The number of people sick has gone up in Denmark, but the number of outbreaks remained stable in 2022, according to recently released data.
In 2022, there were 5,142 cases of Campylobacter and 899 cases of Salmonella, compared to 3,740 and 692 in 2021. Of Campylobacter and Salmonella cases in
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Danish officials are searching for the source of a Salmonella outbreak that has affected 16 people with one recorded death.
During March and April 2023, 16 cases of Salmonella Muenchen have been recorded.
Eight men and eight women are sick. Patients are aged between 10 and 95 with a median
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Spring onions from Egypt were likely behind a deadly E. coli outbreak in Denmark in 2021, according to researchers.
Between November and December 2021, the first recorded outbreak of enteroinvasive E. coli (EIEC) in Denmark occurred. A total of 88 sick people, including 58 women, with a median age of 52 and
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Campaigns by authorities in the Netherlands, Sweden, and Denmark have found allergen information provided to consumers is often inaccurate.
European regulation lists 14 allergens that are subject to labeling and information requirements.
Inspections by the Netherlands Food and Consumer Product Safety Authority (NVWA) showed that 60 percent of nearly 13,000
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A Danish campaign to tackle Listeria after a large outbreak doesn’t appear to have worked, based on the recently released findings of a study.
The awareness campaign was a risk communication strategy aimed at reducing Listeria. However, the study showed the prevalence of Listeria monocytogenes in high-risk RTE facilities was
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A brand of fish cakes has been traced to a Listeria outbreak in Denmark in which one person died.
From mid-August to October, the Statens Serum Institut (SSI) recorded seven patients who became ill with the same type of Listeria monocytogenes.
The Statens Serum Institut, Danish Veterinary and Food Administration
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Five people have been sickened in the space of two months in a Listeria outbreak in Denmark.
Between Aug. 18 and Oct. 13, the Statens Serum Institut (SSI) recorded five people infected with the same type of Listeria monocytogenes.
Two men and three women are sick. Patients are between the
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Danish officials are trying to find the source of a Salmonella outbreak that has sickened 14 people in a month.
Between Aug. 15 and Sept. 16, more than a dozen cases with the same type of Salmonella Typhimurium have been registered at the Statens Serum Institut.
Patients are seven men
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A Salmonella outbreak in Denmark has ended without the source being identified although patient interviews pointed to chicken.
From the end of March to early August, 22 people were infected with the same type of Salmonella Enteritidis.
Patients included 15 men and seven women. They were between 8 and 59
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Denmark’s control system on live bivalve mollusks is not good enough, according to the European Commission.
DG Sante, the EU’s health and safety unit, held a remote audit in Denmark from April to May 2021.
Auditors said potential public health risks cannot be excluded as the system does not reliably
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