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IAEA details food safety work in Uganda and Costa Rica

The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) has marked World Food Safety Day this month by highlighting food safety efforts in Uganda and Costa Rica. The IAEA and the United Nation’

By News Desk

/ 11 Jun 2020

IAEA details food safety work in Uganda and Costa Rica

Asda and Tesco’s chicken Campylobacter results above FSA target

The mega-supermarket chain Tesco has reported 9 percent of chickens tested in the first quarter this year had the highest level of Campylobacter contamination while Asda recorded 9.2 percent.

By Joe Whitworth

/ 11 Jun 2020

Asda and Tesco’s chicken Campylobacter results above FSA target

WHO: Unsafe food continues to affect millions in Europe

The European region cannot afford to lose focus on other health threats during the coronavirus outbreak, according to the World Health Organization (WHO). Officials from the WHO’s Regional Office

By Joe Whitworth

/ 10 Jun 2020

WHO: Unsafe food continues to affect millions in Europe

Appellate review of Arkansas’s new “cause of action” is underway in St. Louis

Animal activists recently took their first shot at the innovative Arkansas law to secure animal agriculture and pretty wildly missed the target. Judge “Jay” Moody dismissed in its entirety the

By Dan Flynn

/ 10 Jun 2020

Appellate review of Arkansas’s new “cause of action” is underway in St. Louis

Campylobacter outbreak linked to milk sickens more than 100

More than 100 people are sick in a Campylobacter outbreak in Denmark linked to a local dairy. The Danish Veterinary and Food Administration (Fødevarestyrelsen), DTU Food Institute and Statens Serum

By Joe Whitworth

/ 10 Jun 2020

Campylobacter outbreak linked to milk sickens more than 100

University of Nebraska-Lincoln sends hand sanitizer to USDA as COVID-19 cases soar in meat industry

Demand for fresh meat and poultry has not diminished but, because of COVID-19 outbreaks in facilities across the U.S., meat processing plants are struggling to keep up. In an

By News Desk

/ 10 Jun 2020

University of Nebraska-Lincoln sends hand sanitizer to USDA as COVID-19 cases soar in meat industry

CDC says outbreak traced to imported mushrooms appears to be over

Federal officials say a three-year Listeria outbreak caused by mushrooms imported from the Republic of Korea appears to be over. The implicated enoki mushrooms from H&C Food Inc.

By News Desk

/ 9 Jun 2020

CDC says outbreak traced to imported mushrooms appears to be over

Herbicides purchased for this planting season and ready for the field are now illegal

Just as it was looking like American agriculture was going to survive the pandemic and planting was turning out successful, rural areas learned they were losing the weedkiller dicamba to

By Dan Flynn

/ 9 Jun 2020

Herbicides purchased for this planting season and ready for the field are now illegal

Australia sees decline in Campylobacter and Salmonella

Rates of Campylobacter and Salmonella infections in Australia have almost halved since the lockdown because of the Coronavirus pandemic that began in March. The Food Safety Information Council revealed that

By News Desk

/ 9 Jun 2020

Australia sees decline in Campylobacter and Salmonella

Mom was right about not touching slime; researchers looking at pathogens in food facilities

New research underway seeks to determine how and where bacteria hide in food processing plants so that they can be eliminated, to the benefit of public health and the bottom

By Coral Beach

/ 9 Jun 2020

Mom was right about not touching slime; researchers looking at pathogens in food facilities

Ciguatera cases linked to imported fish in New Zealand

Five people from two households in New Zealand became ill with ciguatera poisoning after eating fish imported from Fiji earlier this year. The outbreak in Christchurch affected three males of

By Joe Whitworth

/ 9 Jun 2020

Ciguatera cases linked to imported fish in New Zealand

Bill Marler’s last word (or maybe not) on the Salmonella petition

Bill Marler is getting the last word on the petition he filed with USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) in January, which is on behalf of Rick Schiller,

By Dan Flynn

/ 8 Jun 2020

Bill Marler’s last word (or maybe not) on the Salmonella petition

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IAEA details food safety work in Uganda and Costa Rica

Asda and Tesco’s chicken Campylobacter results above FSA target

WHO: Unsafe food continues to affect millions in Europe

Appellate review of Arkansas’s new “cause of action” is underway in St. Louis

Campylobacter outbreak linked to milk sickens more than 100

University of Nebraska-Lincoln sends hand sanitizer to USDA as COVID-19 cases soar in meat industry

CDC says outbreak traced to imported mushrooms appears to be over

Herbicides purchased for this planting season and ready for the field are now illegal

Australia sees decline in Campylobacter and Salmonella

Mom was right about not touching slime; researchers looking at pathogens in food facilities

Ciguatera cases linked to imported fish in New Zealand

Bill Marler’s last word (or maybe not) on the Salmonella petition