Coronavirus illnesses to date may touch as little as 4 percent of meat and poultry employment, but it been enough to roil the industry over how much protection the plants
Israel exports ready-to-eat fully cooked and not shelf-stable poultry products to the United States. And those exports may continue, according to a report by the USDA’s
Two laboratories did not achieve a good performance in the initial 2018 quality control test on Salmonella typing, according to a new report.
The National Reference Laboratories (NRLs) of EU
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.
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An analysis by Norwegian scientists has found a low level of heavy metals in processed fish products in the country.
Commercially available items were collected from 2015 to 2018 and
Intensive farming techniques could increase the likelihood of pathogens becoming a public health risk, according to researchers.
An international team led by the Universities of Bath and Sheffield in England,
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The COVID-19 lockdown and subsequent reopening scheduled have raised the bar on restaurant cleanliness, especially hand cleanliness.Operators are filling their entryways with hand sanitizer dispensers as one
Two senior U.S. Representatives, two former Secretaries of Agriculture, a chef, and Consumer Reports have sent USDA an “action plan” to safeguard America’s food supply during the COVID-
Scientists have found half of rice varieties they tested exceeded maximum arsenic limits for young children in the United Kingdom.
A team at the University of Sheffield’s Institute for
The Shiga toxin-producing E. coli infection rate in Europe jumped by 40 percent in 2018 compared to the previous year, based on data from ECDC’s annual surveillance report.
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