Pregnant women and those with weakened immune systems have been advised against eating ready-to-eat (RTE) cold-smoked or cured fish.
The advice comes from a risk assessment by the Food Standards
Three people have died in Sweden as part of a Listeria outbreak that may have been caused by smoked fish.
Folkhälsomyndigheten (the Public Health Agency of Sweden) said deaths of
Food safety authorities covering England, Wales and Scotland have opened a comment period on the rates of checks for selected food and feed of non-animal origin from certain countries.
Proposed
The European Commission is to lift import restrictions for food from Japan following the accident at the Fukushima nuclear power station in 2011.
Ursula von der Leyen, president of the
The Food and Drug Administration is continuing its use of import alerts to enforce U.S. food safety regulations for food from foreign countries. The agency updates and modifies the
Almost 250 Salmonella infections in the United Kingdom since the start of 2023 have been linked to travel to Turkey.
The UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) has shared steps to
TORONTO — Two sessions at the International Association for Food Protection (IAFP) conference dealt with the complexities of Listeria and performance standards.
Sanjay Gummalla, from the American Frozen Food Institute (AFFI)
Almost half of respondents to a survey in Northern Ireland have been served raw or undercooked meat at a barbecue.
The poll revealed 45 percent of barbecue-goers in summer were
Four people have been infected with Listeria in Norway after eating smoked fish from one producer.
The Norwegian Institute of Public Health (FHI) reported that three women and one man
The much anticipated streaming of the documentary “Poisoned” hits Netflix on August 2. The film, based in part on a best selling book by the same name, has been in
Spanish health officials are investigating four confirmed and three probable foodborne botulism cases.
The Spanish Agency for Food Safety and Nutrition (AESAN) said cases have occurred in several different regions.
TORONTO – Using crowdsourced data for foodborne outbreak investigations can work but poses a number of challenges, according to a session at the International Association for Food Protection (IAFP) conference.
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