Researchers in China have reported the first identified outbreak caused by a local Campylobacter jejuni infection in Beijing.
A total of 14 patients were sick who worked at the same factory. They had shared a common meal supplied from a meal delivery company. The outbreak was not related to the
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The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has said it is aware of reports that China will begin testing foods for Coronavirus.
Frank Yiannas, Deputy Commissioner of Food Policy and Response at the FDA, wrote on Twitter that there is currently no evidence of the transmission of COVID-19 through food and
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More than 200 students were part of a norovirus and Bacillus cereus outbreak at a school in Beijing this past year, according to a recently released study.
Researchers identified 209 cases, of which 28 were laboratory-confirmed, that occurred from late August to mid-September 2018. All ill were students in an
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At the close of 2012, the city of Bejing passed a new law that will ban vendors who produce or sell unsafe food from the municipality. The regulation was passed December 26 by the Standing Committee of the 13th Beijing Municipal People’s Congress, and will go into effect April 1,
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Those convicted of a food safety-related crime in Beijing will soon be barred from investing in or running a food business, according to new proposal.
Bloomberg News reported that the draft rules would “regulate the use of edible additives in the catering industry, and crack down on the illegal use
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