Experts have developed guidance to help food firms decide what other information to give consumers besides use-by or best-before dates to ensure food safety.
The European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) scientific opinion covers storage conditions,
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German officials have urged people to follow hygiene rules and take care when handling raw meat following a number of Salmonella infections linked to poultry.
The number of confirmed people sick stands at more than
Continue Reading Germany records Salmonella infections linked to poultry meat
More than 300 people were part of a Salmonella outbreak in Czech Republic and Slovakia in 2017 and 2018 that was traced to contaminated powdered egg products.
The probable outbreak cause was used as an
Continue Reading Spray dryer blamed in Salmonella outbreak with 325 sick
Swedish officials have traced the source of a Salmonella outbreak to a brand of chocolate wafers from Poland.
Between late December 2020 and early April 2021, 32 people living in 15 counties fell ill after
Continue Reading Salmonella outbreak in Sweden linked to chocolate wafers
Officials from Poland and the United Kingdom have met virtually to discuss the safety of Polish poultry meat after it was linked to several outbreaks.
Grzegorz Puda, Polish minister of Agriculture and Forestry, spoke remotely
Continue Reading Poland promises action to reassure UK on poultry meat safety
Ma Anand Sheela is in the spotlight again. The mastermind behind the largest bioterror attack in U.S history, that resulted in more than 700 Salmonella infections, is the subject of a new Netflix documentary.
“Searching
Continue Reading Former guru follower decries bio-terror guilt in new Netflix documentary
Thirty people in Guinea-Bissau have received training on HACCP and ISO 22000 as part of a project funded by the European Union.
The virtual training covered Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Point system (HACCP) and
Continue Reading UNIDO working to boost food safety knowledge in West Africa
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 modifications to FDA’s import alerts, as
Continue Reading FDA detains certain imported raw fish, coconut, canned foods at U.S. borders
An E. coli O157 outbreak in the United Kingdom that affected 36 people has been linked to a fast food product containing imported cucumbers.
Investigations into the Shiga toxin-producing E. coli (STEC) outbreak this past
Continue Reading Dutch cucumbers suspected in UK E. coli outbreak
Public health officials in Ireland have issued a warning following a large increase in cryptosporidium infections in the past month.
The Health Service Executive-Health Protection Surveillance Centre (HPSC) said the rise in the parasitic infections
Continue Reading Spike in cryptosporidium parasitic infections prompts warning in Ireland
