People who consumed salads from US McDonald’s restaurants continue to suffer from Cyclospora infections, the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in Atlanta reports. As of Thursday (Aug. 23), CDC said there was a total of 507 lab
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According to Article 12 of Regulation (EC) No 396/2005, EFSA has reviewed the maximum residue levels (MRLs) currently established at European level for the pesticide active substance napropamide. To assess the occurrence of napropamide residues in pl
Repeated incidents of raw meat products as a source of infection shows the importance of risk awareness when handling or consuming such items, according to Dutch researchers investigating a Salmonella outbreak that sickened 46 people in 2015.
Researc
Ms. Stephanie Heaney has a BSc. Degree in Food Quality, Safety and Nutrition and is currently a PhD student within the Institute for Global Food Security, Queen’s University in Belfast. The safefood Training and Mobility Funding Programme provided h
Smartphones, tablets and other personal electronic devices, known as "PEDs", in the past decade have increasingly been found in the kitchen.
The only trouble is cell phones are well known for harboring bacteria, including “opportunistic human pathoge
Deadline: Tuesday 9 October 2018.
The Institute for Global Food Security sits within the School of Biological Sciences at Queen's. The Institute is leading the world in addressing one of the greatest global challenges - how to ensure the safety of o
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
Implementing whole genome sequencing at the European level could save up to five months in detecting multi-country Listeria outbreaks, according to a recent study.
More than half of severe listeriosis cases in the European Union are part of clusters,
More than half of the severe listeriosis cases in the European Union belong to clusters, many of which are not being picked up fast enough by the current surveillance system, suggests a new article published in Eurosurveillance. The large-scale study
The U.K. Government has launched the first of its "no-deal" Brexit scenarios for a number of different areas. There are to be approximately 70 notices in total, with the rest published between now and September.
With respect to Genetically Modified O
Laboratory analysis of 50 big-name baby foods showed the presence of at least one heavy metal in all of them, with two-thirds having “worrisome” levels, according to information from Consumer Reports. Researchers also said organic products were as li
After a massive international effort involving over 200 scientists across 20 countries, the entire wheat genome has finally been sequenced. Described as a "Herculean challenge," the wheat genome is known to be five times larger than its human counter
Deadline: 30th September 2018.
The Belfast Summit on Global Food Integrity (A.K.A. "The ASSET Conference") is very proud to announce a partnership with scientific publishing giant, Elsevier.
The Elsevier journal Food Research International will run
The European Commission's Joint Research Centre ("JRC") has prepared an update on pasture conditions in Europe, with a particular focus on regions in central and northern EU countries that have experienced exceptionally dry conditions.
Europeans continue to eat food that is largely free of pesticide residues or which contains levels of residues within legal limits, the latest monitoring figures show.
More than 96% of samples analysed for the latest annual report on pesticide residu
Regulation (EC) No 396/2005, the applicant Sumitomo Chemical AgroEurope SAS submitted a request to the competent national authority in Austria to set an import tolerance for the active substance mandestrobin in strawberries, table grapes and wine gra
Environmental Health Officers (EHOs) need to verify the validity of a food product's shelf life as declared by the food business operator. There is no generic method to estimate and set a food product's shelf life, because many different conditions c
We have now completed 7 of our 10 food safety workshops for small and medium-sized food businesses in association with Teagasc entitled Knowledge is Power: What you need to know to produce safe food for the consumer. These workshops provide practical
It is vital that staff working in the chemical analysis of food have a good understanding of ‘uncertainty of measurement’. It allows meaningful comparison of results against reference values or standards, for legislative purposes and it is also a req
In May, Queen’s University Belfast, Université Laval and safefood, hosted the inaugural Belfast Summit on Global Food Integrity which attracted over 600 delegates from 47 countries to the Waterfront Hall over four days. The Summit was a great success
