The Food and Drug Administration uses import alerts to enforce U.S. food safety regulations for food from foreign countries. The agency updates and modifies the alerts as needed.
Recent modifications to FDA’s import alerts, as
Continue Reading Cantaloupes, seafood top list of enforcement modifications
Researchers have looked at the types of Listeria monocytogenes strains isolated from food and people during a 10-year period in Chile.
Results of tests show Listeria monocytogenes strains isolated from 2008 to 2017 in the
Continue Reading Study summarizes decade of surveillance for Listeria in Chile
An additional 60 days is available for public comments on a petition seeking to declare 31 Salmonella strains as adulterants in meat and poultry.
The USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Service added the time to
Continue Reading Comments on Salmonella as adulterant petition will be accepted for 60 more days
Researchers in Scotland have increased knowledge of non-O157 Shiga toxin-producing E. coli (STEC) in the country as part of work on severity of illness caused by these strains.
Food Standards Scotland commissioned a study to
Continue Reading Scottish study boosts understanding of non-O157 STEC
Salmonella prevalence among Sweden’s dairy cattle herds is low but varies across the country, according to a study.
In late 2019, the National Veterinary Institute (SVA) and Swedish Board of Agriculture (Jordbruksverket), conducted an anonymous
Continue Reading Low prevalence of Salmonella in Sweden’s dairy herds
The proportion of Listeria infections where a food source is identified is very small but increasing, according to researchers who looked at a 30-year period in England and Wales.
Between 1981 and 2015, there were
Continue Reading Amount of food-attributed Listeria cases rising but still low
A large proportion of Campylobacter infections are not sporadic and can be linked to outbreaks, according to a study in Denmark.
Campylobacter outbreaks are rarely reported, which may reflect limitations of surveillance testing as molecular
Continue Reading Danish research shows Campylobacter infections often part of outbreaks
The total burden from foodborne illness was about £9 billion ($11.2 billion) in 2018 in the United Kingdom, according to a new report.
Based on 2018 figures of 2.4 million foodborne cases per year, the
Continue Reading UK foodborne illness burden estimated at £9 billion
The annual healthcare cost for Campylobacter infections in Scotland is £3 million ($3.9 million), according to recently released research by Health Protection Scotland.
The study on Campylobacter, which is the main cause of bacterial food
Continue Reading Campylobacter infections cost £3m a year in Scotland
Top FDA administrators say the agency’s new plan for the safety of leafy greens specifically addresses problems, but a key part of the conversation is getting little more than lip service according to some observers.
Continue Reading FDA leafy greens safety plan skimpy on details about feedlot contamination
