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FAO highlights ‘often neglected’ foodborne parasites

By News Desk on January 11, 2021

Officials have published a document highlighting ways to avoid the risks from foodborne parasites transmitted by pork, freshwater fish and crustaceans.

Foodborne parasitic diseases are often neglected in food safety control systems even though they…
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WHO and FAO look at Trichinella and Taenia saginata in meat

By Joe Whitworth on January 7, 2021

Experts have helped develop risk-based approaches to control two parasites in meat, requiring the re-evaluation of traditional practices and the assessment of regulatory and industry resources.

The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations…
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Dozens of Trichinella illnesses linked to wild boar meat

By News Desk on January 14, 2020

A number of patients with symptoms of Trichinellosis have been detected near the Italian city of Turin.

A statement from early January by health authorities put the number of people affected at 20 but this…
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STEC climbs into third while Listeria continues to rise in Europe

By Joe Whitworth on December 16, 2019

The number of Shiga toxin-producing E. coli infections in Europe jumped last year while the increasing trend of Listeria cases continued, according to an annual report on zoonoses.

The European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) and…
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EU notes rise in foodborne outbreak illnesses and deaths in 2018

By Joe Whitworth on December 13, 2019

The number of people getting sick, being hospitalized and dying in foodborne outbreaks in Europe increased in 2018, according to the annual report on zoonoses.

Salmonella caused almost one in three outbreaks last year with…
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Europe sees rise in trichinellosis cases

By News Desk on March 1, 2019

The number of trichinellosis cases in Europe increased by more than 50 from 2016 to 2017 following several years of decline.

For 2016, 13 countries reported 166 infections and 101 confirmed cases. In 2017, 15…
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EFSA identifies important foodborne parasites in Europe

By News Desk on December 6, 2018

Cryptosporidium spp., Toxoplasma gondii and Echinococcus spp. have been identified as important foodborne parasites in Europe.

Infection with these parasites in humans and animals, or their occurrence in food, is not notifiable in all member…
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CDC reports 2 trichinellosis outbreaks traced to walrus meat

By Coral Beach on July 7, 2017

Federal officials this week made public details of two outbreaks of Trichinella infections in Alaska in the past 12 months, both linked to undercooked walrus meat.

Long associated with undercooked pork, the majority of cases…
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