The Dutch food agency identified 5,700 possible violations in red meat and poultry slaughterhouses in the first half of 2022.
The Dutch Food and Consumer Product Safety Authority (NVWA) said this resulted in 401 written warnings or fines. Most issues found, in the more than 23,600 checks from January to
Continue Reading Dutch figures highlight issues at slaughterhouses; food safety compromised
On the 150th anniversary of the Irish Potato Famine, where starvation killed one million Irish, then British Prime Minister Tony Blair issued a statement that was taken as an apology by Her Majesty’s Government, for turning a potato blight into a human disaster.
The Blair statement blamed “those who governed
Continue Reading Letter From The Editor: Is the Dutch government going to say it’s sorry?
The main suspects in the 2017 fipronil in eggs scandal have been sentenced to a year in prison by a Dutch court.
Managers of Chickfriend and Chickclean were given 12 months in jail for using fipronil at poultry farms in the Netherlands and endangering public health.
The 28-year-old and 35-year-old
Continue Reading Two jailed in Netherlands for roles in fipronil scandal
Non-ambulatory veal slaughtered in the Netherlands will no longer be exported to the United States.
Dr. C.J.M. Bruschke, the chief veterinary officer for the Netherlands, has promised to keep veal calves that cannot walk from entering the U.S. food supply.
USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Service recently completed on-site audits
Continue Reading USDA completes equivalency audits for the Netherlands, Ireland and Costa Rica
Research recently published by scientists in The Netherlands shows that E. coli and Campylobacter bacteria are so common on goat and sheep dairy farms that pasteurization is necessary to prevent contamination of raw milk and products made with it.
The Dutch National Institute for Public Health and the Environment and
Continue Reading Researchers warn against raw milk, cheese after testing dairies
More than 40 cases of Hepatitis A have been reported in six European Union countries, according to the European Center for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDPC).
The 42 cases across Denmark, France, Germany, the Netherlands, Spain and the United Kingdom are infected with one of two distinct Hepatitis A virus
Continue Reading Food source suspected in Hep A outbreak in six EU countries
A federal warning about potentially contaminated veal imported from the Netherlands has been expanded to include additional products distributed to restaurants and grocery stores in four states.
The warning from the USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) now covers more than 1,600 pounds of Dutch veal that may be
Continue Reading Feds expand E. coli warning about Dutch veal imported to U.S.
Food Safety News wrote a lot about antibiotic resistance this year — particularly the debate surrounding the Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) plan to phase out the use of certain antibiotics in food animals, introduced in December 2013, and conversations sparked by the 16-month outbreak of multi-drug-resistant Salmonella Heidelberg linked
Continue Reading 2014 in Review: Animal Antibiotics
An independent report suggesting that the United Kingdom needs a special food police unit uses the Danes and the Dutch as examples and not the United States, where more than a dozen food industry executives this year have been subjected to investigations resulting in felony criminal charges. 
Professor Chris Elliott
Continue Reading New Food Police Unit Coming Soon to the UK
