A new study funded by the Frozen Food Foundation and developed by Cornell researchers, including expert in microbial food safety Martin Wiedmann, has created a decision-making tool called the Frozen Food Listeria Lot Risk Assessment
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A team of researchers says a relatively new foodborne pathogen documented in a man who had eaten raw salmon before becoming ill is all the evidence needed to warn the public against consuming raw seafood.
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More than 10,600 people were poisoned by mushrooms and 22 deaths were reported from 2010 to 2017 in France.
A total of 10,625 cases of unintentional poisoning because of ingestion of mushrooms were recorded by
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A bipartisan pair of influential Western senators wants to “cement into law how government agencies regulate food produced using animal cell-culture technology.”
Sens. Mike Enzi, R-WY, and Jon Tester, D-MT, have introduced legislation to ensure
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Australian researchers have detected Toxoplasma gondii in more than one third of sampled ground lamb.
Toxoplasma is a parasite that causes inflammation of the retina, which is the nerve layer of the eye. Anyone may
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Editor’s note: This contributed piece is from the thesis of Jamie Ragos, the current holder of The Dave Theno Fellowship for Food Safety.
Thesis: Over the past three years, there has been an
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Food safety professionals from 12 African countries met in Kenya for a workshop on seafood safety.
The African regional workshop on bivalve mollusk sanitation was held in Nairobi this past month and included visiting experts
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A noted food-safety expert says she’s pleased with how much information about local farms and food safety is contained in a recently released needs assessment survey report, but she also admitted to being surprised at
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The trend of finding Salmonella infantis in poultry products is increasing, according to researchers.
European regulation on fresh poultry specifically mentions only Salmonella enteritidis or Salmonella typhimurium as a food safety criterion so considers chicken
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Editor’s note: This interview was originally published by the Pew Charitable Trusts and is reprinted here with permission.
