The Food Safety Authority of Ireland has found some stores in the country had “deficiencies” in procedures to withdraw or recall food.
An audit showed four stores had no processes in place to effectively deal with the withdrawal or recall of a food supplied by a local supplier, e.g. meat
Continue Reading FSAI audit finds problems with retailers’ recall procedures
At least 23 people have been infected with Salmonella in an Australian state from an outbreak linked to eggs. Eggz on the run Pty Ltd. has recalled 12 Glendenning Farms whole shell eggs in cartons and bulk trays as part of the investigation.
The New South Wales Food Authority reported
Continue Reading Australian officials report Salmonella outbreak in Sydney linked to shell eggs
The European Commission is to appoint a new director-general in its health and food safety department from next month.
Anne Bucher, a French national, has worked for the Commission for 35 years across several departments and will head the Directorate-General for Health and Food Safety (DG SANTE) beginning Oct. 1.
Continue Reading EU health and food safety department to get new director-general
The World Health Organization is encouraging all countries to look at how whole genome sequencing can be used to improve their foodborne disease surveillance and response system.
Used as part of such a system, whole genome sequencing (WGS) can increase the speed with which illnesses and food contamination are detected
Continue Reading WHO seeks to expand international use of whole genome sequencing
A new agency has been created in Singapore to oversee food safety beginning in April next year.
The Singapore Food Agency (SFA) will be under the Ministry of the Environment and Water Resources (MEWR). It will bring together food-related functions currently handled by the Agri-Food and Veterinary Authority of Singapore
Continue Reading Singapore Food Agency to begin food safety oversight in 2019
Increased use of ingredient-based analyses is being promoted by researchers after the method was used to identify the source of infection in an E. coli outbreak.
Public Health England was alerted to an outbreak of Shiga toxin-producing E. coli (STEC) O157 phage type
Continue Reading Analysis shows source of E. coli outbreak was leafy greens
New information out of South Africa shows 1,053 people have been confirmed with Listeria infections in the past 18 months. One in five has died in what the World Health Organization has determined to be the largest listeriosis outbreak in recorded history.
Infants
Continue Reading New listeriosis cases down; newborns remain hardest hit
Shell eggs from an Indiana farm that have been recalled in the United States because a Salmonella outbreak were also shipped to several other countries.
Rose Acre Farms of Seymour, IN, recalled 207 million eggs distributed in the United States in mid-April. As of April 16, there were 23 people
Continue Reading U.S. eggs linked to Salmonella outbreak were also sent overseas
An E. coli outbreak in Canada that was initially linked to a restaurant in Edmonton, Alberta, has grown to include people who do not have any connections to Mama Nita’s Binalot, and one of them has died.
Described as “extremely complex” by Dr. Chris Sikora, medical officer of health for
Continue Reading Canadian officials still searching for source of E. coli outbreak
Authorities in South Africa continue to remind the public how to decrease the risk of contracting foodborne Listeria infections amidst an outbreak that has sickened almost 1,000 and killed at least 176.
World health officials have said it is the largest known outbreak from Listeria monocytogenes bacteria.
Public health officials
Continue Reading Listeria toll nears 1,000 in South Africa; source undetermined
