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Bakery link investigated in hepatitis A outbreak in Germany

By News Desk on November 18, 2020

More than 20 people have been infected with hepatitis A in an outbreak in a German municipality.

There have been 23 infections in the community of Dummerstorf in the Rostock district of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern. Three more…
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Chemicals in food are a main safety concern for majority of Americans

By News Desk on October 20, 2020

Seven in 10 Americans are concerned about the presence of chemical products in food, according to a survey.

The poll by Mérieux NutriSciences and bioMérieux found 70 percent of respondents were troubled about this topic…
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Germany part of resurgent hepatitis A outbreak

By Joe Whitworth on September 23, 2020

The resurgence of a hepatitis A outbreak linked to strawberries underlines the importance of complete traceback of implicated products during outbreaks, according to researchers.

Following outbreaks linked to frozen strawberries in Sweden and Austria in…
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Experts affirm that coronavirus is ‘highly unlikely’ to be food risk

By Joe Whitworth on September 11, 2020

It is highly unlikely that SARS-CoV-2 is a food safety risk, according to an international group of scientists.

The International Commission for Microbiological Specifications of Foods (ICMSF) is a non-governmental organization and an observer to…
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Researcher presents method to detect norovirus in food

By News Desk on September 6, 2019

A rapid method to detect human noroviruses in food has been proposed in Finland.

The findings were part of a doctoral dissertation comparing four published extraction methods for detection of norovirus in lettuce, ham, and…
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Changing food sector could impact microbiological safety risks

By News Desk on July 26, 2019

Changes to the way food is produced, processed and offered to consumers could affect food safety, according to a microbiology society in the United Kingdom.

A Society for Applied Microbiology (SfAM) briefing looked at recent…
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Hepatitis A outbreak linked to school canteen food

By News Desk on June 27, 2019

Public Health England is investigating an outbreak of Hepatitis A linked to food eaten at a school canteen. A total of 17 people with Hepatitis A have been confirmed connected to Outwood Academy in Ripon,…
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WHO says climate change could have ‘considerable’ food safety impact

By Joe Whitworth on April 18, 2019

Climate change is likely to have considerable impact on food safety, placing public health at risk, according to the World Health Organization (WHO).

In its first publication on the topic, WHO officials said changing rainfall…
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EFSA assesses avian influenza risk from raw poultry and eggs

By News Desk on October 22, 2018

The probability of infection by low pathogenic avian influenza (LPAI) through eating contaminated raw poultry meat or raw table eggs is “negligible”, according to estimates from the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA).

EFSA said there…
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Why Don’t Viruses Get More Respect?

By Milt Hinsch on October 16, 2015

(This article by Milt Hinsch, MS, MBAC, was originally posted here and is reposted with his permission.) Imagine a submicroscopic packet of proteins arranged symmetrically to enclose an inner genome — and you have a…
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Global Microbe Genome Database Represents ‘Some Exciting Science’

By James Andrews on August 8, 2014

If the world’s food safety scientists act now, they have the opportunity to create a global network of microbial data that will dramatically improve the ability to track and combat disease outbreaks of all sorts,…
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