Two audits by the European Commission’s health and safety agency have looked at checks on food of non-animal origin (FNAO) and bivalve mollusks in Turkey.
A DG Sante audit
Denmark’s control system on live bivalve mollusks is not good enough, according to the European Commission.
DG Sante, the EU’s health and safety unit, held a remote audit
Food recall guidance for businesses in New Zealand has been updated.
The guidance document includes example procedures, checklists, and spreadsheets plus revised recall risk assessment and audit forms. Six steps
Authorities in Ireland and New Zealand have issued warnings about consumption of collected shellfish in the past week.
The Marine Institute in Ireland detected amounts of naturally occurring compounds in
The discovery of unsafe levels of Diarrhetic Shellfish Poison in samples of shellfish collected near Seattle has prompted the closing of Puget Sound beaches for recreational shellfish harvest. Washington state
The Sitka Tribe of Alaska has set up an environmental research and testing lab in Sitka and plans to begin testing local shellfish for biotoxins this spring. There has reportedly
