The UN’s Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) is helping to create a hub to improve food safety in the Near East and North Africa region.
The FAO’s regional
A suspected outbreak of food poisoning that has sickened more than 100 people and killed three is being investigated in Italy.
Four nursing and residential care facilities (RSA) in the
The Food and Drug Administration uses import alerts to enforce U.S. food safety regulations for food from foreign countries. The agency updates and modifies the alerts as needed.
Recent
A project has been awarded funding to investigate a strain of Salmonella often found in cattle.
The grant will fund research to explore the genetic and phenotypic variations within Salmonella
At least 140 people have fallen sick in Iceland after eating food as part of a traditional feast.
On Jan. 31 and Feb. 1, Þorrablót, an Icelandic festival, was held
An industry group has called for a review of a body that is responsible for developing food policy in Australia.
Jolyon Burnett, chair of the NFF Horticulture Council, has written
Politicians have called for funding to be maintained for meat inspections after hearing evidence on the scale of products being seized at the border.
The Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Results of a French surveillance operation have been published, revealing the rate of contamination in fresh poultry meat at retail.
In France, Salmonella and Campylobacter are the two main bacterial
European public health officials are monitoring an outbreak linked to international travel on long-haul flights.
A cluster of 20 genetically linked Shigella sonnei sequence type (ST) 152 cases were first
Experts in Belgium have given reasons why they believe a second analysis is not needed when doing microbiological testing.
The Scientific Committee of the Federal Agency for the Safety of
European experts have looked into the microbiological quality of water used in processing fresh and frozen fruit, vegetables and herbs.
The quality of water and its industrial use is a
An inspection campaign in the Czech Republic has revealed problems with almost half of olive oil samples tested.
State Agricultural and Food Inspection Authority (SZPI) testing focused on the quality
