French officials have reported findings from a check of pork products for Yersinia and two outbreaks caused by contaminated raw milk cheese.

Yersinia enterocolitica is one of the top agents reported in Europe, with the most frequent biotype BT4 in cases of yersiniosis. Pigs are reservoirs of this pathogen, hosting

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The Food and Drug Administration uses import alerts to enforce U.S. food safety regulations for food from foreign countries. The agency updates and modifies the alerts as needed.

Recent modifications to FDA’s import alerts, as posted by the agency, are listed below.

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Several European authorities have uncovered a group involved in counterfeiting French wine in Italy.

The investigation was led by the French Gendarmerie (Gendarmerie Nationale). It involved the Italian Carabinieri Corps (NAS Carabinieri) and Swiss Federal Police (Police Federale Swiss) with support from Europol and Eurojust.

Suspected criminals faked French red

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French authorities have again reported hundreds of poisonings linked to wild mushroom consumption.

The French Agency for Food, Environmental and Occupational Health and Safety (ANSES) said more than 400 cases had been recorded since July. Figures from the Directorate General of Health (DGS) put the number of people affected at 1,179

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