Editor’s note: After this story published the U.S. Food and Drug administration and the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention posted outbreak updates naming Thomson International,
The FDA’s big news is that there is now an EPA-approved protocol for developing pathogen treatments for pre-harvest agricultural water. The agency’s nagging news is that
Sweden has reported three outbreaks of histamine poisoning in tuna from Vietnam in the past three months.
The outbreaks, which have affected about 60 people, do not appear to be
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
No matter how much individuals think they know about COVID-19 and food safety, experts agree on one point. No one knows enough.
More than a dozen scientists, government officials
In yesterday’s International Association for Food Protections’ Global Summit, experts in food safety from corporate and academic sectors discussed mitigation efforts that are being used to protect food workers
From county extension agents to state agriculture commissioners to USDA, the public is being warned about “mysterious and unsolicited seed” shipments coming from China that may show up in their
A child in Norway has died in a hospital after suffering complications from an E. coli infection.
The 2-year-old, from the Oslo area of the country, developed the
Natural Grocers, Citizens for GMO Labeling, Label GMOs, Rural Vermont, Good Earth Natural Foods, Puget Consumers Co-op, and the Center for Food Safety are plaintiffs in a new lawsuit
Japan’s export of raw intact beef to the United States came in for review earlier this year in the form of an on-site equivalence verification audit by USDA’
Food outlets in the most deprived areas are less likely to meet hygiene standards than those in the least deprived regions of England and Wales, according to a study.
Takeaways,
The number of foodborne outbreaks in Norway declined slightly this past year from 2018, according to the country’s public health agency.
In 2019, 223 outbreaks from all sources were
