Portuguese authorities have cracked down on operators handling meat, eggs, wine, cheese and mollusks in various operations over recent months but have recently opted to go on strike.
Earlier this month, the Economic and Food Safety Authority (ASAE) took action against a meat producer and distributor in Braga. Despite having
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An investigation into a Salmonella outbreak in Sweden has been restarted after more people fell sick.
From August to October, 81 people from 18 regions contracted Salmonella Typhimurium with sequence type (ST) 36. Where information about the country of infection is available, all cases were infected in Sweden.
Folkhälsomyndigheten (the Public
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An outbreak of Salmonella infections stretched from coast to coast has been declared over.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reports that 93 confirmed patients were confirmed, 34 of whom required hospitalization. The patients were spread across 12 states, from Virginia to California. Other states with patients were New
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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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An outbreak of Salmonella with a probable connection to imported eggs is being investigated in Sweden.
Folkhälsomyndigheten (the Public Health Agency of Sweden) said several different outbreak strains appear to be involved, and epidemiological evidence for eggs being the cause differs for each suspected strain.
Since the beginning of the
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Investigators are investigating a new outbreak of Salmonella Liverpool infections. The source of the pathogen has not yet been determined.
The Food and Drug Administration reports that three people have been confirmed infected. The agency does not report where the people live or their ages. The investigation is in the
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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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Officials in Maine have issued a recall for eggs from Rainbow Farm because of an outbreak of infections from Salmonella.
The recall by the Maine Department of Agriculture, Conservation and Forestry comes as the state’s Center for Disease Control and Prevention has identified the eggs as the source of the
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The FDA continues to investigate six ongoing outbreaks from foodborne pathogens, with increasing patient counts in four of the six.
This week, the Food and Drug Administration confirmed reports from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention that an outbreak of Salmonella Enteritidis infection has been traced to eggs. Milo’s
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65 people from 9 states have gotten sick from the same strain of Salmonella. The 9 states include the 3 states where the eggs were sold – Illinois, Michigan, and Wisconsin – in addition to California, Colorado, Iowa, Minnesota, Utah, and Virginia. Most sick people are from Wisconsin (42) or Illinois
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