Authorities in Singapore are investigating almost 50 gastroenteritis cases and more than 20 hospitalizations linked to eating at one outlet of the Spize Restaurant chain.
The Ministry of Health (MOH), National Environment Agency (NEA) and
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The UK Food Standards Agency (FSA) has called for views on proposed changes to its E. coli O157 guidance.
The document helps businesses comply with food hygiene legislation and control cross-contamination with E. coli O157.
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A 50-year-old woman has been charged in relation to contamination of strawberries with sewing needles in Australia.
My Ut Trinh was arrested on Sunday and appeared at Brisbane Magistrates Court yesterday, Nov. 12. She had
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A unit of the Dutch Food and Consumer Product Safety Authority (NVWA) has searched a meat processing facility suspected of selling products without the required accreditation.
The Intelligence and Investigation Service (IOD) of the NVWA
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The controlling shareholder in Brazil’s JBS S.A., which in turn owns Greeley, CO-based JBS USA, is once again in federal custody in Brazil. Federal Police returned former JBS Chairman Joesley Batista to prison Friday morning,
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The UK’s Food Standards Agency has welcomed the manslaughter conviction of two men after a teenage girl died due to an allergic reaction to a takeaway meal.
Mohammed Abdul Kuddus, 40, and Harun Rashid, 38,
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Researchers from a German institute have expanded knowledge about produce harboring antibiotic resistance genes that often escape traditional molecular detection methods.
These antibiotic resistance genes might evade cultivation-independent detection, but could still be transferred to
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Tiger Brands and Stellenbosch University have established South Africa’s first Centre for Food Safety.
The center is an applied food science research consortium started by Stellenbosch University and industry, with Tiger Brands as its founding
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Researchers have investigated the prevalence of Bacillus cereus in infant formula sold in China.
No legal microbiological criteria for the pathogen in powdered infant formula (PIF) and powdered follow-up formula (PFUF) exists in the country.
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The third in a series of four reports on synergies of official controls with food business operators’ internal protocols has been published.
It covers a fact finding mission to Belgium in Sept. 2017. Reports on
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For the second time this month a company in Puerto Rico is recalling a meat product shipped to schools and other institutional kitchens in the territory because of a complaint about metal pieces.
This time
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