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Cucumber Salmonella outbreak strain isolated from four sites of UK company

By Joe Whitworth on August 1, 2018

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.

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U.K. retailers report chicken campylobacter levels for Q1

By News Desk on June 18, 2018

The top nine retailers across the United Kingdom have now published their latest testing results on campylobacter contamination in UK-produced fresh whole chickens (covering samples tested from January to March), according to the June 15

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UK prepares to comply with Europe’s new acrylamide rules

By News Desk on November 30, 2017

Food businesses in Europe must take “practical steps” to manage acrylamide within their food safety management systems beginning in April. New European Union legislation describes “practical measures” food businesses must take to mitigate acrylamide formation…
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FSA warns consumers about those trendy raw chicken dishes

By News Desk on September 15, 2017

The London-based Food Standards Agency is worried people may believe what they read in the newspaper.

A report that ran last weekend in the lifestyle section of The Daily Mirror about a celebrity chef who…
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Dutch egg recall for insecticide contamination spans the globe

By News Desk on August 8, 2017

Dutch egg producers’ practice of mixing the toxic insecticide Fipronil with a cleaning agent and sanitizer known as “Dega 16” for use around chickens has apparently led to the world’s largest recall of shell eggs…
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UK’s food crime fighting unit doing some public outreach

By News Desk on March 20, 2017

FSAfoodcrimeunit_406x250The United Kingdom’s National Food Crime Unit (NFCU) is doing a bit of outreach this year.   The 2-year old unit for busting food crimes is inviting people to fill out public surveys and then maybe…
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UK responds to report of ‘hygiene failings’ in slaughterhouses

By Dan Flynn on February 22, 2017

A report about contaminated meat in the United Kingdom by The Bureau of Investigative Journalism, a London-based nonprofit that says it exists to “expose wrongs and spark change” lacks accuracy, according to the the UK’s…
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FSA releases food incident details for final quarter of 2016

By News Desk on February 7, 2017

In the final quarter of 2016, the Food Standards Agency (FSA) for the United Kingdom issued 34 food notices, including 17 for allergy alerts. Milk, nuts and gluten were the top three undeclared allergens named.
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Ireland reports food safety enforcements for November

By News Desk on January 3, 2017

The Food Safety Authority of Ireland has released the four Enforcement Orders it served on food businesses in November for breaches of food safety laws. The Enforcement Orders were issued by environmental health officers in…
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‘Food Crime Confidential’ is up and running in the UK

By News Desk on November 30, 2016

foodcrimesign_406x250‘Food Crime Confidential’ – a reporting facility where food crime can be reported safely and in confidence, over the phone and through email has been launched in the United Kingdom.

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