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Dutch figures highlight issues at slaughterhouses; food safety compromised

By News Desk on May 25, 2023

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…

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Letter From The Editor: Is the Dutch government going to say it’s sorry?

By Dan Flynn on May 8, 2023

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…

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Two jailed in Netherlands for roles in fipronil scandal

By News Desk on April 14, 2021

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…
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USDA completes equivalency audits for the Netherlands, Ireland and Costa Rica

By Dan Flynn on February 21, 2020

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…
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Researchers warn against raw milk, cheese after testing dairies

By News Desk on June 21, 2018

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…
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Food source suspected in Hep A outbreak in six EU countries

By News Desk on May 23, 2018

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,…
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Feds expand E. coli warning about Dutch veal imported to U.S.

By News Desk on May 22, 2017

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…
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2014 in Review: Animal Antibiotics

By Lydia Zuraw on December 22, 2014

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…
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New Food Police Unit Coming Soon to the UK

By Dan Flynn on September 10, 2014

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…
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