The European Food Safety Commission (EFSA) has published guidelines for reporting whole genome sequencing (WGS) data to its One Health WGS System, which will support outbreak investigations and other EFSA activities.
However, the reduction has not translated to a decrease in salmonellosis cases associated with contaminated poultry.
June 27, 2022
As part of an assessment of the efficacy of performance standards that were established in 2015, The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (USDA’s FSIS) has published new findings about Salmonella contamination of chicken parts.
At the IAFNS 2022 Annual Meeting and Science Symposium, Dr. Felicia Wu discussed her recent study that suggests aflatoxin will become an increasing problem for U.S. corn producers—especially in the Corn Belt—and explored possible solutions.
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit has overturned the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA’s) decision that glyphosate is safe for humans, stating that EPA ignored glyphosate’s dangers to humans and the environment.
Sesotec has announced the new Compliance Package software for its foreign body detection equipment, which ensures that food production is compliant with regulations.
In this episode of Food Safety Matters, we speak with Dr. Charles Hofacre, the Principal at The Southern Poultry Research Group, and Dr. Bill Potter, a Food Safety Technical Advisor at Elanco Animal Health, about a multi-hurdle approach to controlling Salmonella in poultry, pre-harvest intervention strategies for pathogen contamination, and USDA’s renewed focus on Salmonella in poultry.
Faced with oat shortages domestically, some food manufacturers have looked to international sources of gluten-free oats with mixed success due to concerns about comingling. One option for obtaining high-quality oats is to source oats that are certified as gluten-free.
The Swiss Association of Cantonal Chemists recently published an inspection report that revealed deficiencies in controls for Listeria monocytogenes among food businesses.
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