An investigation has been opened into the supplier of a school feeding program in Peru after more than a dozen pupils fell sick earlier this year.
Prosecutors are following up allegations of bribery by a company that supplied food to schools, as part of the Qali Warma program, to avoid
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A food safety barometer in Belgium has found improvements in the country during the past decade.
The purpose is to measure food safety and enable evidence-based risk management and policy decisions. It consists of 30 indicators that cover various aspects of food safety from farm to fork.
It relies on
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Researchers have looked at patterns in sporadic Shiga toxin–producing E. coli (STEC) infections in Ireland.
The Republic of Ireland often reports the highest annual incidence rates of STEC in the European Union. There is a high proportion of sporadic STEC infections and they are often associated with environmental exposures.
Researchers
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A Centers for Disease Control and Prevention study has found that international trade of shellfish might be involved in the dispersal of Vibrio parahaemolyticus populations into the United States and Spain. The study found that severe weather, such as El Niño conditions in Peru, provide ideal conditions for the proliferation
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Researchers have found bacteria often associated with hospital infections in meat samples from markets in Peru.
The Barcelona Institute for Global Health (ISGlobal) led the study, published in the International Journal of Food Microbiology, which detected 12 Acinetobacter spp. isolates in five different beef samples from two markets in
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Three warning letters recently posted by the Food and Drug Administration cited food safety violations at a tofu production plant in California, a supplement company in Nebraska and a supplier of fish roe based in Peru.
Companies that receive FDA warning letters are given 15 days to respond in writing.
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Warning letters recently made public by the Food and Drug Administration addressed food safety violations at seafood processing operations in Portugal and Peru, dirty equipment and insects at a cider production facility in Kansas and improper use of antibiotics by a dairy in Minnesota.
Recipients of FDA warning letters have
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Peru’s unicameral Congress has apparently made a deal.
A new Peruvian consumer code will require that food labels disclose both organic and genetically modified ingredients. At the same time, a system of technical and scientific evaluations is being set up to allow for entry of genetically modified or transgenic seeds
