Almost 400 people have fallen ill with Salmonella since the start of the year in the United Kingdom after eating frozen chicken products.
The Food Standards Agency (FSA) and Public Health England (PHE) are investigating
Continue Reading Nearly 400 people sick from Salmonella in UK; nearly half are children
Certain Cow & Gate baby food has been recalled from a supermarket in the United Kingdom because it may have been tampered with.
Cow & Gate and Tesco are recalling 15 varieties of 7 plus
Continue Reading Baby food recalled in UK due to tampering fears
Public concern about food safety in the United Kingdom has declined based on results of a survey by the Food Standards Agency (FSA).
Results released from May this year show 41 percent of respondents were
Continue Reading Survey shows slight drop in consumers’ concerns about food safety in UK
Cattle in Scotland have a higher level of a certain subtype of E. coli O157 which causes more severe human infections, according to a report.
Scientists found that Scottish cattle have more E. coli O157
Continue Reading E. coli O157 study could explain higher human infection rates in Scotland
Seventeen food isolates matching the Salmonella outbreak strain linked to 147 illnesses were detected earlier this year in four plants of one company and the site of a different firm in the United Kingdom.
The
Continue Reading Cucumber Salmonella outbreak strain isolated from four sites of UK company
Some academics have argued an “additional, unnecessary risk” is being created by the Food Standards Agency’s decision to continue major reform of UK food safety regulation during the Brexit negotiations.
One part of the briefing
Continue Reading UK food safety reform during Brexit creates ‘additional risk’
With multinational retailer Tesco neither willing to confirm nor deny that it is the “Supermarket X” linked to Hepatitis E infections in an estimated 150,000 to 200,000 British sausage lovers annually, some people are beginning
Continue Reading Imports eyed in 150K to 200K annual Hep E cases in England
Comments, that began on April 4, 2017 and continue to June 27, 2017, are being taken by the Food Standards Agency for Northern Ireland about enforcement of novel foods by food businesses.
The agency says
Continue Reading Northern Ireland’s FSA opens comment period on novel foods
Editor’s note: For details on efforts in New Jersey and Texas to allow in-state sales of unpasteurized raw milk, the interstate sale of which is prohibited by federal law, please see “Raw milk advocates
Continue Reading UK’s raw milk vending machine outbreak expands; 56 sick
The Food Standards Agency in the United Kingdom this week published official statistics on food law enforcement by local authorities across the UK for 2015-16. Information provided by local authorities and compiled by the FSA,
Continue Reading Local food safety staffing in UK down by 6 percent
In case you’ve been wondering about “food incidents” across the pond, the Food Standards Agency for the United Kingdom is out with its report for the July through September 2016 period. The report includes those
Continue Reading FSA reports 54 ‘food incidents’ in United Kingdom in Q3
