Salmonella in breaded chicken and ethylene oxide were two of the main incidents handled this past year by the Food Standards Agency (FSA).
The FSA was notified of 2,336 food and feed safety incidents in England, Northern Ireland and Wales during 2021/22. This is an 18 percent increase compared to 1,978 alerts
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Scotland is planning a new food sampling strategy to tackle challenges associated with the current approach to testing.
The proposed model has four strands of surveillance managed and funded by Food Standards Scotland (FSS), and is separate from the verification sampling by local authorities as part of their routine inspections.
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Local authority recovery, a Salmonella outbreak, food crime cases and prosecutions were among topics covered at the latest Food Standards Agency (FSA) board meeting.
Emily Miles, FSA chief executive gave an update on the local authority recovery plan for the United Kingdom, which covers July 2021 to March 2023, after
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The United Kingdom has banned imports of feeder rodents from Lithuania because of a Salmonella outbreak in humans.
An ongoing outbreak of Salmonella Enteritidis has been linked to mice imported from Lithuania used as animal feed, particularly for reptiles.
UK officials said the risk posed to public health has led
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The Food Standards Agency (FSA) has updated information on two outbreaks of norovirus and Salmonella.
The FSA is investigating an outbreak of norovirus with local authorities and the UKHSA (formerly Public Health England) with a link to oysters from areas in Bournemouth, Christchurch, Poole, and Cornwall. Norovirus is not a
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Norway has reported 13 human Salmonella infections over three years linked to the feeding and handling of snakes.
Similarly, officials in the UK have reported almost 850 people have fallen ill with Salmonella infections in an outbreak that was first investigated in 2015.
The National Institute of Public Health (Folkehelseinstituttet)
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Almost 850 people have fallen ill with Salmonella infections in recent years as part of an outbreak linked to feeder rodents.
The outbreak was first investigated in 2015 and most of those sick lived in households with one or more pet reptiles.
The latest warning states feeder mice are distributed
Continue Reading Renewed Salmonella warning for reptile owners; hundreds sickened in recent years
Contact with frozen feeder rodents has been linked to 37 people from 18 states becoming infected with the outbreak strain of Salmonella Typhimurium, according to an announcement Tuesday from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). CDC noted that the cases were reported between Jan 11 and May
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