The Easter holiday means more egg handling, especially for children. It is important to follow safe handling tips when preparing, storing and serving eggs to keep the holiday free of foodborne illnesses. Eggs can cause food poisoning because salmonella is a common bacteria found in uncooked and unbroken eggs. Salmonella can be present on both…
Scotland is planning a new food sampling strategy to tackle challenges associated with the current approach to testing. The proposed model has four strands of surveillance managed and funded by Food Standards Scotland (FSS), and is separate from the verification sampling by local authorities as part of their routine inspections. It was presented at the…
EAS Consulting Group is hosting a complimentary webinar on April 20 at 1 p.m. EDT. The webinar will be on Food Fraud Mitigations and Testing and will be presented by EAS Senior Directors Tim Lombardo and Maged Sharaf. Food Fraud is a global challenge, costing billions to the food industry and consumers as well as causing…
About 2,200 food incidents were detected in 2021 in a system used to monitor issues outside Hong Kong. The Centre for Food Safety (CFS) uses the Food Incident Surveillance System (FISS) to record events and examine the potential domestic impact on the local community. More than 2,000 incidents were identified in 2020. CFS reviews import…
The 2022 Food Safety Summit organizers have announced five pre-event courses to be offered on Monday, May 9, 2022. The 2022 Food Safety Summit is scheduled for May 10-12 at the Donald E. Stephens Convention Center in the Chicago suburb of Rosemont, IL. The annual event brings more than 1,000 attendees from industry, government and…
– CONTRIBUTED ANALYSIS – Editor’s note: This column was originally published in eFoodAlert and is republished here with the author’s permission. Between Sept. 1, 2019, and Sept. 20, 2021, Abbott Nutrition received 17 consumer complaints regarding multiple Similac powdered infant formula products. Fifteen of the complaints related to infants testing positive for Salmonella after consuming…
The COVID-19 pandemic continued to affect reports of other diseases in 2021, according to the Public Health Agency of Sweden (Folkhälsomyndigheten). A summary of the epidemiological annual report for 2021 shows that foodborne diseases, such as Campylobacter and Salmonella, increased slightly compared with 2020 but the number of cases was still down on levels before…
Heart failure is one of those conditions that you rarely (or ever) think about—until it personally affects you. Maybe someone you love was recently diagnosed with heart failure or your doctor warned you about it during a recent physical. Whatever the reason is for it to be on your radar, heart failure sounds pretty scary.…
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In case it’s slipped your mind: Mother’s Day is just around the corner. Luckily, there’s no shortage of cheap Mother’s Day gifts that will arrive before May 8. Given how fast things sell out (and how soon dates tend to creep up), now is a great time to buy a sweet little something for your…