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.
Two major foodborne outbreaks have recently been highlighted at a European conference on infectious diseases.
Presentations at the European Scientific Conference on Applied Infectious Disease Epidemiology (ESCAIDE) covered an E.
Three E. coli outbreaks were reported in England earlier this year with two linked to dairy farms.
The Animal and Plant Health Agency (APHA) helped the UK Health Security Agency
Researchers have found that Salmonella caused the most outbreaks linked to meat products in China over a 15-year period.
From 2002 to 2017, China recorded 2,815 outbreaks caused
Sweden has noted an increase in foodborne outbreaks and illnesses in 2021 but levels were still below pre-COVID-19 pandemic figures.
The number of outbreaks reported to the Swedish
Scientists have developed formal risk assessment models for Listeria monocytogenes in certain foods.
The models need to be tested and reviewed before being made public, said experts at a meeting
Seven new trade issues discussed at the latest World Trade Organization (WTO) meeting on food safety involved the European Union.
Countries raised 52 specific trade concerns (STCs), 10 of them
The number of food safety incidents involving an international network has gone up in the third quarter of this year compared to the previous three months.
The International Food Safety
Almost 27,000 tons of food and 15 million liters of beverages have been seized in operations focused on counterfeit food and drink.
Operation Opson XI was led in Europe
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,
