At least a dozen people have been sickened in the Netherlands after eating blueberries contaminated with hepatitis A.
The National Institute for Public Health and the Environment (RIVM) received reports of patients with hepatitis A from two Municipal Health Services (GGD) in the south and southwest of the Netherlands.
Patients
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WHO and FAO have published the full report of an exercise that ranked foodborne viruses according to frequency and severity.
The first part of the World Health Organization (WHO) and UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) meetings focused on food attribution, analytical methods, and indicators.
Experts reviewed the scientific literature
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The City of Milwaukee Health Department (MHD) has received a report of a confirmed case of hepatitis A in a restaurant worker. The individual is an employee at Beans & Barley, located on Milwaukee’s East Side.
The individual took necessary precautions after developing symptoms and is fully cooperating with public
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The Food and Drug Administration continues using 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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The Food and Drug Administration continues using 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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The Cortland County Health Department (CCHD) confirms that a local restaurant worker, a food handler at Queen Subs, has tested positive for hepatitis A. Health officials say the risk of infection is low, but if you ate or drank anything at the shop between June 20 and July 3, you
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Public Health officials in two California counties are warning of the spread of two public health hazards – Shigella and Hepatitis A. Each of these “bugs” – one a bacteria and one a virus – are carried in human feces.
For moral reasons we need to help make sure our fellow
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New Zealand Food Safety has issued new import rules for frozen berries that aim to help keep citizens safe and improve processes at the border.
Changes will come into effect on Aug. 1, and importers have 18 months until Jan. 31, 2026, to transition to the modified requirements.
From 2022
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People who ate at the Main Deck restaurant in Penn Yan, NY, between March 27 and April 12 were potentially exposed to the hepatitis A virus. Most people do not get sick when an employee at a restaurant has hepatitis A, but there is still a risk. People who may
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Experts have assessed prevention and intervention methods to tackle foodborne viruses in different products.
In February, the Joint FAO/WHO Expert Meeting on Microbiological Risk Assessment (JEMRA) on viruses in foods took place in Geneva, Switzerland, after a related request by the Codex Committee on Food Hygiene in 2022. The committee
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