Food Safety News - 01/10/2021..... Study attempts food safety surveillance through text mining

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Study attempts food safety surveillance through text mining By News Desk on Jan 10, 2021 12:05 am Researchers are using text mining and supervised machine learning to try and identify unique words and phrases in online posts that identify consumers’ interactions with hazardous food products. The team of scientists from San Diego State University, Virginia Tech, Loyola Marymount University and Radford University, say they hope this will provide a practical and inexpensive means... Continue Reading Project confirms growing threat in Europe from toxins created by microalgae By News Desk on Jan 10, 2021 12:03 am A project looking at the risk of ciguatera poisoning in Europe has finished work after almost five years. An international scientific meeting was held in October for the EuroCigua project which began in April 2016 and ends this month. Ciguatera is a type of food poisoning associated with consumption of fishery products that contain toxins... Continue Reading Scant information released on botulism issue behind mushroom recall By News Desk on Jan 09, 2021 05:02 pm A recall notice for whole white mushrooms that warns of botulism concerns does not include any details about how or when the problem involving the Belle Grove brand product was discovered. Monaghan Mushrooms Ltd. reports distributing the implicated mushrooms at the consumer level in the Canadian province of Ontario. The recall notice does not describe what... Continue Reading