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When the Minister of Health announced at the end of last year that South Africa was in the midst of a listeriosis outbreak, the source was still unknown and the country ill-prepared for such a devastating crisis. In the first of a two-part feature, Dr Lucia Anelich shares her expert perspective.
University of São Paulo researchers from Brazil have found that various species of Salmonella are resistant to different classes of antibiotics.
Richard Watson assesses the current UK seafood picture, the New Food team looks at the altruistic beverage brand, One, and Andy Buchan explains why hygienic design could help save you from a food-safety-related product recall.
In this issue: Food Additives: consumers’ queries answered, and what lessons can be learnt in the wake of the South African listeriosis outbreak.
If you’ve ever wondered just what’s involved in lab-based identification of foreign objects within the supply chain, let Liz Moran enlighten you…
Authorities say there will likely be a resurgence of cases in early 2019.
The ages of those infected range from 95 to less than one year old.
Of the labs that did not use WGS, the main reason given was that they lacked the budget and expertise.
The same strains of Listeria monocytogenes were found in Austria, Denmark, Finland, Sweden and the United Kingdom.
Hepatitis E disease, caused by infection with the hepatitis E virus (HEV), affects mainly the liver, with symptoms including jaundice, fever and malaise. There are, according to the WHO, around 20 million HEV infections worldwide, leading to approximately three million cases of acute hepatitis E annually, most of which are…
The regulations, which will come into effect next year, have been finalised at a time when Canada-America food trade relations are under the spotlight.
Nearly a year on from a European scandal that saw the recall of millions of eggs, fipronil is once again in the headlines.
Whilst the UK is working to slow the use of antibiotics in food-producing animals, in some countries approximately 80 per cent of total consumption of medically important antibiotics is in the animal sector.
The outbreak this year is not related to two other food-borne outbreaks in EU countries in 2012–2014, which were associated with consumption of frozen strawberries and frozen mixed berries.
Other recalls over the last week include Mary Berry's salad dressing and Remeo Gelato's Stracciatella Di Bergamo gelato.
