The Food and Drug Administration continues using import alerts to enforce U.S. food safety regulations for food from foreign countries. The agency updates and modifies the alerts as needed.
A Codex committee has made progress on guidelines for preventing and controlling food fraud.
The draft guidance has been sent to the Codex Alimentarius Commission for adoption, which will meet
A state in Brazil has reported half a dozen botulism cases so far this year, including two deaths.
Bahia’s Epidemiological Surveillance confirmed this week that another case of botulism
The number of outbreaks and people sick in them in the Netherlands has gone down compared to the previous year, according to statistics recently reported.
In 2023, 911 outbreaks were
The Animal and Plant Health Agency (APHA) has been involved in four E. coli outbreak investigations so far this year in the United Kingdom.
A Shiga toxin-producing E. coli (STEC)
An analysis has revealed that self-reported illness appears to have increased when restrictions related to the Coronavirus pandemic were lifted.
The findings come from two reports published by the Food
Ireland and Canada have donated thousands to support food safety and agriculture trade efforts.
Ireland’s donation of €200,000 ($223,000) will support Standards and Trade Development Facility (STDF)
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has backed European plans to use whole genome sequencing (WGS) to help solve outbreaks.
The European Commission recently asked for comments on
A rare type of Salmonella has sickened 20 people in Denmark and 17 in Austria.
Since July, the Statens Serum Institut (SSI) has recorded 20 cases of Salmonella Umbilo.
There
Dutch scientists have created a framework that can be used when looking into the reuse of water on food crops.
The National Institute for Public Health and the Environment (RIVM)
Argentina has approved a new national plan on the prevention and control of Trichinella.
The National Service for Agri-Food Health and Quality (Senasa) said the move updates the regulations on
The Food and Drug Administration continues using import alerts to enforce U.S. food safety regulations for food from foreign countries. The agency updates and modifies the alerts as needed.
