The journal Parasite Epidemiology and Control recently published a study that analyzed information from 35 European countries, broken down by five different regions. 

Acting U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Secretary Kevin Shea and Acting U.S. Food & Drug Administration (FDA) Commissioner Janet Woodcock, M.D., recently released a statement on the transmission of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19.

The Food Standards Agency recently released the results of a survey of 1,194 participants, originally surveyed during March 2017, regarding food safety and food poisoning.

Fresh Del Monte Produce and Queensland University of Technology of Brisbane, Australia, are partnering on a project to develop disease-resistant bananas.

Research scientists have discovered how harmless Escherichia coli gut bacteria in chickens can mutate—picking up the genes necessary to evolve, and thus causing infections in poultry and humans. 

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has issued a final guidance, Use of an Alternate Name for Potassium Chloride in Food Labeling, to advise food manufacturers that it intends to use "potassium salt" in the ingredient statement on food labels, instead of "potassium chloride."

Scotland will begin implementing stricter labeling rules on certain food products later in 2021. 

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) held a series of three virtual one-day public meetings at the end of 2020 to discuss the recently released proposed rule "Requirements for Additional Traceability Records for Certain Foods" (Food Traceability Proposed Rule).

The U.S. Food & Drug Administration's (FDA's) CORE Response Teams recently released a table showing outbreak investigations that they are managing. Some of the investigations only have a small amount of information at this time, whereas others are nearly complete.