People in the Netherlands have been advised not to eat home-produced eggs because of high amounts of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS).
The National Institute for Public Health and the Environment (RIVM) said it is not possible to tell the amount of PFAS in an egg from a visual inspection.
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Two dozen people were sickened in the Netherlands after eating blueberries contaminated with hepatitis A.
The National Institute for Public Health and the Environment (RIVM) said it received 24 reports of people who very likely contracted hepatitis A from frozen blueberries. This is double the number of cases since the outbreak was announced.
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At least a dozen people have been sickened in the Netherlands after eating blueberries contaminated with hepatitis A.
The National Institute for Public Health and the Environment (RIVM) received reports of patients with hepatitis A from two Municipal Health Services (GGD) in the south and southwest of the Netherlands.
Patients
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Dutch experts discussed a range of microbial and chemical safety topics in 2023 and rated them in terms of risk.
To identify new food safety risks as early as possible, the Ministry of Health, Welfare and Sport and the Ministry of Agriculture, Nature and Food Quality established the Signalling Consultation
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The European Commission has named the labs that will lead work on bacteria, parasites, and viruses.
The European Reference Laboratories (EURLs) are for food- and water-borne bacteria, food- and water-borne viruses, and food-, water- and vector-borne helminths and protozoa.
EURLs are designated for seven years and will be funded under
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Scientists have said applying a technique often used to assess the disease burden by pathogens to chemicals is “feasible but complicated.”
The Dutch National Institute for Public Health and Environment (RIVM) investigated the possibility of using the approach to estimate and compare the health impacts of foodborne chemicals.
The health
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More people have fallen sick in one of the Netherlands’ largest Salmonella outbreaks ever recorded.
As of mid-September, 171 laboratory-confirmed patients have been identified, including 151 in 2023 and 20 in 2024. Of these, 85 are male and 86 are female.
The National Institute for Public Health and the Environment
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The number of outbreaks and people sick in them in the Netherlands has gone down compared to the previous year, according to statistics recently reported.
In 2023, 911 outbreaks were reported, with 3,500 people falling ill. In 2022, there were 1,173 outbreaks and 4,505 sick people.
Norovirus, Salmonella, and Campylobacter
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Dutch scientists have created a framework that can be used when looking into the reuse of water on food crops.
The National Institute for Public Health and the Environment (RIVM), Wageningen University and Research (WUR) and the Netherlands Food and Consumer Product Safety Authority (NVWA) have defined a set of
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According to a recent report, most foodborne pathogens increased in the Netherlands in 2023 compared to the year before, and a large Salmonella outbreak with 150 cases was recorded.
The National Institute for Public Health and the Environment (RIVM) said the number of people with gastrointestinal illnesses in 2023 was
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