This study investigated the factors and mechanisms by which significant foodborne pathogens enter the domestic kitchen, adapt to the conditions they find there, persist and spread, and are frequently transferred to human hosts.
It examined the chal
The Food Safety Authority of Ireland (FSAI) served a record 12 enforcement orders on food businesses across the State in October.
In addition to 11 closure orders issued to food businesses for breaches in food safety legislation the authority also iss
The FSA is inviting researchers to tender for a project exploring how food safety is considered during the procurement of food in the UK public sector, for example in schools and care providers.
The public inquiry into the 2005 E.coli O157 outbreak i
safefood has launched a new awareness campaign to highlight how germs that cause food poisoning can easily spread in the kitchen as research1 reveals 43% of kitchens were contaminated with raw meat bacteria after food preparation. Results from a seco
The FSA is inviting researchers to tender for two projects – one to develop a tool to identify good and bad aspects of the culture towards food safety in businesses, and the other to evaluate the risk of buying food through the Internet.
Recent outbre
The European Food Safety Authority has published its third Annual Report on Pesticide Residues, which gives an overview of pesticide residues found in food in the European Union during 2009 and assesses the exposure of consumers to those residues thr
IRELAND’S WATER is not as clean as we would like to think. The rate of cryptosporidiosis here is four times the EU average and higher than any other member state, according to the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control. “Another Galway-ty
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The world's 7 billionth person will be born into a population more aware than ever of the challenges of sustaining life on a crowded planet.
The world's 7 billionth person will be bo
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A creche in Limerick has been asked to close by the public health department of the Health Service Executive as a result of an outbreak of E.coli. The strain of E.coli has been identified as Verocytotoxige
11 October 2011: safefood, the all-island agency responsible for promoting food safety and healthy eating today launched eight new knowledge exchange networks to promote the use of science-based knowledge to further enhance the integrity and re
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The European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) has completed the first stage of a major piece of work that will provide the scientific basis for the modernisation of meat inspect
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The European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) has today revised its consumer advice on the consumption of sprouts and sprouting seeds. Following the E. coli outbreak in France and Germany earlier this
Instantaneous communication can both facilitate the investigation of outbreaks and purvey damaging misinformation
There must n
The US. Centers for Disease Control reported today that in 2008, 1,034 foodborne disease outbreaks were reported, which resulted in 23,152 cases of illness, 1,276 hospitalizations, and 22 deaths.
Among the 479 outbreaks with a laboratory-confirmed
Nearly 17 million people suffer from stomach upsets in the UK every year, leading to about 11 million lost working days, new research published today by the Food Standards Agency (FSA) has found.
The study, which is the biggest of its kind for more t
The European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) has issued a report with the latest Member State monitoring results of the levels of furan found in food. This is the third report on furan in food published by EFSA since 2009. With the inclusion of 2009 and
