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
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
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
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
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
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.
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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
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
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
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
Continue Reading Listeria toll nears 1,000 in South Africa; source undetermined
