A specialized Italian unit has revealed highlights from food controls this past year including meat and olive oil fraud as well as the illegal slaughter of horses for meat.
Information comes from a report on Carabinieri NAS activities in 2025. The Carabinieri NAS is focused on public health protection. It
Two children have died in a suspected food poisoning incident in a South African province.
The Eastern Cape Department of Health said four other children who were admitted to a hospital have been discharged. One young boy remains in critical care at a different hospital.
A nonprofit group committed to increasing food safety has filed a petition asking the FDA to reverse its practice of withholding the names of companies whose foods are linked to outbreaks.
STOP Foodborne Illness filed the petition to challenge the Food and Drug Administration’s use of a loophole
The leader of the congressional Food Safety Caucus says there is no reason to believe that the Boar’s Head production plant linked to a deadly Listeria outbreak is safe to reopen.
The outbreak sickened at least 57 people across 18 states, killing 10 in 2024. The company had
A deadly outbreak in California has been traced to consumption of death cap mushrooms.
More than three dozen people have been poisoned, with four of them having died and three needing liver transplants according to the California Department of Public Health.
The department reported that there is an unusually high
A survey in Australia has revealed a minimal level of resistance to antibiotics of high importance to human health across three meat types.
Food Standards Australia New Zealand (FSANZ) said there is a low risk of bacteria from raw retail meats being involved in resistant infections or spreading resistance when
As part of its enforcement activities, the Food and Drug Administration sends warning letters to entities under its jurisdiction. Some letters are not posted for public view until weeks or months after they are sent. Business owners have 15 days to respond to FDA warning letters. Warning letters often are
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.
Olympia Provisions of Portland, OR, is recalling 1,930 pounds of ready-to-eat (RTE) holiday kielbasa sausages that may be contaminated with foreign material, specifically metal, the USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) announced today.
The RTE holiday kielbasa was produced on Oct. 14, 2025. There is concern
Prime Food Processing LLC is recalling dried croaker fish because the product was not adequately eviscerated, as required by the Food and Drug Administration.
Fish that are not properly eviscerated may retain internal organs that can harbor harmful bacteria or toxins, posing a potential health risk to consumers.
The
The FDA is taking steps to have companies more clearly label products that have artificial, petroleum-based food dyes.
In April 2025, Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. challenged companies to voluntarily remove the dyes from food. Several companies have stepped up and are planning to remove some
As Super Bowl LX approaches on Feb. 8, fans are filling shopping carts in preparation for the New England Patriots – Seattle Seahawks rematch.
But the thrill of the game shouldn’t sideline food safety. With pizza, buffalo wings, dips and other favorites sitting out for hours during watch
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