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Agency updates advice on E. coli O104
21 July 2011 | By Food Standards Agency
The Food Standards Agency has changed its precautionary advice to consumers following the recent outbreaks of E. coli O104:H4...
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E. coli O104 Session to be held at IAFP 2011
12 July 2011 | By International Association for Food Protection (IAFP)
IAFP will hold a Late Breaking Session titled “E. coli O104 Outbreak in Europe – Update and Dialogue” on Tuesday, 2nd August...
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Update on E.coli O104 outbreaks
7 July 2011 | By Food Standards Agency
The European Commission has confirmed details of the withdrawal from sale of certain batches of fenugreek seeds sourced from Egypt...
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Same-day PCR testing of Salmonellain meat: From research to routine application at slaughterhouses
7 July 2011 | By J. Hoorfar, C. Löfström & M.H. Josefsen, National Food Institute, Technical University of Denmark and F. Hansen & S. Mansdal, Danish Meat Research Institute and J. Andersen, Danish Crown A/S and G. Pedersen, TiCan amba
Due to the very short shelf-life of fresh (especially ground) meat, slaughterhouses benefit from faster screening tests to dispatch Salmonella-free meat as soon as possible after slaughter. An increasing number of European countries require that the meat is tested as free for Salmonella before it is imported. This is currently…
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EFSA publishes report from its Task Force on the E. coli O104:H4 outbreaks
5 July 2011 | By EFSA
Investigations to track down the possible source of the French and German outbreaks of E. coli O104:H4...
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Scientific Information Bulletins (SIBs) address food science issues
1 July 2011 | By IUFoST
IUFoST released a Scientific Information Bulletin (SIB) on the topic of Shiga Toxin Producing Escherichia coli...
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Microbiological safety of chocolate confectionery products
12 December 2009 | By Anett Winkler, Corporate Microbiology, Kraft Foods R&D
For many years, low moisture foods, such as chocolate, were regarded as microbiologically safe due to the inherent product characteristics. Water activity levels below 0.6 would prevent any microbial growth, whereas water activities below 0.85 would prevent proliferation of pathogenic / toxin formation by toxigenic microorganisms[1]. A water activity of…
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Cisgenesis: a novel way to combat late blight
10 September 2009 | By Anton Haverkort, Senior Researcher, Wageningen University and Research Centre
In most countries with temperate climates, cereal, notably wheat, is the most important arable crop. In a few countries such as the Netherlands, potato dominates. In the European Union, over 50 million hectares of wheat is grown against approximately two million hectares of potato, yielding some 70 million tons of…
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Surveillance of foodborne disease in the United Kingdom
16 November 2007 | By Sarah J O’Brien, Professor of Health Sciences and Epidemiology, University of Manchester
“Infectious intestinal disease occurs in one in five people each year, of whom one in six presents to a general practitioner.” So wrote Wheeler and colleagues in 1999 (Wheeler et al, 1999). This translated into 9.4 million people suffering from infectious intestinal disease (IID) annually, with around 1.5 million people…
