4 weeks 1 day ago
Officials in Paraguay have reported four confirmed cases of foodborne botulism.
The General Directorate of Health Surveillance (DGVS), part of the Ministry of Public Health and Social Welfare, said it is conducting an epidemiological and sanitary investigation.
All patients are adults and a link has been made to eating at
News Desk
4 weeks 1 day ago
Oklahoma dairies can now sell more than 10 times the amount of raw, unpasteurized milk directly to consumers.
Gov. Kevin Stitt signed Senate Bill 2028 into law in late May. The new law raises the monthly cap on direct raw milk sales from 100 gallons to 1,500 gallons and
Coral Beach
4 weeks 1 day ago
The number of Cryptosporidium reports in England declined
Joe Whitworth
4 weeks 1 day ago
Food poisoning has once again been ranked as the most important food safety issue in a survey by Food Standards Australia New Zealand (FSANZ).
The Consumer Insights Tracker was conducted in October 2025 with 2,232 people including 1,307 from Australia and 925 from New Zealand.
At 70.3
Joe Whitworth
1 month ago
Majority of patients are children
Coral Beach
1 month ago
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Bill Marler
1 month ago
A food company in Denmark has been fined for not telling authorities about the detection of Listeria.
Agustson was fined DKK 80,000 ($12,400) by the Danish Food, Agriculture and Fisheries Agency. However, the business said there had been “no attempt whatsoever” to withhold information or act
Joe Whitworth
1 month ago
Chicken salad has been found to be the source of Salmonella that sickened 320 inmates at a county jail in New York.
The incident is the second largest Salmonella outbreak in state history, according to Broome County Health Department Medical Director Dr. Lazarus Gehring. Out of 450 inmates at the
Coral Beach
1 month ago
Food plays a major role in the transmission of almost half of the hazards assessed by scientists for the World Health Organization (WHO).
Estimates cover the burden of disease attributable to foodborne transmission, other major pathways, and food categories for 29 viral, bacterial, parasitic, and chemical hazards, based on a
Joe Whitworth
1 month ago
Champion Foods LLC of New Boston, MI, is recalling certain batches of Motor City Pizza Co. 5 Cheese Bread because they have the potential to be contaminated with Salmonella. This action follows a California Dairies Inc. milk powder recall because of a concern of potential Salmonella contamination.
The recalled milk
News Desk
1 month ago
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Ilana Korchia
1 month ago
A judge in South Africa has criticized the conduct of two health agencies and told them to pay costs in a case related to the Tiger Brands Listeria incident.
The National Health Laboratory Service (NHLS) and National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD) were ordered to pay the costs of the
Joe Whitworth
1 month ago
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
News Desk
1 month ago
Public health officials have warned that they are seeing consistently high levels of gastrointestinal infections in England.
Data published by the UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) shows minimal change in Salmonella and Campylobacter infections in 2025 compared to the year before.
Joe Whitworth
1 month ago
Synear Foods USA LLC, a Chatsworth, Calif. establishment, is recalling 71,603 pounds of frozen not-ready-to-eat (NRTE) pork and crab soup dumpling products due to misbranding and undeclared allergens, the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) announced today. The product contains
News Desk
1 month ago
Homemade food canned or preserved by someone who is incompetent or lacks experience, or education, is the most common source of foodborne botulism.
Dan Flynn
1 month ago
I have spent more than thirty years representing people whose lives were shattered by a single meal. I have sat across from parents in hospital waiting rooms, watched children in kidney failure, and held the hands of families who buried kids who just wanted a hamburger.
Bill Marler
1 month ago
In its Executive Summary, the FDA redacted the name of the company that provided ByHeart with some of the powdered milk used in the production of the implicated formula.
Coral Beach
1 month ago
Researchers have described how climate change could have an impact on Salmonella and antimicrobial resistance.
Scientists analyzed more than 236,700 Salmonella genomes from 139 countries or regions over the period 1940 to 2023. They selected annual mean temperatures and rain levels as indicators of climate change. Future
Joe Whitworth
1 month ago
A leading academic has warned that any plans for UK regulators to help industry grow could end up repeating past mistakes and impacting public health.
As part of modernization plans, a recent set of proposals from the Food Standards Agency (FSA) covered an expansion of responsibilities to include trying to
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