The Environmental Working Group has finished crunching numbers from a government report and again says strawberries are at the top of the group’s Dirty Dozen list of fresh produce.
Every year the non-profit group takes
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Fresh produce plays an important part of an overall healthy diet. While millions of servings of fresh produce are consumed safely every day, recent outbreaks of foodborne illness have once again placed produce safety
In 2019, multiple outbreaks of cyclosporiasis were identified and found to be linked to different produce items, according to a report from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
About 10 percent of ill
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Most soft fruits exported from Serbia to Europe are not subject to official controls at primary production levels, according to a recently released audit report.
DG Sante, the European Commission’s unit for policy on food
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Multiple vegetable products have been recalled by Russ Davis Wholesale, a fresh produce processor and distributor, because of possible contamination with Listeria monocytogenes.
The recall comes after ready-to-eat entrees, including some packaged for Quick &
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A food handler has tested positive for hepatitis A, spurring a public alert for anyone who bought fresh fruits or vegetables from a specific Brother’s
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“Tropical parasites in our food? No way!” most Americans think.
It’s time to think again.
In May Hawaii’s Department of Health announced three more cases of rat lungworm in recent visitors. Already endemic in
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Most reports of animals being found in fresh produce involved frogs, according to a University of Illinois study.
More than 50 percent of 40 incidents involved frogs, but lizards, snakes, mice, birds, and a bat,
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Growers Express is again telling consumers to toss out certain fresh vegetable products because of a test result showing Listeria contamination, but it’s not telling them who supplied the implicated vegetables.
In an expansion to
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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
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A Kenyan-based technology food distribution platform is to receive help to boost food safety practices and ensure traceability of produce from the farm to consumers.
The International Finance Corporation (IFC), a member of the World
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