Recently, the Joint Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)/World Health Organization (WHO) Expert Meeting on Microbiological Risk Assessment (JEMRA) provided a review of foodborne viruses and relevant food commodities of highest public health concern, relevant analytical methods, and the potential utility of indicators.

The Joint Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)/World Health Organization (WHO) Expert Meeting on Microbiological Risk Assessment (JEMRA) will hold a meeting on September 18–22, 2023 in Rome, Italy to discuss food attribution, analytical methods, and indicators of viruses in foods.

New uses for existing technologies are being deployed in foodservice establishments to prevent persistent pathogens like Salmonella, and viral pathogens like norovirus and Hepatitis A, on surfaces where continuous sanitation and disinfection is needed. 

The European Center for Disease Control and Prevention (ECDC) has released 2021 epidemiological reports for common foodborne illnesses listeriosis, campylobacterosis, hepatitis A infection, Shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli (STEC) infection, salmonellosis, and yersinosis.

On Tuesday morning at the 2022 International Association for Food Protection (IAFP) Annual Meeting, leading industry academics discussed the topic of enteric virus persistence in low-moisture foods.

Hepatitis A virus sequences in Sweden were recently studied by the journal Eurosurveillance. 

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) investigated a multistate outbreak of hepatitis A illnesses in Indiana, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, and Wisconsin linked to fresh, conventional (non-organic) blackberries from the grocery stores Fresh Thyme Farmers Market and Woodman’s Market.  

Public health officials are investigating an outbreak of hepatitis A illnesses in three states that might be linked to fresh, conventional blackberries sold at Fresh Thyme Farmers Market grocery.

The FDA is alerting consumers to a hepatitis A virus (HAV) contamination of frozen blackberries under the Kroger grocery store “Private Selection” brand.