The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)/World Health Organization (WHO) Joint Expert Meeting on Microbiological Risk Assessment (JEMRA) has published a report on control measures for foodborne viruses.
The report is a continuation of JEMRA’s work to review recent scientific developments, data, and evidence associated with foodborne viruses. As part of this work, in December 2024, JEMRA published a report ranking the most important foodborne viruses and virus-food commodity pairings, which identified human norovirus as the leading cause of foodborne illness, especially associated with prepared foods, frozen berries, and shellfish. Hepatitis A virus contamination of shellfish, frozen berries, and prepared foods and hepatitis E virus contamination of pork and wild game were also identified as virus–commodity pairs of concern.