The Acting U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Commissioner Janet Woodcock, M.D. and Susan Mayne, Ph.D., Director, FDA's Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition, recently released a statement about toxicity in baby foods and food for young children.
In 2020, the Food Safety Authority of Ireland (FSAI) investigated almost 50 unregistered food businesses, which is more than double the amount from 2019.
The European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) and European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control recently published findings in EFSA Journal that showed that the number of people getting sick and dying as a result of foodborne outbreaks in Europe went up in 2019.
The International Journal of Infectious Diseases recently published “Outbreaks of Foodborne Salmonella Enteritidis in The United States 1990–2015: Epidemiologic and Spatial-temporal Trends Analyses" in the journal's February issue.
A new article by the World Health Organization (WHO) is highlighting challenges of estimating the burden of foodborne diseases in locations with fewer resources and the role that international organizations play in helping countries develop capacity and conduct studies in these areas.