Source of outbreak that has killed 16 people remains a mystery as row spreads across Europe and Spain counts cost of ban on its vegetables.
The mystery E.coli outbreak that has killed 16 people escalated into a pan-European row on Tuesday as Germany
The FSA today publishes its 'Annual Report of Incidents 2010'. The report includes case studies of some of the 1,505 incidents we handled during 2010, and which contributed to our overall strategic objective of safer food for the nation.
The report,
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Please see the link to our Guide to Training Opportunities for Food Safety Professionals document which is designed as a guide to institutions and organisations within the European Union that have an expertise in food safety and offer specialised t
The European Food Safety Authority has published a guidance document for the risk assessment of engineered nanomaterial (ENM) applications in food and feed. The guidance is the work of the Authority’s Scientific Committee and is the first of its kind
Dietary exposure to a range of chemicals that can migrate from packaging into food is low and poses no risk to human health, according to research from government food safety experts in Australasia.
Food Standards Australia New Zealand (FSANZ) commi
A new study of foot-and-mouth disease shows that cattle afflicted with the virus are only infectious for a brief window of time—about half as long as previously thought. This finding suggests that the controversial control measures used to halt the d
Campylobacter, Salmonella and Listeria are among a handful of foodborne pathogens that cost the US billions of dollars a year and blight the quality of life for millions of victims, according to new research.
The study from the University of Florid
