Maybe these aren’t mysteries but food science problems that will be quickly solved like all the others. Or not. The Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza (HPAI) is a highly contagious disease and o...
A Salmonella outbreak in Denmark has now affected 40 people with ground meat suspected as the source. In less than a month, at least 40 people have been infected with the same type of Salmonella,...
https://www.foodsafetynews.com/2024/05/danish-salmonella-outbreak-grows-linked-to-ground-meat/
A new E. coli O157:H7 outbreak is under investigation and has been traced to organic walnuts. More than half of the infected people have been admitted to hospitals. The Food and Drug Administrati...
Public health officials in Finland are monitoring an increase in Yersinia infections seen so far in 2024. 168 Yersinia enterocolitica cases have been reported to the Infectious Disease Register c...
https://www.foodsafetynews.com/2024/04/finland-reports-yersinia-rise-and-2023-recall-data/
Twenty people have fallen sick, and five have died in a Listeria outbreak linked to fish that has been ongoing since 2019. Most cases have been recorded in Denmark, but there are two in Italy and...
https://www.foodsafetynews.com/2024/04/fatal-listeria-outbreak-linked-to-smoked-salmon/
Federal officials are continuing to investigate an outbreak of E.coli infections, but a source of the pathogen has not yet been found. The Food and Drug Administration first announced the outbrea...
https://www.foodsafetynews.com/2024/04/fda-looking-for-source-of-e-coli-in-multi-state-outbreak/
A dozen people have fallen sick in recent weeks in a Salmonella outbreak in Denmark. During March and April, 12 cases of Salmonella Typhimurium have been reported, said the Statens Serum Institut...
https://www.foodsafetynews.com/2024/04/salmonella-outbreak-sickens-12-in-denmark/
The number of Salmonella cases in England has returned to pre-COVID-19 pandemic levels and 11 outbreaks were reported in 2022. Salmonella Enteritidis went back to being the most frequently report...
Another brand of fresh, organic basil has been linked to an outbreak of Salmonella infections. Melissa’s-brand organic basil sold in 2-ounce and 4-ounce packages at Dierberg’s stores in Illin...
Public health officials in Michigan are again warning against drinking unpasteurized, raw milk, this time because of the highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) that has been found in dairy herd...
The 11th Circuit Court Of Appeals was scheduled to hear that five-year habeas corpus motion from Stewart Parnell but pulled it back. The second highest court in the land promises to re-assign the...
The Food and Drug Administration has identified a new outbreak of infections from E. coli O157:H7. The agency announced the outbreak on April 17 and indicated that traceback efforts have begun. H...
https://www.foodsafetynews.com/2024/04/new-e-coli-o157h7-outbreak-detected/
Fresh organic basil sold at Trader Joe’s stores is behind a multi-state outbreak of Salmonella Typhimurium infections. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is investigating the outbre...
About 10 days ago, after a second human case of Highly Pathogenic Avian Flu was announced, the Centers For Disease Control And Prevention (CDC) reworked its markup on the issue, not the message. ...
Part of a federal investigation into lead in certain cinnamon applesauce products has been shifted to a followup status. The new approach by the Food and Drug Administration is designed to provid...
People who ate at the Main Deck restaurant in Penn Yan, NY, between March 27 and April 12 were potentially exposed to the hepatitis A virus. Most people do not get sick when an employee at a res...
The FDA is warning consumers not to eat and restaurants and retailers not to sell certain raw, frozen oysters from Korea because of an outbreak of norovirus infections. The California Department ...
The Food and Drug Administration has identified a new outbreak of Salmonella infections. As of April 10 the agency was reporting 11 patients in the outbreak, but it did not report where the patie...
https://www.foodsafetynews.com/2024/04/no-source-yet-in-new-salmonella-outbreak/
Federal officials say a Listeria outbreak that spanned a decade is over. Two people died as a result of their infections. The Food and Drug Administration and the Centers for Disease Control and ...
New Zealand Food Safety has advised people not to consume a brand of unpasteurized, raw fruit juice as the company behind the products was not registered. The agency said it had become aware of a...
https://www.foodsafetynews.com/2024/04/raw-juice-from-unlicensed-firm-recalled-in-new-zealand/
The number of outbreaks almost doubled in Hong Kong in 2023 compared to the year before. Officials reviewed food poisoning outbreaks related to food premises and businesses reported to the Centre...
https://www.foodsafetynews.com/2024/04/recorded-outbreaks-jump-in-hong-kong-in-2023/
The Atlanta-based Centers For Disease Control and Prevention is ending the first quarter of the year with a handful of active foodborne illness investigations. CDC is the nation’s leading scien...
https://www.foodsafetynews.com/2024/03/cdc-ends-the-first-quarter-with-some-important-active-cases/
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have declared over a multi-state outbreak of foodborne infections from Raw Farms unpasteurized cheese. The E. coli O157:H7 outbreak sickened 11 peop...
https://www.foodsafetynews.com/2024/03/cdc-declares-outbreak-linked-to-unpasteurized-cheese-over/
A hepatitis E-positive meat product appears to be behind most of the infections that occurred earlier this year in Finland. The hepatitis E virus previously detected in sausages from a domestic m...
Officials in the United Kingdom are looking into an E. coli outbreak linked to chili sticks that has affected five people. The Food Standards Agency (FSA), Food Standards Scotland (FSS) and UK He...
The number of Cryptosporidium outbreaks involving an agency of the UK Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) increased in 2023. The Animal and Plant Health Agency (APHA) assi...
Researchers have shared details on one of the largest national Salmonella outbreaks in Sweden that was likely caused by produce. The Salmonella Typhimurium outbreak involved more than 100 con...
https://www.foodsafetynews.com/2024/03/pre-washed-salad-behind-swedish-salmonella-outbreak/
Very high levels of sodium nitrite have been detected in samples of meat sent for analysis as part of investigations into the death of one person in Poland. The National Veterinary Research Insti...
The Food and Drug Administration has issued a warning about certain mussels from Allen’s Fisheries in Newfoundland, Canada, that were imported to the United States. On March 1 the New Jersey De...
Finnish officials are investigating the connection between a hepatitis E-positive meat product and a rise in infections in the country. In January and February, 81 hepatitis E cases from differen...
https://www.foodsafetynews.com/2024/03/meat-recalled-as-finland-deals-with-hepatitis-e-rise/