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Food poisoning top concern for people in Japan

By News Desk on January 20, 2021

Food poisoning has been the main food safety concern of surveyed Japanese people for almost every year since 2008, according to a study.

Food poisoning was ranked as the top food safety related hazard causing…
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Japan’s export of raw intact beef to United States has more issues now than two years ago

By Dan Flynn on July 29, 2020

Japan’s export of raw intact beef to the United States came in for review earlier this year in the form of an on-site equivalence verification audit by USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Service. FSIS auditors…
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Thousands sick in E. coli outbreaks reported in Japan and South Korea

By News Desk on July 18, 2020

Officials in Korea are investigating an E. coli outbreak that has affected 100 people while more than 3,000 students and teachers recently got food poisoning in Japan, according to media reports.

The Korea Centers for…
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Raw beef liver ban had little impact on E. coli in Japan

By News Desk on December 26, 2019

A ban on serving raw beef liver in restaurants in Japan has not decreased the number of E. coli infections in the country, according to a study.

Enterohemorrhagic E. coli (EHEC) causes many symptoms from…
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Study reviews Campylobacter due to chicken meat in Japan

By News Desk on November 8, 2019

Researchers have looked into the levels and factors behind Campylobacter food poisoning associated with chicken in Japan.

To prevent campylobacteriosis, it is necessary to counteract sanitation hazards in the food chain at farms, processing facilities,…
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Outbreaks in Japan likely from contaminated seaweed facility

By News Desk on April 18, 2018

Outbreak investigators in Japan have identified contamination in a seaweed production plant as the cause of seven foodborne illness outbreaks that sickened almost 2,100 people in 2017.

The seven foodborne norovirus outbreaks were all attributable…
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Canadian pork recalled from 2 states, defense commissary

By News Desk on February 7, 2018

A Canadian company is recalling more than two tons of raw pork because it did not undergo proper inspections when it was shipped to U.S. retailers, restaurants and a U.S. Department of Defense Commissary.

Olymel…
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Two E. coli O157:H7 illness clusters under scrutiny in Japan

By News Desk on August 25, 2017

Japan health authorities are dealing with two new clusters of E. coli O157:H7 infections.

The first involves a suspended grilled-meat restaurant in Yokohama, linked to the illnesses of a teenage girl and a man in…
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Hong Kong still testing food imports for Fukushima’s radiation

By Dan Flynn on August 23, 2016

More than five years ago on Friday, March 11, 2011, the Great East Japan Earthquake with a magnitude of 9.0 set off a large tsunami sending a 50-foot wall of water over  three Fukushima Daiichi…
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Slight Radioactivity Found in Japanese Tea Shipped to Hong Kong

By News Desk on March 17, 2015

tea-and-kettle-406Food safety authorities in Hong Kong found trace amounts of radioactive cesium 137 in powdered tea imported from Japan last week, according to The New York Times.

The sample tested at nearly one percent

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New Radiation Detector for Food Uses Space Technology

By News Desk on March 10, 2015

A collaboration between two companies has developed a device for detecting radiation-contamination food. After an earthquake and tsunami damaged Japan’s Fukushima nuclear plant in 2011 and caused a significant leak of radioactive material, RIKEN Global…
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