PITTSBURGH, PA — In an IAFP 2022 session on Aug. 2, Dr. Ewen Todd, Ewen Todd Consulting, LLC, provided an overview of several international outbreaks.
Todd started with a chocolate outbreak
Finland saw a rise in the number of food recalls and outbreaks in 2021, according to a report. Food recalls increased for the sixth year in a row to more
The number of patients in an outbreak of Salmonella Braenderup infections has increased from 59 to 63 in the past week FDA investigators continue to search for the source of
The number of foodborne infections climbed in Sweden in 2021 compared to the year before but most are still below pre-Coronavirus pandemic levels.
The report by the National Veterinary Institute
A study has pointed to a reduction in Salmonella contamination rates of frozen breaded chicken sold in the United Kingdom.
Frozen, breaded, ready-to-cook chicken products have a browned, cooked external
A rise in Shiga toxin-producing E. coli (STEC) infections has prompted a warning by health officials in the Czech Republic.
The National Institute of Public Health (SZU) reported that in
The impact of the Coronavirus pandemic is still being felt in figures on foodborne infections as the majority of them decreased in Norway this past year.
In 2021, there was
The Food and Drug Administration is continuing to investigate several food-related outbreaks of infections, with patient numbers slowly increasing.
Sources of pathogens behind the outbreak infections have not been identified
The FDA is investigating two new outbreaks of Salmonella infections that have together sickened more than 50 people.
An outbreak of Salmonella Braenderup has sickened 40 people, but the Food
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
Federal officials are investigating a new outbreak of infections from Listeria monocytogenes but have not released any specific information.
The Food and Drug Administration announced the outbreak investigation in its
Built Brands, LLC. of American Fork, UT, is recalling 4,196 individual bars of its “Banana Cream Pie Puffs” protein bar because of potential pathogenic E. coli contamination. The exact
