Almost 550 people were hospitalized in Vietnam earlier this year after a Salmonella outbreak linked to a type of sandwich sold at a bakery.
The outbreak occurred in Dong Nai province in May 2024. The Dong Nai Food Safety Department and the Institute of Public Health in Ho Chi Minh
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The source of a norovirus outbreak that affected more than 200 people in an Australian state was likely an ill food handler, according to researchers.
In November 2021, the Australian Capital Territory Department of Health (ACT Health) was told by the owner of a food outlet about a report of
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As part of its enforcement activities, the Food and Drug Administration sends warning letters to entities under its jurisdiction. Some letters are not posted for public view until weeks or months after they are sent. Business owners have 15 days to respond to FDA warning letters. Warning letters often are
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Bakery products were linked to the most illnesses in 2020, according to an analysis of food poisonings reported to the Swedish Food Agency (Livsmedelsverket).
Food categories behind illnesses included bakery items with 210 cases, chicken with 155 people sick and foods from the sea at 164 cases. Bakery products such
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More than 20 people have been infected with hepatitis A in an outbreak in a German municipality.
There have been 23 infections in the community of Dummerstorf in the Rostock district of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern. Three more test results are pending. Officials believe the virus has been spread through food.
Of those
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The Food and Drug Administration recently sent warning letters to a Massachusetts bakery, two seafood processing facilities in China and Greece because inspectors found significant violations of U.S. food safety laws at their operations.
Businesses have 15 days to respond in writing to the FDA after receiving a warning letter.
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Michigan officials made an urgent appeal Thursday for anyone who has eaten baked goods from a specific Meijer grocery store to immediately seek medical attention because an employee there has been confirmed with a hepatitis A infection.
A narrow window of opportunity exists for people to receive post-exposure treatment to
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A bakery in New Mexico is on notice from the FDA for failing to take required steps to ensure that food handling techniques, facility cleaning and sanitization, and pest protection are in accordance with food safety regulations.
Staff from the Food and Drug Administration inspected the Gallup, NM, location of
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A French-owned bakery in Seattle, a juice processor in Melville, NY, and a seafood processing facility in San Juan Bautista, CA are subjects of recent warning letters from the U.S Food and Drug Administration (FDA). On April 18, FDA warned Biofournil of America, Inc. about its Seattle bakery after
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The 20-year-old Chantel’s Cakes and Pastries, located not far off the runways near Washington’s Dulles International Airport, has found that a federal case is being made of its problems.
Chantel’s, of Sterling, VA, was subjected to a U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) inspection last Nov. 30 to Jan. 6.
