Salmonella caused almost a quarter of foodborne outbreaks in Europe in 2020, according to a report.
The main sources of salmonellosis outbreaks were eggs, egg products and pig meat. Norovirus
A decline in foodborne infections ranged from 7 percent to 53 percent in 2020 in Europe largely because of the coronavirus pandemic, according to a report.
The European Food Safety
Notified foodborne outbreaks halved in Norway in 2020 compared to the year before.
The Norwegian Institute of Public Health (FHI) received 23 notifications about outbreaks this past year compared to
The number of outbreaks and people affected in them plummeted in Austria in 2020 compared to the year before.
The Austrian Agency for Health and Food Safety (AGES) reported there
The number of most foodborne diseases dropped in Norway in 2020 but there were increases for Campylobacter, Cryptosporidium and Yersinia.
There was a decline for the majority of infectious diseases
The number of foodborne outbreaks declined in the Netherlands this past year with officials citing COVID-19 related measures as the main reason.
In 2020, there were 559 outbreaks with 1,
The number of foodborne infections in Germany declined in 2020 with the coronavirus pandemic likely affecting the figures, according to a report.
The Infectious Disease Epidemiology Annual Report provides a
The number of foodborne outbreaks reported in Germany halved in 2020, according to a report, but did include a large Salmonella outbreak linked to imported dried coconut.
The Robert Koch
Laboratory reporting of norovirus in England was impacted more than Campylobacter by the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a study.
Researchers investigated the link between lab reporting of the two pathogens,
The number of people diagnosed with a foodborne illness in Denmark fell sharply in 2020, according to an annual report on infections.
The report by the National Food Institute, Technical
Record levels of Campylobacter and Salmonella have been recorded in Australia, according to the annual surveillance report of notifiable diseases for 2016.
The data comes from a study published in
Austria saw a decline in Salmonella and Campylobacter infections in 2020, according to annual figures released recently.
The country also reported data for Listeria, botulism poisoning and Yersinia which were
