The collection of data for the purpose of managing food safety includes both monitoring and surveillance. Monitoring is a system of collecting, analysing and disseminating data. SurveilAs Europe's E.coli crisis wanes, some experts are now warning of a looming threat: possible long-term kidney complications for many of the victims. Many of the roughly 3,200 E coli patients are returning home, and only a handful of new cases are bein
Strain from the sprouts is identical to strain from the infected patients. Scientists of the National Reference Laboratory for Escherichia coli at the Federal Institute for Risk Assessment (BfR) have confirmed the results of the Land authorities in N
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BRUSSELS -- The European Union will hold an emergency meeting on Tuesday on the contaminated food crisis and its economic impact. EU farm ministers will convene at short notice in Luxembourg amid demands from farmers that they be compensated for the
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Source of outbreak that has killed 16 people remains a mystery as row spreads across Europe and Spain counts cost of ban on its vegetables.
The mystery E.coli outbreak that has killed 16 people escalated into a pan-European row on Tuesday as Germany
The FSA today publishes its 'Annual Report of Incidents 2010'. The report includes case studies of some of the 1,505 incidents we handled during 2010, and which contributed to our overall strategic objective of safer food for the nation.
The report,
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Please see the link to our Guide to Training Opportunities for Food Safety Professionals document which is designed as a guide to institutions and organisations within the European Union that have an expertise in food safety and offer specialised t
The European Food Safety Authority has published a guidance document for the risk assessment of engineered nanomaterial (ENM) applications in food and feed. The guidance is the work of the Authority’s Scientific Committee and is the first of its kind
Dietary exposure to a range of chemicals that can migrate from packaging into food is low and poses no risk to human health, according to research from government food safety experts in Australasia.
Food Standards Australia New Zealand (FSANZ) commi
A new study of foot-and-mouth disease shows that cattle afflicted with the virus are only infectious for a brief window of time—about half as long as previously thought. This finding suggests that the controversial control measures used to halt the d
Campylobacter, Salmonella and Listeria are among a handful of foodborne pathogens that cost the US billions of dollars a year and blight the quality of life for millions of victims, according to new research.
The study from the University of Florid
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Cork City Council has said tests have shown that the local water supply was not the source of an outbreak of cryptosporidium in the city suburb of Bishopstown.
A number of children were affected by the bug which causes severe vomiting and diarrhoea. C
Please click here to read the Global Food Safety Initiative Newsletter 04 2011
Scientists monitoring radioactivity levels in beef, pork, lamb and grain are confident they will not find any significant levels in Irish produce.
The statement comes after minute traces of radioactive Iodine-131 were detected in three milk samples l
