Salmonella and Campylobacter infections in England declined in the second quarter of this year compared to the same period in 2024.
Data from the UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) shows there were 18,677 confirmed laboratory reports of Campylobacter and 2,342 of Salmonella in Q2 2025. From April to June 2024
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An audit of laboratories in the United Kingdom has revealed a number of potential issues ranging from staff retention to a lack of shelf-life and virus testing knowledge.
The UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) provides the UK’s National Reference Laboratory (NRL) for food microbiology for the Food Standards Agency (FSA).
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More than 5,200 consumer complaints about food safety were submitted to a dedicated service in Belgium in 2024.
The Federal Agency for the Safety of the Food Chain (FASFC) consumer contact point received 5,222 complaints. This is up from 4,865 complaints in 2023.
In 2024, 21 complaints per working day
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The main food microbiology lab in the United Kingdom has shared highlights of its recent activity in an annual report.
The report covers work of the UK’s national reference laboratory (NRL) for food microbiology between April 2023 and March 2024.
The UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) provides the service for
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Singapore has relocated its national reference laboratory for food science and held a roundtable on novel food regulations.
The National Centre for Food Science (NCFS) is the scientific arm of the Singapore Food Agency (SFA) and the new site was officially opened at the end of October.
The national reference
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The United Kingdom’s top food microbiology lab has continued to see a drop in communications with European counterparts after Brexit.
Findings come from a report covering work of the UK’s national reference laboratory (NRL) for food microbiology between April 2022 and March 2023.
The UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) provides
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The United Kingdom leaving the European Union has resulted in reduced communication between UK and EU food networks, according to a new report.
The annual report covers work of the UK’s national reference laboratory (NRL) for food microbiology between April 2021 and March 2022.
The UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA)
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The European Commission has looked at progress in the food safety systems of countries that are trying to become EU member states.
The reports cover many sectors and developments in the past year in Kosovo, Albania, and Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Bosnia and Herzegovina was found to have made no progress
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The Food Standards Agency (FSA) has outlined plans to support the existing laboratory network which it says is in a “precarious position”.
The agency has obtained funding of £2.1 million ($2.2 million) per year, which will be used to deliver an improved system from 2022 to 2025.
There has been
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The source of infection was not found for three of four Listeria outbreaks in England in 2018.
The one which was solved was an international outbreak that involved 12 cases in England from 2015 to 2018 and was traced to frozen sweetcorn and vegetables produced by Greenyard in Hungary.
The
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