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.
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
At least 90 people have been affected and three have died in a major Listeria outbreak in Italy.
The Ministry of Health (Ministero della Salute) said the most recent patient
The number of Listeria infections fell in 2020 in England and Wales, according to recently released data.
In total, 124 cases of listeriosis were reported in England and Wales in
The Food Standards Agency (FSA) has found some people are taking food safety risks because of money pressures and rising energy costs.
Data comes from a consumer survey of 2,
The number of children who suffered a potentially fatal complication of E. coli infection in France declined in 2021.
Hemolytic uremic syndrome (HUS) is a type of kidney failure that
Multiple interventions are needed to control Salmonella in chickens raised for human consumption, according to scientists.
Findings come from a Joint FAO/WHO Expert Meeting on Microbial Risk Assessment (JEMRA)
Experts are to meet in Singapore next month to talk about the safety of cell-based food.
The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and World Health Organization
Swedish officials are investigating a recent increase in reported cases of Cryptosporidium.
A total of 61 people have been confirmed as being infected by the same certain type of Cryptosporidium
The European Commission has put maximum levels on three additives in tuna to tackle food fraud. The excessive levels can expose consumers to the risk of histamine, also known as
