The Romaine lettuce E. coli O157:H7 outbreak that has sickened at least 32 people in 11 states in the United States has also sickened 22 people in Canada, according to Public Health Canada. Romaine lettuce has been identified as the outbreak source i
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Today (26 November 2018), Food Standards Scotland and the Food Standards Agency have published the report of a four year research project which provides important new evidence on E. coli O157 - a bacterium carried by cattle which can cause serious il
The FDA, along with CDC, state and local agencies, is investigating a multistate outbreak of E. coli O157:H7 illnesses likely linked to romaine lettuce. The Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC) and Canadian Food Inspection Agency, are also coordinat
Vytenis Andriukaitis made the comments at the Ecological Agriculture and Food Safety Forum organized by the
EARS-Net data for 2017 show that antimicrobial resistance remains a serious threat in Europe. For invasive bacterial infections, prompt treatment with effective antimicrobial agents is especially important and is one of the single most effective inte
Mark your calendar for this year’s European Antibiotic Awareness Day (EAAD).
European Antibiotic Awareness Day takes place ever year on 18 November to raise awareness about the threat to public health from antibiotic resistance and the importance of
Researchers have developed a wireless system that leverages the cheap RFID tags already on hundreds of billions of products to sense potential food contamination -- with no hardware modifications needed. With the simple, scalable system, the research
Soil contamination by pesticide residues has become an issue of increasing concern in the last few decades. Researchers from Wageningen University & Research tested 76 pesticide residues in agricultural topsoils from eleven EU countries. Over 80% of
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration released findings today from the initial phase of a 10-year study that is evaluating trends in food preparation practices and employee behaviors that contribute to foodborne illness outbreaks in the retail settin
safefood’s campaign ‘Rufus the Messy Monster’ aimed to help teach children the importance of washing their hands, how handwashing can be fun and why it’s really important. The campaign material also communicated that it is not just about getting chil
A 50-year-old woman has been charged in relation to contamination of strawberries with sewing needles in Australia. My Ut Trinh was arrested on Sunday and appeared at Brisbane Magistrates Court yesterday, Nov. 12. She had worked as a supervisor at a
EFSA has developed a new food safety management approach that makes it simpler for small retailers to donate food.
The simplified system would mean that retailers are not required to have detailed knowledge of specific hazards. It includes steps for
The Biotoxin Chemistry Laboratory Analyst will work as part of the Shellfish Safety Unit Team. This team is responsible for a wide range of monitoring and analytical services to clients including the Government, Food Safety Authority of Ireland, the
The European parliament has approved a suite of restrictions on the use of antibiotics on healthy farm animals in a bid to halt the spread of “superbugs” resistant to medical treatment.
Ready-to-eat salmon products, such as cold-smoked and marinated salmon, are the likely source of an outbreak of Listeria monocytogenes that has affected Denmark, Germany and France since 2015.
The European Parliament has voted for a complete ban on a range of single-use plastics across the union in a bid to stop pollution of the oceans. MEPs backed a ban on plastic cutlery and plates, cotton buds, straws, drink-stirrers and balloon sticks.
As part of the Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA), which charged the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in the US with establishing science-based standards for the safe production and harvesting of produce, two new, draft guidance documents have re
UK law on labelling allergens on food could be tightened as early as next summer, the parents of a teenager who died after eating a Pret a Manger sandwich have said after a meeting with Michael Gove.
Scientists have shown for the first time that humans are ingesting microscopic plastic particles in their food. Tiny particles of up to nine different types of plastic were found in every sample investigated - with people from the UK and seven other
The probability of infection by low pathogenic avian influenza (LPAI) through eating contaminated raw poultry meat or raw table eggs is “negligible”, according to estimates from the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA).
