The World Health Organization (WHO) and other agencies are calling on countries to suspend the sale of certain live caught wild animals in food markets.
WHO, the World Organization for Animal Health (OIE), and United
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There is not a one size fits all solution when it comes to managing chemical hazards, according to PepsiCo.
Alex Mendes, vice president of global food safety and microbiology at PepsiCo, spoke recently about chemical
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Experts are to meet for the second time later this month to work on the WHO’s global strategy for food safety.
The World Health Organization (WHO) created a Technical Advisory Group (TAG) on food safety
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Introduction of the novel coronavirus through food chain products has been judged a possible pathway, according to a report on how COVID-19 spread to humans.
A group of international scientists assembled by the World Health
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The World Health Organization (WHO) is looking for a consultant to help update estimates on the burden of foodborne diseases.
The agency’s Foodborne Disease Burden Epidemiology Reference Group (FERG) published the first global report on
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The WHO and FAO interim guidelines on COVID-19 and food safety are flawed, according to one expert who is hoping a planned update will solve the problem.
Roger Cook said the Food and Agriculture Organization
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National studies on foodborne diseases are needed to help a country set its food safety priorities, according to researchers.
An international team said precise national estimates are essential to rank diseases and hazards in a
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Experts will discuss updates to the WHO’s strategy for food safety later this month.
The international organization’s Technical Advisory Group (TAG) on Food Safety is scheduled to meet virtually for the first time from Feb.
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The International Food Safety Authorities Network (INFOSAN) worked on fewer incidents in the final three months of 2020 compared to the previous quarter.
During the fourth quarter (4Q) of this past year, INFOSAN was involved
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The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) is to develop a new food safety strategy.
The Committee on Agriculture (COAG), held virtually from Sept. 28 to Oct. 2, 2020, agreed to support
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The Coronavirus pandemic, why producing food is not like selling T-shirts, and technology’s role in outbreak investigation were highlights of a talk today by a food safety expert at the World Health Organization.
Peter Ben
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