Scientists are increasingly using a technique called molecular typing or DNA fingerprinting to investigate foodborne outbreaks. The wealth of data being generated is opening up exciting areas of research and innovative techniques for safeguarding Eur
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EFSA has published two Scientific Opinions on environmental risk assessment (ERA), with a third to follow shortly. Reinhilde Schoonjans explains the issues at the heart of this major project.
How is ERA relevant to EFSA’s work?
Environmental risk asses
The 43 EU Reference Laboratories (EURLs) will receive €32.5m for this and next year from the European Commission.
BEIJING, Jan. 27 (Xinhua) - Pesticide and chemical residue is the major sources of food contamination in China, the Chinese Academy of Engineering (CAE) has found.
Pesticide residue was detected in 146 kinds of fruit and vegetable in the past three
Listeria bacterium found in food, which can infect people and cause temporary gastro-intestinal distress, is a serious health risk for pregnant women and for people with compromised immune systems. According to a dissertation from Umeå University, Sw
The two most recent outbreaks linked to Chipotle Mexican Grill restaurants appear to be over, according to federal officials who say the root cause of the E. coli infections has not been determined.
Testing of fresh produce, meat and other foods from
Research is a critical part of food safety, many of the tools we have today have gone through much work being seeing the light of day. Food Quality News takes a look at some recent work.
More than 390 people have reported getting sick in a norovirus outbreak associated with a suburban Kansas City dinner theater.
The Kansas Department of Health and Environment (KDHE) initially said more than 100 people got sick after going to the New T
The rising popularity of rare burgers in the UK continues to worry food safety experts who fear that, unless proper controls are introduced on their sale in UK restaurants and their consumption at home, it will inevitably lead to more food poisoning
EFSA’s experts recommend refining the safety assessment of substances used in food contact materials, including the introduction of a more comprehensive approach to estimate consumer exposure, particularly for infants and toddlers. In the future, EFS
The new Dairy Research and Education facility at University College Dublin’s (UCD) Lyons Research Farm in the Republic of Ireland has been officially opened by the Irish Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine, Simon Coveney TD.
The firm linked to an EU-wide outbreak of Salmonella in 2014 from eggs has been permitted to bring products back to market.
EFSA and its European partners have taken a major step forward in their work on assessing the cumulative risks from exposure to pesticides. A software tool has been developed for carrying out exposure assessments of multiple pesticides. In a pilot st
Once again, the fresh produce industry has been hit with a deadly Listeria monocytogenes outbreak. The latest involves fresh-cut salad items, reportedly produced at a Dole processing plant in Ohio, (USA).
A study from the Institute of Food Research has provided new evidence on the background levels of spores of Clostridium botulinum in raw food ingredients that is helping the food industry deliver safe chilled foods more sustainably.
This consultation seeks stakeholders' comments on the proposed Food Hygiene (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2016.
Who will this consultation be of most interest to?
Food business operators in approved establishments producing and processin
The Public Health Agency of Canada is collaborating with federal and provincial public health partners to investigate an outbreak of Listeria monocytogenes infections in five provinces.
To date, the source of this outbreak has not been confirmed. How
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To combat the prevalence of Listeria monocytogenes in deli foods, the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA’s) Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) is launching a year-long nationwide pilot project aimed as assessing whether or not retailers ar
