Researchers have evaluated a handheld DNA sequencing device for use in environmental monitoring at food factories.
The study, by researchers from the Teagasc food research program and APC Microbiome Ireland’s Science Foundation Ireland Research Centre,
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A multi-year Listeria outbreak in Switzerland that killed 10 people was linked to pasteurized cheese products, according to a study.
The incident highlights the risk for recontamination of cheese during manufacturing and emphasizes the need
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Negative terms most commonly used to describe the Food Standards Agency (FSA) were “frustrating, challenging and inconsistent”, according to a survey.
The research was done because the FSA wanted to know how businesses in the
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An inspection at a dairy company in Spain has found serious issues meaning items made there could pose a risk to the public, according to authorities.
Officials from the Ministry of Health in Galicia, a
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As part of its enforcement activities, the Food and Drug Administration sends warning letters to entities under its jurisdiction. Some letters are not posted for public view until weeks or months after they are sent.
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A dairy company in New Zealand has been fined for falsifying almost 200 positive Listeria results between 2012 and 2016.
Epicurean Dairy Ltd., and the company’s former general manager Angus Allan, pleaded guilty to 10
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Mecox Bay Dairy LLC, a company based in New York, is recalling an undisclosed volume of its “Mecox Sunrise” washed-rind Tomme style cheese because state inspectors found Listeria contamination.
The company did not provide any
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Inspectors have found Listeria monocytogenes in raw milk from a Pennsylvania dairy, prompting Pennsylvania officials to urge consumers to immediately discard any of the unpasteurized milk bought recently.
Routine state testing revealed the bacterial contamination
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The Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture has warned consumers to discard raw milk purchased at a dairy in the Northeastern area of the state. It says anyone who purchased raw milk from Gross Family Dairy in
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The most recently posted warning letters from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) include an exchange with a seafood processing and importing establishment in Rancho Dominguez, CA. 
In a Sept. 8 warning letter, FDA
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A summary judgment has been awarded to the plaintiffs in lawsuits against four industrial dairies in the Lower Yakima Valley of Washington state for violations of environmental protection laws. The Community Association for Restoration of
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