Researchers have detailed the first reported Clostridium perfringens outbreak in England associated with leeks in leftover and reheated cheese sauce.
In December 2018, public health authorities were alerted to 34 reports of diarrhea with abdominal
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Salmonella prevalence among Sweden’s dairy cattle herds is low but varies across the country, according to a study.
In late 2019, the National Veterinary Institute (SVA) and Swedish Board of Agriculture (Jordbruksverket), conducted an anonymous
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Patrick Quade, the crowdsourcing expert who founded iwaspoisoned.com has expanded beyond food safety with a health and safety community issue-reporting site that captures the public’s Covid-19 experiences.
Safely HQ is Quade’s second crowdsourcing platform. It
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The owner of a Spanish company linked to a large Listeria outbreak this past summer and his son have been provisionally released from custody.
The judge of a court in Seville agreed to the conditional
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The proportion of Listeria infections where a food source is identified is very small but increasing, according to researchers who looked at a 30-year period in England and Wales.
Between 1981 and 2015, there were
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A large proportion of Campylobacter infections are not sporadic and can be linked to outbreaks, according to a study in Denmark.
Campylobacter outbreaks are rarely reported, which may reflect limitations of surveillance testing as molecular
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America’s poultry industry says it does not use chlorine to bath slaughtered chickens “that much anymore,” but it is still lobbying hard on the issue that has kept American poultry out of Britain for more
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As part of its enforcement activities, the Food and Drug Administration sends warning letters to entities under its jurisdiction. Some letters are not posted for public view until weeks or months after they are sent.
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Ten people have been infected with Listeria monocytogenes in France linked to eating cheese from one company.
Authorities in Cantal, in the Auvergne region of France, ordered the business, Ferme de Gioux, to temporarily close
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A parliamentary committee in the United Kingdom has put forward an amendment to the Agriculture Bill to protect food standards.
Members of the cross-party Environment Food and Rural Affairs (EFRA) Committee made the move after
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