Figures from Belgium show the number of outbreaks and people sick in them declined in 2023.
The Federal Agency for the Safety of the Food Chain’s (FASFC) annual report reveals that 722 outbreaks were reported: 3,194 people were affected, 76 were hospitalized, and one died. This is lower than the
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The number of outbreaks and people sick in them was higher in 2022 than the year before, according to the Belgian food agency.
Belgium recorded 830 outbreaks in 2022 compared to 547 in 2021, with 4,247 people affected compared to 2,070 in 2021. In 2022, 125 people were hospitalized, and
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Experts in Belgium have taken part in an exercise to improve management of foodborne outbreaks in the country.
The event, coordinated this past month by Sciensano, the national public health institute, covered a fictional Salmonella outbreak.
The simulated exercise was developed by the One Health European Joint Program (OH-EJP), the
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An additional 200 outbreaks were recorded in Belgium in 2021 versus the year before, according to the Federal Agency for the Safety of the Food Chain (FASFC).
There was a significant increase in the number of food poisoning outbreaks from 333 in 2020 to 547 in 2021. The number of
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Researchers have evaluated Belgium’s surveillance system for Salmonella infections and the potential role of whole genome sequencing.
Surveillance of salmonellosis in Belgium depends on voluntary referral of human Salmonella isolates to the National Reference Center (NRC). Isolates are accompanied by a form with epidemiological information that includes the age, gender,
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More than 330 outbreaks affected more than 1,200 people in Belgium in 2020, according to the food agency’s annual report.
The 333 outbreaks sickened 1,262 people with 27 needing hospital treatment. Two elderly people died, one due to Salmonella and the other Shiga toxin-producing E. coli (STEC) infection, but a
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The Belgian food safety authority has had to step in less this summer at youth camps following outbreaks of food poisoning.
The Federal Agency for the Safety of the Food Chain (FASFC) intervened twice in youth camps following incidents related to food poisoning in 2020, which is four times less
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Belgium has recorded the highest number of foodborne outbreaks in a year since recordkeeping began.
This past year, 571 outbreaks were reported to the National Reference Laboratory for Foodborne Outbreaks (LNR-TIA). A total of 2,457 people fell ill and 28 were hospitalized.
Data on outbreaks have been collected by Sciensano,
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Two people in Belgium have been infected with the same type of Listeria behind an outbreak in the Netherlands with European agencies investigating illnesses in other countries.
Belgian media cited a report from Sciensano, the Belgian Institute for Health, and agency officials confirmed to Food Safety News that the details
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A Salmonella outbreak that sickened almost 200 people at a Belgian school was likely caused by eggs used to make a tartar sauce, according to authorities.
The Agency for Care and Health (Zorg en Gezondheid) and Federal Agency for the Safety of the Food Chain (FASFC) investigation detected Salmonella in
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