The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) updated their investigation on the huge Cyclospora outbreak that has sickened more than 1,000 people in the U.S. this summer. As of September 27, 2017, there are 1,054 laboratory confirmed cases in 40 states of people who got sick this year. This is an increase of 23 cases since the last update on September 20, 2017.
Jadwiga O'Brien's Posts (245)
Sort by
All schools in the UK will be allowed to buy spare adrenaline auto-injectors for use on children with serious allergies in emergencies, following a change in the law.
The largest supplier of chicken to UK supermarkets has been tampering with food safety records in moves that could dupe consumers into buying meat past its use-by date.
For more than two years, bluefin tuna, a product so valued in gastronomy as scarce, is in the spotlight of traditional producers and sanitary authorities. The reason? Other fish from the same family are being traded as bluefin tuna.
The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has announced a $77 million investment in efforts to track and fight antibiotic resistance.
The money will be distributed to public health departments in all 50 states and Puerto Rico to help them combat antibiotic resistant bacteria in food, healthcare facilities, and communities, with a particular focus on enhancing testing capabilities in the agency's regional antibiotic resistance labs.
Tesco is spearheading a drive to reduce food waste, with 24 of its largest food suppliers – including Kerry Foods, Greencore and Bakkavor – committing to cutting food waste in their production processes.
European consumers could face increased exposure to “radioactive contaminated food” if checks placed on Japanese imports following the 2011 Fukushima nuclear disaster are relaxed, members of the European Parliament warn.
A federal court yesterday upheld the U.S. government’s Seafood Import Monitoring Program, which will require some imported seafood at risk of illegal, unreported and unregulated (IUU) fishing and seafood fraud to be fully documented and traced from the fishing vessel or farm to the U.S. border.
Rice and pasta products on sale in Italy will be required to carry country of origin labels from February.
In a meeting of the American Chemical Society, researchers presented their work on a paper sensor that can tell you when your food is spoiled. The technology could also help spot infectious bacteria or find medicinal herbs in the Amazon.
A tip the Dutch food safety authority NVWA received about the use of toxic fipronil on Dutch poultry farms in November last year, specifically mentioned Barneveld pest control company ChickFriend, Public Health Minister Edith Schippers confirmed in a letter to parliament, ANP reports.
Ships routinely transfer fish on the open ocean. Most of the time, no one's watching.
The use of antibiotics in factory farms in Asia is set to more than double in just over a decade, with potentially damaging effects on antibiotic resistance around the world.
The deadly Salmonella outbreak linked to imported Maradol papayas has now sickened at least 141 people in 19 states, according to the latest update from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
The Food Standards Agency (FSA) is confident that its plans for risk-based regulatory change under the Regulating our Future initiative will not be “knocked off course” by the outcome of the Brexit negotiations, currently underway.
A federally funded study has found that 20 per cent of sausages sampled from grocery stores across Canada contained meats that weren't on the label.
Two men have been jailed for their roles in a conspiracy to pass off 30 tonnes of horsemeat as beef – a plot “motivated by greed” that was one part of the wide-ranging horsemeat scandal that came to light in 2013.
A beef cow-calf operation is on notice from the Food and Drug Administration because of the presence of three drugs in edible tissue samples collected by the U.S. Department of Agriculture. Testing showed residue of one drug at more than 8,000 percent the amount allowed by law.
The UK is unprepared for the most complex ever change to its food system, which will be required before Brexit, according to a new briefing paper published by SPRU, the Science Policy Research Unit at the University of Sussex.
A large outbreak of food-borne salmonellosis involving more than 50 cases of infection in North Dublin is being investigated by public health specialists, IMTreports.
