Regulators in New Zealand have tightened the rules for the chicken sector to try and tackle a type of Salmonella linked to human illnesses.
The new rules came into force earlier this month and attempt
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Marks and Spencer has recorded the highest Campylobacter in chicken results in the most recent quarterly figures reported in the United Kingdom.
The newest data covers April to June for nine retailers on Campylobacter in
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Several people living in apartments designed for older people have been sickened by Campylobacter in a Swedish municipality.
People who received food from the kitchen at Allégården in the Sunne municipality fell ill with gastrointestinal
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The Austrian Agency for Health and Food Safety (AGES) has published a report looking at the Campylobacter situation in the country.
In 2020, there were 5,162 cases of Campylobacter reported, which is down from almost
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The number of food and feed risk notices reported by EU countries to the European Commission fell by more than 6 percent in 2020, according to an annual report.
In 2020, there were 3,862 original
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A rise in the number of people getting sick from Campylobacter has been reported in recent weeks in Sweden. Since the end of July up to this past week, the number of people infected with
Continue Reading Campylobacter infections increasing in Sweden; chicken likely source
Chicken has been confirmed as the source of most Campylobacter infections, according to a research report published by the Food Standards Agency (FSA) in the United Kingdom.
The aim was to estimate contributions of the
Continue Reading Scale of Campylobacter poultry link assessed in UK study
Inspectors at the Czech Republic’s food agency and police have found illegal production of mung bean sprouts.
The Czech Agriculture and Food Inspection Authority (SZPI) and police officers from Prague discovered the unregistered business operating
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A surveillance project in Denmark using whole genome sequencing has found many Campylobacter infections are not sporadic and helped uncover a large outbreak.
The study showed that roughly half of human infections belong to genetic
Continue Reading WGS project on Campylobacter gives insights in Denmark
Norwegian cattle, swine and poultry are only rarely infected with Salmonella, according to the results of surveillance programs in 2020.
Occurrence of Salmonella in Norwegian production animals and animal products is very low compared to
Continue Reading Norwegian surveillance finds low levels of Salmonella
Frogs legs made up two thirds of the products irradiated in Europe in 2018 and 2019, but use of the food safety technique continued to fall, according to a report.
The three main commodities are
Continue Reading EU food irradiation report shows continued decline
