The European Commission is developing steps to be followed in times of a crisis based on lessons learned from the COVID-19 pandemic.
The contingency plan is a set of procedures
The European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) has held an online workshop on crisis preparedness, giving attention to fast-evolving, largescale foodborne disease outbreaks.
Sixty-three participants attended plenary and/or working group
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It was a mixed year which saw many multi-country, multi-year outbreaks raise their head again but for some of them, 2018 marked the year they were solved.
The year
A network of “crisis coordinators” has been established by the European Commission as part of plans to improve management of food safety incidents.
The idea of one contact point in
Five European food safety agencies have met to practice response to an emergency food safety incident.
The Federal Office of Consumer Protection and Food Safety (BVL) of Germany, Economic and
These should be heady days at the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA).
The nation’s $1+ trillion deficit is not much of a speed bump for the $288 billion
While the timing may have been sensitive (it was just days after the 10th anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks), the LA Times’ “Food Poisoning: America’s Homegrown Threat”
