks were reported in 2022.
Salmonella Enteritidis went back to being the most
Scientists in Europe have updated the knowledge around parasites in fish based on available surveillance data.
The European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) scientific opinion also evaluated methods for detecting and
