More than 90 people look set to lose their jobs at the Finnish Food Authority (Ruokavirasto) as part of savings plans.
The agency estimates that it will have to terminate the employment of 93 people. Dismissals are planned to be carried out by Sept. 30 and no later than Nov.
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The World Health Organization (WHO) is looking for a consultant to help update estimates on the burden of foodborne diseases.
The agency’s Foodborne Disease Burden Epidemiology Reference Group (FERG) published the first global report on this subject in 2015. This showed foodborne diseases caused 600 million illnesses and 420,000 deaths
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The safety of our food supply is dependent on a core group of professionals at the federal, state and local levels of government, as well as professionals working in the food industry. Ironically, despite its importance, we have incomplete knowledge about the food safety workforce in the United States. In
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