| First E. coli O103 outbreak caused by minced raw celery gets review By News Desk on Feb 01, 2022 12:06 am E. coli O103, one of the more rare Shiga-toxin producing E. coli, sickened patients at two Victoria, British Columbia, hospitals last April. The Vancouver Island outbreak is now the subject of a study on food safety for high-risk products prepared for vulnerable populations. Based on confirmed E. coli O103 cases reported to the Island Health... Continue Reading Publisher’s Platform: Apply now for 2022-2023 Dave Theno Food Safety Fellowship By Bill Marler on Feb 01, 2022 12:05 am The national nonprofit public health organization STOP Foodborne Illness is accepting applicants for its 2022-2023 Dave Theno Food Safety Fellowship. Applications must be submitted by March 31. The fellowship program is a partnership with the Michigan State University Online Food Safety Program. The fellow will live in Chicago and work with STOP Foodborne Illness while... Continue Reading Separate meat fraud operations found in Netherlands and Spain By News Desk on Feb 01, 2022 12:03 am A number of people have been arrested in the Netherlands as part of a fraud investigation involving meat. The Intelligence and Investigation Service of the Netherlands Food and Consumer Product Safety Authority (NVWA-IOD) is investigating document fraud involving exported chicken. Authorities visited two business premises and two homes in late January. Seven people have been arrested with... Continue Reading FDA denies import of certain foods because of pesticides, Salmonella By News Desk on Feb 01, 2022 12:02 am The Food and Drug Administration uses import alerts to enforce U.S. food safety regulations for food from foreign countries. The agency updates and modifies the alerts as needed. Recent modifications to FDA’s import alerts, as posted by the agency, are listed below. Click here to go to the FDA page with links for specific details... Continue Reading Mushroom poisonings in China responsible for deaths in 2021 By Joe Whitworth on Feb 01, 2022 12:01 am Cases linked to wild mushroom poisoning in China declined slightly this past year but still pose a huge problem in the country, according to researchers. In 2021, there were 327 investigations involving 923 patients and 20 deaths. Mushroom poisoning incidents and patients were more than 2019 but less than 2020 as deaths slightly decreased. The... Continue Reading Publisher’s Platform: Eh? Kimchi with E. coli O157:H7 and corn with Salmonella in Canada? By Bill Marler on Jan 31, 2022 02:48 pm As of January 28, there have been 14 laboratory-confirmed cases of E. coli O157 illness linked to this outbreak in the following provinces: Alberta (13) and Saskatchewan (1). Individuals became sick between early December 2021 and early January 2022. No deaths or hospitalizations have been reported. Individuals who became ill are between 0 and 61... Continue Reading |
