I oversee the Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS), the public health regulatory agency within the U.S. Department of Agriculture. FSIS’ mission is clear: to ensure that the nation’s meat, poultry and processed egg products are safe, wholesome,
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The reality of living with a food allergy, the practicalities of good allergen management and the emerging opportunities and challenges in the food chain were all discussed at the Food Standards Agency’s first ever allergy symposium.
Researchers have called for increased awareness to reduce the risk of Campylobacter outbreaks linked to incorrectly cooked chicken liver dishes.
Communication from food safety and public health authorities may be required. Any strategy should ensure
Facebook should "take responsibility" for people using its website to sell food from their own homes, the Food Standards Agency has said.
The watchdog is warning that sellers who have not registered with or been inspected by their local councils coul
Over 3,460 consumer complaints were handled by the Food Safety Authority of Ireland’s (FSAI) Advice Line in 2019, with over half of those relating to complaints of unfit food and poor hygiene standards. Overall, the 2019 complaints saw a marginal inc
A foodborne source is one route being investigated as part of an increase of E. coli in Europe.
Between 2017 and 2019, the National Reference Centre for multidrug-resistant gram-negative bacteria and German health officials detected an increase in ox
Fraunhofer researchers are helping to develop a test to detect Salmonella in less than eight hours.
A team from the Fraunhofer Institute for Cell Therapy and Immunology, Branch Bioanalytics and Bioprocesses are working with the German microbiology an
Misinterpreting the differences between allergen-free food safety claims and dietary vegan claims are a cause for concern, flags the UK’s Food and Drink Federation (FDF). Consumers should not rely on a “vegan” logo if they have milk, fish, crustacean
A scientific review by the Food Standards Agency (FSA) estimating that around 2.4 million cases of foodborne illness occur every year in the UK has been published. This is up from the 2009 estimate of approximately one million.
The two annual surveys tested fresh chicken on sale in the UK, with one looking at certain types of antimicrobial-resistant (AMR) E. coli, and the other at AMR campylobacter. The results are from Year 4 of the surveys (2017 to 2018).
During 2017–2019, a comprehensive set of archived serum samples from 22,940 market-weight pigs from 25 slaughterhouses in 10 US states was collected for an unrelated prevalence study of Toxoplasma and Trichinella. The samples were collected from slau
Many people are rightly concerned about the spread of coronavirus, or 2019-nCoV, this new virus that causes symptoms similar to the flu. It is spreading rapidly, now in 28 countries and territories around the world, infecting more than 60,000 people
Tuesday 11 February, the Intelligence and Investigation Service of the Dutch Food and Consumer Product Safety Authority (NVWA-IOD) searched 2 homes and 3 business premises in different parts of the Netherlands. This was done in a criminal investigati
Thiseventis entitled “Modern technologies to enable response to crises: Next Generation Sequencing to tackle food-borne diseases in the EU” and it will take place at the Istituto Superiore di Sanità in Rome on 10 March 2020.
For your information, the
The Food Safety Authority of Ireland (FSAI) today reported that five Closure Orders were served on food businesses during the month of January for breaches of food safety legislation, pursuant to the FSAI Act, 1998. The Enforcement Orders were issued
Traceability is the overarching term, which describes the ability to trace the history of a (food) product through its production and full life cycle. This system of traceability is basically a record of where the product has been, who was in contact
The proposed extension to the shelf-life of fresh meat is still overly cautious, would hinder the industry's international competitiveness and threaten retailers and processors with prosecution, according to food scientists.
Almost 200 people have fallen ill after eating oysters in the United Kingdom in recent months.
Since November 2019 there have been at least 180 reported cases of gastroenteritis associated with oyster consumption linked to multiple food outlets and o
Lost in the clutter of Millennial trend tracking and menu minutia is the reality of restaurant risk related to poor handwashing. This is a no-fault failure as there are no operational standards, no rewards or discipline, no behavior changing help fro
The current testing regime in England for unpasteurized milk is not fit for purpose, according to researchers describing a 2016 Campylobacter outbreak that sickened 69 people.
They say there was a need for regular microbiological monitoring to detect
