http://www.rte.ie/news/2011/1017/ecoli.html
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
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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
http://www.efsa.europa.eu/en/press/news/111003.htm?WT.mc_id=EFSAHL01&emt=1
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
http://www.efsa.europa.eu/en/press/news/111003a.htm
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
The attached document on "Shellfish allergy or shellfish toxicity?" may be of interest to you. Full article can be read by clicking the hyperlink featured within the document.
A 2 year+ KTP in collaboration with Queen's University Belfast position has become available within Avondale Foods.
Food Scientist/Biochemist - KTP Associate
Knowledge Transfer Centre and Avondale Foods Ltd
Queen's University Belfast
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The latest food scare involving dioxins has emerged in the Dutch egg industry.
Investigators are zoning in on an organic poultry unit which was supplying eggs to a packing station in Belgium. From there, the eggs were being sold to a retail chain in
Source: Food Ingredients First
Aug 29 2011
A better understanding of how bacterial toxins cause common human diseases may lead to their improved treatment and prevention according to a paper just published by Irish and US scientists in Nature Rev
IT’S ONE of the most famous stories of serendipitous discovery in science: in 1928 Alexander Fleming left some bacterial cultures on the lab bench when he went on holiday, an oversight that led to the development of penicillin when he returned home a
Meeting of safefood network on
Verocytotoxigenic E. coli (VTEC)
Teagasc Food Research Centre,
Ashtown, Dublin
October 20th 2011
This one-day conference will focus on various aspects of VTEC with a number of interna
Brussels, 9 August 2011 - The European Commission has decided to allocate an additional €12 million from the EU's Research Framework Programme to reinforce Europe's capacity for tackling pathogens like the virulent Escherichia coli (E.coli) bacteria
The European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) has published an assessment on the potential contribution of food and food-producing animals to the public health risks posed by bacteria that produce enzymes that makes them resistant to treatments with broa
