NEWS PLUS | Issue 23
June 5, 2020
As leaders in food safety, we provide a weekly global update brought to you by our Food Plus+ team delivering an enhanced food safety & quality system to protect your brand.
1. With World Food Safety Day coming up we are reminded that 'Food safety is everyone's business, now and in the future'
04.06.2020. Global. Food Safety
“Food safety is EFSA’s daily job, but it’s everyone’s business to consider food safety now and in the future if we want to limit the impact of climate change and to build sustainable global food systems for the benefit of consumers, producers and our natural world", Bernhard Url, EFSA’s Executive Director.
Source: EFSA
2. Food poisoning outbreak in Hong Kong that sickened 200 linked to sandwiches
30.05.2020. Hong Kong. Food Poisoning
The Centre for Health Protection (CHP) of the Department of Health reported 229 people were sick and 45 needed hospital treatment after eating the implicated sandwiches. It was previously reported that 27 people were sick and five needed hospital treatment.
Source: Food Safety News
3. Challenges, deadlines and potential divergences in relation to Brexit and food labelling
03.06.2020. UK. Brexit
Seven months out until the end of the transition period, the uncertainty of timing and potential short timescales are a concern for many UK and EU businesses, as they prepare to update food and beverage labelling for Brexit.
Source: Food Navigator
4. Rabobank reports COVID-19 rippling through the global cattle market
04.06.2020. Global. Coronavirus
Just as COVID-19 is beginning to wreak havoc on some parts of the world and abate elsewhere, the pandemic’s impact on the beef industry is being felt around the world.
Source: Meatingplace
5. ASF-infected zones in Belgium to be reduced
03.06.2020. Belgium. African Swine Fever
Almost a year after the last confirmed evidence of African Swine Fever (ASF) in the country, Belgium is considering reducing the infected zone.
Source: Global Meat News
6. Unchanged antibiotic use in the UK pig industry
02.06.2020. UK. Antibiotics
The latest antibiotic usage figures for the UK's pig industry shows that levels are unchanged from 2019 despite significant disease challenges.
Source: The Pig Site
7. Beverage tampering being investigated by police in Germany
05.06.2020. Germany. Product Tampering
Two women needed immediate medical treatment after drinking beverages that had been tampered within Germany, according to police.
Source: Food Safety News
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