Campylobacter rates in fresh chickens sold in the UK are continuing to fall due to the number of retailers removing neck skin. Neck skins of whole birds sold in retail are now heavily trimmed, removing the area of highest campylobacter contamination.
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As they struggle to deal with more extreme weather, a range of food crops are generating more of chemical compounds that can cause health problems for people and livestock who eat them, scientists have warned.
More than 400 people have been sickened by norovirus in Denmark by lettuce from France. Statens Serum Institut, DTU Fødevareinstituttet and Fødevarestyrelsen (SSI, the Technical University of Denmark and the Danish Veterinary and Food Administration)
Antimicrobial chemicals used as processing aids may lead to false-negative results in pathogen testing, according to a study.
The FSA have released their latest results from their survey of campylobacter on fresh shop-bought chickens. The results for January to March 2016 continue to show a decrease both in the number of birds with campylobacter on them and those with the h
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The wheels of justice turn slowly, but stomachs will churn rapidly over the toxic and counterfeit food products that police agencies have seized recently in 57 countries.
Care for an appetizer? How about 154 pounds of chicken intestines soaked in form
A "reckless" restaurant owner has been jailed for six years for the manslaughter of a customer who had an allergic reaction to a curry.
Paul Wilson, 38, suffered a severe anaphylactic shock in January 2014 after eating a takeaway containing peanuts fr
Oral administration of certain probiotics reduced uptake of the heavy metal, cadmium, in the intestines of mice, and in a laboratory experiment using human intestinal cells. The research, which might ultimately be applied to improving public health i
Are you a scientist with experience in chemical risk assessment? Do you want to make a difference to European food safety? Then apply to join the European Food Safety Authority’s two Scientific Panels dealing with food ingredients and packaging and b
Damaged equipment at a frozen food plant — described by federal inspectors as being impossible to clean — could be a contributing factor in a Listeriosis outbreak that began in 2013 and is ongoing.
Staff from the Food and Drug Administration inspected
When restaurants source from local growers, it can be more difficult to assess product safety—just another wrinkle in high-stakes efforts to keep our food from harming us. Just ask Chipotle. John A. Quelch discusses a recent case study on food testin
Everyone has heard of common germs like E.coli or influenza, but what about Streptobacillus moniliformis or Capnocytophaga? If not treated quickly, both can kill people within days. But they are so rare that doctors and labs probably have never seen
The Quaker Oats Co., a subsidiary of PepsiCo Inc., announced a voluntary recall of a small quantity of Quaker Quinoa Granola Bars after an ingredient supplier was found to have distributed sunflower kernels that may be contaminated with Listeria mono
The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) today announced new labeling requirements for raw or partially cooked beef products that have been mechanically tenderized. Consumers, restaurants, and other food service
safefood is an all-island implementation body set up under the British-Irish Agreement with a general remit to promote awareness and knowledge of food safety and nutrition issues on the island of Ireland.
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1. What does “nano” mean? How small is nano?
The prefix “nano” is used to describe a specific size range (like “milli-“ or “centi-“). One nanometre is a unit of measure of length that is equal to one-billionth of a metre, or one-millionth of a milli
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Both the Food Standards Agency (FSA) and the Food Safety Authority of Ireland (FSAI) have released advice against eating apricot kernels due to the risk of cyanide poisoning.
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The EU won't sacrifice its high food safety standards for better US auto market access in a transatlantic trade deal being negotiated, a German minister said Friday.
