A man has been jailed in England after he admitted tampering with food products used in high street restaurants.
Garry Jones worked for Harvey and Brockless Fine Food Company, a manufacturing firm based in Evesham that produces large quantities of items for restaurants nationwide.
The 38-year-old pleaded guilty to contaminating
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A man has been arrested in Italy for threatening to tamper with food and water products in supermarkets.
Investigators said the 47-year-old man claimed he would target mineral water and food items in supermarkets by injecting them with cyanide, thallium sulphate and rat poison, if he was not paid a
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Officials in South Africa are looking into the deaths of up to five children to see if they are linked to eating instant noodles.
The Department of Health is investigating the possible food poisoning in Mpumalanga, Eastern Cape and Gauteng provinces.
The agency met with environmental health practitioners from the
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Charges against a woman accused of putting needles in strawberries in 2018 in Australia have been dropped.
My Ut Trinh, an ex-farm worker, had been charged with contamination of goods and was scheduled to go on trial in Brisbane District Court.
Local media quoted Judge Michael Byrne telling Trinh’s interpreters
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Hannaford Supermarkets has expanded a pizza dough recall to include all Portland Pie products while doubling down on warnings to consumers about “malicious tampering” involving metal objects.
“Hannaford has removed all Portland Pie products from all store shelves and has paused replenishment of the products indefinitely,” according to the Oct.
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A man who put metal in some jars of baby food in the United Kingdom has been jailed for 14 years.
Nigel Wright, a father of two, was convicted of blackmail and contaminating baby food by a jury following a nine-day trial in August at the Central Criminal Court of
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A man who put shards of metal in baby food jars in the United Kingdom has been found guilty of blackmail and contaminating goods.
Nigel Wright began threatening supermarket chain Tesco in spring 2018, writing to his local store in Lincolnshire and warning unless they paid him £750,000 ($982,000) worth
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Acts of terrorism and other intentional tampering with food are the subjects of the third and final installment of industry regulatory guidance on how to deal with the intentional adulteration of the food supply.
With the release of the draft guidance, the Food and Drug Administration completed the agency’s mandate
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The Fresh Produce Safety Centre Australia and New Zealand has published updated food safety guidelines for the industry.
The group is an industry-led organization established in 2013.
The guidelines are designed to achieve greater consistency in the development, implementation and auditing of fresh produce food safety programs. It provides an
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The government’s response to tampering of Australian strawberries with needles this past year was timely but areas to improve have been identified in a Food Standards Australia New Zealand (FSANZ) report.
These include centralizing incident coordination to include relevant government agencies such as police, and improving the consistency and messaging
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