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A recent study found the majority of vegan meat and dairy alternatives available in England to be of satisfactory microbiological quality. Tofu from one producer had a Listeria problem.

The UK Food Standards Agency’s National Food Crime Unit has made an arrest as part of an ongoing investigation into a case of suspected food fraud.

A Purdue University professor has been awarded $10 million in funding from the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) to extend the work of the Feed the Future Innovation Lab for Food Safety (FSIL) for another five years.

Between 2017 and 2019, Canadian public health laboratories transitioned to whole genome sequencing (WGS) for foodborne illness outbreak surveillance. A recent study shows the positive impact of this transition of national outbreak detection and response for important foodborne pathogens. 

The “Use and Impact Of Codex Texts: Report of The Codex Survey 2023” showed an 80 percent satisfaction rate among Codex members with Codex Alimentarius texts, but low- and middle-income countries noted a lack of awareness as a significant barrier to adoption. 

As a result of Operation OPSON 2024—an EU-wide coordinated effort targeting fraudulent and counterfeit foods—22,000 tons of food and 850,000 liters of beverages, totaling €91 million, were removed from the market.

On November 6, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) will hold a technical seminar on artificial intelligence (AI) for food safety, a virtual livestream of which will be available for public viewing. 

The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and World Health Organization (WHO) recently published a new document that weighs the food safety risks against the nutritional benefits of fish consumption.

The dairy sector contributes significantly to the resilience and economic viability of farmers and rural communities. Most of the milk produced across the world comes from either independent, family-owned farms or smallholder farms and cooperatives, rather than from large, corporate farming operations.

Published in CDC’s Emerging Infectious Diseases, one of the largest-ever whole genome sequencing (WGS) analyses of Campylobacter in Africa found antimicrobial resistance (AMR) in 75 percent of human and poultry isolates from Tanzania and Kenya.