The bill’s passage by the California State Assembly comes on the heels of two other food safety-related bills authored by Assemblymember Jesse Gabriel and passed into law.
Science plays a fundamental role in food safety risk assessment. This special World Food Safety Day article examines the complementary role of "art," encapsulated by human skills and execution, in ensuring food safety.
FAO Senior Food Safety Officer Markus Lipp and FAO Director General Qu Dongyu both delivered recent messages emphasizing the fundamental role that science plays in achieving food safety goals around the globe.
A key component of the project was a field and laboratory study conducted to assess the presence and potential transmission of AMR Campylobacter and Escherichia coli during the processing of chicken in two similar-sized, large-scale UK chicken processing sites.
As of May 30, 45 people across 18 states have been infected, compared to 26 people across 15 states who had been infected with the outbreak strain of Salmonella as of May 19.
American Feed Industry Association criticizes the MAHA Report for unjustly blaming health concerns on modern food and agriculture while ignoring current regulatory systems designed to promote public and animal health.
The news comes on the heels of the Trump Administration’s “Make America Healthy Again” (MAHA) Report specifically citing titanium dioxide as a food chemical potentially having harmful effects on health.
Noting that food hygiene rating schemes are already in operation in several European countries, the Food Safety Authority of Ireland is calling on consumers and food businesses to share their views through an online consultation that will run until June 23, 2025.
Using 1,204 samples collected during 2016–2023, the researchers observed statistically significant reductions in the median time from sample collection to the issuance of a national genomic surveillance report to 26 days, despite sample numbers doubling in 2022 and 2023.
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