The European Commission has released a number of reports which mention food safety in countries wanting to become members of the European Union.
The documents cover many areas and look at progress in the past
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Flexible food safety bylaws are making it easier for small-scale producers in Serbia to sell their products in formal markets.
These rules, in line with EU food safety and quality standards, include derogations for traditional
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Sweden is once again battling a rise in the number of Campylobacter infections after a temporary decline. A common source related to chicken has been identified.
Since August, the number of people who have contracted
Continue Reading Sweden hit again by increase in Campylobacter
Meat from backyard pigs was the source of a trichinellosis outbreak in France and Serbia in 2017.
Three patients were exposed in Serbia and took pork back to France where they shared it with relatives
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The Food and Agriculture Organization and European Bank for Reconstruction and Development are helping Serbian producers understand and comply with new hygiene laws.
The Serbian government approved hygiene bylaws on food products of plant origin,
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Insights into consumer attitudes about food safety in five countries have been published by the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA).
Findings come from data collected in November 2019 in Albania, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Serbia and
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Most soft fruits exported from Serbia to Europe are not subject to official controls at primary production levels, according to a recently released audit report.
DG Sante, the European Commission’s unit for policy on food
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European authorities have uncovered an operation allegedly making products out of decomposed apples, contaminated with mycotoxins and other toxic chemicals, unsuitable for human consumption and dangerous for public health.
Italian and Serbian authorities said they
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A new analysis applied to Northern Europe’s deadly 2011 E. coli O101:H4 outbreak calls the official assumption that the pathogen, spread by “its natural origin,” is “questionable.” Further, the Serbian-German researchers say that neither accidental
Continue Reading Europe’s 2011 Killer Pathogen Could Have Been Spread on Purpose or Accidentally
