The National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD) has confirmed nearly 750 cases of Listeria in South Africa, including 67 deaths. This makes the Listeria outbreak the worst ever on record.
Today, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) Office of Enforcement and Import Operations director, Douglas Stearn, issued a notice stating plans to expedite public notification of products being recalled, including food products.
A new study by Utrecht University in the Netherlands and published in Veterinary Record—a British scholarly journal—says that raw pet foods (available in fresh, frozen and dried varieties) can be contaminated with a plethora of pathogens--Shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli (STEC) O157:H7, Listeria monocytogenes and Salmonella.
Yesterday, the Public Health Agency of Canada declared that the recent Shiga toxin-producing E. coli O157:H7 outbreak linked to romaine lettuce appears to be over.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration are still in the midst of investigating a multistate outbreak of Shiga toxin-producing E. coli O157:H7 infections (STEC O157:H7). In November and December, at least 17 consumers in 13 states were affected.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA’s) Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) has announced new plans to make egg products even safer for American consumers.
In this week's episode of Food Safety Magazine's Food Safety Matters podcast, Lee-Ann Jaykus discusses her work with NoroCORE, and how the foodservice industry can work to prevent and reduce norovirus outbreaks.
In an effort to educate the industry about the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA’s) Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA), the agency has put together a new web page that focuses on the FSMA Collaborative Training Forum.
Today, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) issued guidance that summarizes enforcement discretion for certain areas of the agency’s Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA) rules.
A series of new audits claim that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is not using its relatively recently expanded authority to conduct more food safety inspections, which in turn affects how food recalls are announced to the public.
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