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.
An assessment of food fraud covering four sectors in several countries has been published by the Nordic Council of Ministers.
In 2018, a project was funded to examine the threats
A deadly Listeria outbreak in the United Kingdom has been linked to one company but product testing has only found low levels of contamination.
Food Standards Scotland (FSS) and the
Health officials in Australia are warning about the dangers of having large amounts of poppy seeds after almost 20 people fell sick.
Nineteen people have gone to emergency departments across
A multi-country Shigella outbreak in Europe has been linked to stays at some hotels in Cape Verde.
Confirmed Shigella sonnei cases have been reported in the Netherlands, Denmark, France, Germany,
A brand of fish cakes has been traced to a Listeria outbreak in Denmark in which one person died.
From mid-August to October, the Statens Serum Institut (SSI) recorded seven
There is a low risk to the public from edible insects sold in the United Kingdom, according to a Food Standards Agency (FSA) assessment.
The risk assessment looked at allergens,
The number of foodborne infections went up in the Netherlands in 2021 but is still below pre-Coronavirus levels, according to a new report.
The Zoonoses Report is published annually by
New Zealand has reported foodborne infection and outbreak figures for 2021 with statistics still affected by a coronavirus.
In 2021, the COVID-19 pandemic and public health measures taken to control
Six people in Australia were part of a hepatitis A outbreak this past year after eating dates from Jordan, according to a study.
Researchers said it was the first known
The amount of foodborne outbreaks reported in Germany has continued to fall, according to the latest figures.
In 2021, the Robert Koch-Institut (RKI) and Federal Office of Consumer Protection and
A Listeria outbreak in Spain that sickened more than 200 people in 2019 and killed three was caused by stuffed pork, according to a recently published study.
It was the
A Salmonella contamination incident cost candy producer Barry Callebaut $77 million, according to the company’s full-year results.
The impact of the problem was CHF 76.9 million Swiss Francs
