The European Commission’s health and safety division has published findings from two assessments looking at controls on milk and dairy products in Austria and Slovakia.
A DG Sante audit in January 2023 made seven recommendations in Austria, including attention to raw milk.
Austrian legislation sets conditions for raw milk sold
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Singapore is to remove melamine-related measures for the import of milk products from China.
Requirements were established following the 2008 milk incident in China, where the industrial chemical melamine was detected in local infant milk formula products. They will be lifted at the start of November.
More than 290,000 people
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Researchers have provided insight into a large outbreak in Japan linked to milk served in schools.
The E. coli outbreak in June 2021 involved more than 1,800 cases from 25 schools, but no deaths were recorded.
The O antigens of most E. coli isolates were untypable (OUT). Although major foodborne toxins and
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Rock House Creamery Newborn, GA, has issued a voluntary recall for its whole milk and buttermilk.
“During a routine inspection conducted by the Georgia Department of Agriculture on Sept. 13, 2023, pasteurization records were found incomplete for select lots in September. Since these pasteurization charts are the primary record of
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The Food and Drug Administration is out with draft recommendations for the industry on the naming of plant-based beverages that are marketed and sold as alternatives to milk. The draft guidance also recommends voluntary nutrient statements for the labeling of some plant-based milk alternatives.
“Today’s draft guidance was developed to
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Three people fell ill after drinking pasteurized milk from a farm in England in 2021, according to recent study results.
The Cryptosporidium parvum outbreak was linked to milk from a vending machine.
Post-pasteurization contamination was the source of the outbreak, according to the study published in Epidemiology and Infection. It is
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Three E. coli outbreaks were reported in England earlier this year with two linked to dairy farms.
The Animal and Plant Health Agency (APHA) helped the UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) investigate Shiga toxin-producing E. coli (STEC) O103, O145, and O26 outbreaks between July and September.
The E. coli O26
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Two audits by the European Commission’s health and safety unit have looked at milk and dairy products in Poland and the Netherlands.
A remote DG Sante audit, in March 2021 in Poland found the system was well-designed but a lack of training and internal audits weaken the effectiveness.
Dairy products
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Why not make human milk in a lab?
As improbable and far-fetched — and maybe even blasphemous — as it may seem, scientists are working on doing just that. More than that, some are predicting the final product will be available in three or four years.
“Startups are racing to
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More than 20 children in New Jersey were taken to the hospital this week after drinking milk contaminated with sanitizer.
The cartons were accidentally filled with the sanitizer at the production plant, according to a post on Facebook from the Camden City School District.
“It was determined that the substance
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