One person has died in a multi-country Salmonella outbreak linked to salad from Italy.
A foodborne outbreak with about 200 Salmonella Umbilo cases occurred between July and September 2024 in nine European countries. Germany was the most affected with 118 infections.
Salmonella Umbilo was detected in rocket salad (also known as arugula or
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Germany has been hit hardest in a multi-country Salmonella outbreak linked to rocket from Italy.
As of late September, there are 98 cases in Germany. The Robert Koch Institut (RKI) believes this number may go up. There are 16 patients in Austria and 23 in Denmark.
The first cases were
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A rare type of Salmonella has sickened 20 people in Denmark and 17 in Austria.
Since July, the Statens Serum Institut (SSI) has recorded 20 cases of Salmonella Umbilo.
There are 14 men and six women sick. Patients range from under 1 to 85 years old, and the median age
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A high non-compliance rate has been found in Austria as part of an operation targeting imported supplements.
Results come from a multi-agency control campaign on food supplements sold on the Internet.
The operation involved the Federal Office of Consumer Health (BAVG), the Austrian Customs Office, and the Austrian Agency for
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Austria has reported more outbreaks and related illnesses in 2023 compared to the year before.
A total of 42 foodborne outbreaks were recorded, 14 more than in 2022. Also, 222 people were affected compared to 128 in 2022.
38 people had to be hospitalized in connection with outbreaks and there
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The number of Campylobacter cases reported in 2023 in Austria remained stable compared to the year before, according to recently released statistics.
In 2023, 6,271 cases of campylobacteriosis were reported. This is similar to the 6,295 cases in 2022. After a significant decline in 2020, the number of infections rose
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The head of a dairy company behind a Listeria outbreak in Austria faces more than a year in prison.
The boss of Käserei Gloggnitz was sentenced to 13 months in jail this week. The 39-year-old faced several charges but denied the allegations and the verdict was reported not to be
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The European Commission’s health and safety division has published findings from two assessments looking at controls on milk and dairy products in Austria and Slovakia.
A DG Sante audit in January 2023 made seven recommendations in Austria, including attention to raw milk.
Austrian legislation sets conditions for raw milk sold
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The safety of raw milk, fish, chicken, and produce were some of the products checked in recent controls in Austria.
Results of the inspection campaigns were published by the Austrian Agency for Health and Food Safety (AGES).
One control was done to get an up-to-date overview of the prevalence of
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More than 130 people have fallen sick in 11 countries with contaminated chicken meat from Poland suspected as being the source of infection.
An analysis by the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) focused on two sub-clusters of Salmonella Enteritidis sequence type (ST) 11 with 134 cases mostly reported
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