Clostridium perfringens has been confirmed as the cause of more than 100 students falling ill at a university in New Zealand.
Health New Zealand and the Ministry for Primary Industries (MPI) investigated the outbreak among pupils at the University of Canterbury’s University Hall in Christchurch. Students fell ill a few
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The USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Service has issued a public health alert for various meat and poultry products that were illegally imported from the Republic of the Union of Myanmar. FSIS is continuing to investigate how these products entered the country.
The following products are subject to the public health
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The USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Service has put together a preliminary list of schools that received meat and chicken products that have been recalled because of Listeria contamination.
The ready-to-eat products are part of an 11 million pound recall by BrucePac initiated after USDA testing confirmed that finished product
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Reser’s Fine Foods is recalling some of its meal kits because they include chicken that is part of an 11 million pound recall for Listeria contamination.
The chicken was supplied by BrucePac. The Brucepak production facility has been found by the Food and Drug Administration to be contaminated with Listeria
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The 7 million-pound recall of meat and poultry products from BrucePac has been expanded to include almost 2 million more pounds of products, some of which were sent to schools.
The USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) is reporting that the recall of an additional 1.77 million pounds of
Continue Reading Chicken and meat recall expanded; more than 11 million pounds now implicated
Rana brand tagliatelle chicken and mushroom sauce is being recalled in Canada because of potential contamination with Listeria monocytogenes.
The implicated sauce was distributed nationwide, according to the Canadian Food Inspection Agency.
There is concern that consumers may have the recalled product in their homes because its expiration dates run
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The USDA is planning to reduce some Salmonella testing for poultry products for the coming fiscal year, but that is not necessarily a bad thing.
In a 33-page sampling plan for fiscal year 2024, the USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) outlines the number of samples it plans
Continue Reading USDA reveals plan to test poultry for Salmonella, Campylobacter; some cutbacks included
Researchers have suggested ways to improve analysis to help with source attribution and Campylobacter outbreak investigations.
The standard method of Campylobacter detection is through culture, though feasibility constraints usually result in selecting or characterizing as few as one isolate per sample.
Only taking a few isolates can lead to the
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Officials in New Zealand have reported progress on a target to reduce domestic foodborne Campylobacter infections in the country.
A report prepared by the Institute of Environmental and Scientific Research (ESR) found that the rate of New Zealand-acquired foodborne illness caused by Campylobacter has fallen from 88 to 77 cases per
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Swedish health officials issued a warning after an increase in the number of people infected by Campylobacter in July.
Folkhälsomyndigheten (the Public Health Agency of Sweden) reported in the first two weeks of July, the number of reported cases of Campylobacter in people infected in Sweden increased to nearly 100 per
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