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.

Through the use of CRISPR-SeroSeq technology, researchers found that certain strains of Salmonella are often undetected by traditional testing methods.

The European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) published a study that measured the prevalence of Salmonella in swine carcasses and evaluated the factors that influence Salmonella levels.

The J.M. Smucker Company has voluntarily recalled many of its Jif® products in the U.S. and Canada due to possible Salmonella contamination.

Hygiena’s BAX® System SalQuant™ approach can replace the time-consuming “most probable number” testing method for concentration levels of Salmonella in beef, pork, and poultry.

During the Thursday morning Town Hall at the 2022 Food Safety Summit, top food safety regulators from FDA, USDA, CDC, and AFDO discussed initiatives and advances in food traceability, food safety policy, recalls, pathogen monitoring, food safety culture, and a number of other timely areas. 

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) recently released the National Antimicrobial Resistance Monitoring System Integrated Summary for 2019, which is a review of data gathered on the antimicrobial resistance (AMR) of several pathogens.

bioMérieux has launched GENE-UP QUANT Salmonella, the first AOAC-approved and non-enrichment true quantification diagnostic for Salmonella.

The European Center for Disease Prevention and Control and the European Food Safety Authority have released a report on antimicrobial resistance (AMR) in animals and food throughout the EU during 2019–2020.

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has updated its import alerts due to the presence of Listeria Monocytogenes and Salmonella in seafood.