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2 April 2015 | By Victoria White
The US Agriculture Secretary, Tom Vilsack, has announced the availability of $23 million in USDA funding for citrus greening disease research...
24 March 2015 | By Victoria White
Goats and sheep in many countries are increasingly threatened by peste des petits ruminants (PPR). Upcoming conference discusses elimination of PPR by 2030...
27 February 2015 | By The European Food Safety Authority
Treatment options for some of the most common food-borne infections are decreasing, as types of bacteria (called ‘isolates’) continue to show resistance to antimicrobial drugs...
7 November 2014 | By The Food Standards Agency
In the light of three separate incidents involving six cases of E.coli O157, including five cases in children, potentially linked to the consumption of raw drinking milk, the FSA is reiterating its advice that this sort of milk should not be consumed by children and other vulnerable people...
24 September 2014 | By The Food and Drug Administration
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is asking for potential breakthrough ideas on how to find disease-causing organisms in food – especially Salmonella in fresh produce...
8 September 2014 | By The European Food Safety Authority
The 38 human cases of monophasic Salmonella Typhimurium detected recently in six Member States are likely to be part of the same cluster, a joint EFSA/ECDC report has found...
28 August 2014 | By European Food Safety Authority
Outbreaks and sporadic cases of Salmonella Enteritidis in Austria, France, Germany and the United Kingdom, as well as one case reported in Luxembourg, appear to be linked by the time of symptom onset and microbiological characteristics of isolates...
26 August 2014 | By Food Standards Agency
The FSA is reminding caterers of its advice on the safe handling of eggs...
6 August 2014 | By The U.S. Department of Agriculture
The U.S. Department of Agriculture's Food Safety and Inspection Service announced a critical step forward in making chicken and turkey products safer for Americans to eat...
30 July 2014 | By The European Food Safety Authority
What are vector-borne diseases? What does EFSA do in this field? EFSA’s latest infographic answers these questions and others...
19 June 2014 | By The European Food Safety Authority
Rainfall, the use of contaminated water for irrigation or for applying pesticides, and contaminated equipment are among the factors that cause contamination of berries with Salmonella and norovirus...
21 February 2014 | By The European Food Safety Authority
Human cases of campylobacteriosis decreased slightly in 2012 for the first time in five years, but campylobacteriosis remains the most commonly reported zoonotic disease and it is premature to suggest that this is the beginning of a downward trend...
31 January 2014 | By Food Standards Agency
NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde has issued a statement about an outbreak of E.coli O157 in Scotland...
19 July 2013 | By FSA
The FSA has been informed that a frozen meat pie product that was found to contain horse DNA has been withdrawn from sale...
5 July 2013 | By FSA
Professor Pat Troop has completed her independent review of the FSA’s response to the adulteration of processed beef products...
