The German Federal Institute for Risk Assessment (BfR) has produced a book to teach children about food safety.
The book “Luis’ and Maya’s Adventure in the shrinking lab: Looking for Clues in the Kitchen” features Luis and Maya as two schoolchildren
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Germany has published data on foodborne outbreaks and infections for 2021, showing more than 130 outbreaks and a rise in most pathogens.
In 2021, 376 potentially food-related outbreaks (excluding norovirus) with 1,263 illnesses were reported to the R
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Invasive listeriosis is a severe foodborne infection in humans and is difficult to control. Listeriosis incidence is increasing worldwide, but some countries have implemented molecular surveillance programs to improve recognition and managem
Consumer knowledge in Germany of Toxoplasma was better than that of Campylobacter, according to a recent report on a study.
Researchers surveyed 1,008 consumers in August 2017 in Germany via an online panel on Campylobacter, Salmonella and Toxoplasma
The former managing director of an egg company in Germany linked to a multi-country Salmonella outbreak in 2014 has been given a suspended prison sentence of one year and nine months.
Stefan Pohlmann was sentenced at a court in the city of Regensburg
The Philippines Department of Agriculture has issued a ban on pork imports from Germany.
Officials are advising that mare’s milk should be heat treated to kill Brucella, despite the low risk of brucellosis in Germany.
The joint opinion from Federal Institute for Risk Assessment (BfR) and Friedrich-Loeffler-Institut (FLI) assessed to what
Around 50 people in five European countries have been struck down with a rare strain of Salmonella.
Salmonella Mikawasima has infected 15 people in Germany, 13 in Sweden, eight in both Denmark and the Czech Republic and six in Austria.
The Austrian A
In May 2018, EFSA and ECDC co-facilitated a workshop on preparedness for a multi-national food-safety / public-health incident. The workshop, hosted at AGES in Vienna, was conceived to closely align with EFSA’s Strategy 2020 commitment to prepare for
Salmonella in eggs has led to separate recalls in three European countries in a timely reminder for vigilance after a recent rise in infections from the pathogen ended a decade of decline.
Alerts were made in Germany, Italy, and Malta but no illnesse
Germany and the United Kingdom accounted for almost half of "STEC/VTEC" (i.e. "E. Coli") infection-cases in 2016, according to European statistics. The two countries also reported the most number of cases in 2015.
A total of 6,619 confirmed cases of
