There are issues with how the impact and success of food safety projects are measured in developing countries, according to a review.
The study summarizes interventions evaluated in some low- and middle-income countries in Asia between 2000 and 2020 and the outcome on knowledge, attitude and practice, hazard presence, and
Continue Reading Review finds the need to improve the evaluation of food safety interventions
Experts revealed how they see the food safety situation in Africa, Asia, and Latin America at a recent online event.
Regional specialists shared their insights on safe food and realities on the ground considering politics, financing, scalability, inclusivity and gaps in capacity, and infrastructure. Panelists spoke about challenges, lessons learned,
Continue Reading Experts discuss food safety in Africa, Asia, and Latin America
Food safety officials in Belgium seized almost 80 tons of tuna in the course of a few months in 2020.
More than 90 percent of non-compliant products were imported from Asia.
Between September and December 2020, the Federal Agency for the Safety of the Food Chain (FASFC) took 45 samples
Continue Reading Almost 80 tons of tuna seized in Belgian fraud operation
The first sets of food safety risk communication and country-specific action plans to tackle the significant public health problem of foodborne parasites have been identified in Asia.
They were discussed at a regional meeting to accelerate prevention and control of neglected foodborne parasitic zoonoses in certain Asian countries in 2018
Continue Reading Experts set out plans to tackle foodborne parasites in Asia
Increasing demand in the U.S. for year-round access to all foods means more foreign food in grocery stores and that means more foodborne illness outbreaks from imported food.
Writing for the March edition of Emerging Infectious Diseases, a journal of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, four researchers take
Continue Reading Imported food sickens more Americans than ever
Peering into the early morning mist created by thousands of tons of Mekong water collapsing from Laos into nearby Cambodia, I was surprised when a small black shape emerged. He looked as spindly and fragile as a botanical specimen. Inching across a barely perceptible cable across what is known as
Continue Reading Destruction of the Don: Dam Project Threatens Food Security on the Mekong
The Japanese government tried to explain Wednesday how beef containing trace levels of radioactive cesium ended up reaching stores or consumers in several prefectures, and promised to step up inspections to prevent another such incident.
News reports said cows raised at a farm near the damaged Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power
Continue Reading Beef with Radioactive Cesium Turns Up in Japan
