NEWS PLUS | Issue 11
March 13, 2020
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1. Spreading coronavirus: ‘There have been no reports of transmission through food’
12.03.2020. Global. Coronavirus
EFSA says there is no evidence that food is a likely source of transmission of coronavirus disease (COVID-19).
Source: Food Navigator
2. Coronavirus complicates China’s ASF outlook: Rabobank
10.03.2020. Global. Coronavirus
As China takes steps to reignite domestic pork production, meet strong demand, navigate trade waters and recover from 2019’s African Swine Fever (ASF) crisis, coronavirus is adding uncertainty to those efforts, according to a new report from Rabobank.
Source: Meating Place
3. ASF may continue to influence China’s 2020 trade: Rabobank; as Sequencing study suggests new means of controlling ASF
11.03.2020. Global. African Swine Fever
African Swine Fever (ASF) still has the potential to affect China’s protein production, trade and consumption this year, even though the number of new cases and re-infections are falling, according to a new report from Rabobank.
Source 1: Meating Place
Source 2: Feed Strategy
4. Fatalities reported in Listeria outbreak traced to imported mushrooms
10.03.2020. USA. Listeria
Four people are dead and at least 36 people across 17 states have been sickened in a three-year Listeria outbreak linked to mushrooms imported from Korea. The virulent strain has hospitalized at least 30 of the patients.
Source: Food Safety News
5. U.S. athlete cleared of doping in case of steroids in beef
11.03.2020. USA. Steroids
The four-year ban on American long jumper and sprinter Jarrion Lawson for a positive doping test due to beef containing steroids has been overturned.
Source : Meating Place
6. Brussels Bulletin: EU proposes legally binding net-zero target
06.03.2020. Europe. Sustainability
The European Commission has proposed a European Climate Law in an attempt to ensure climate neutrality by 2050. Elsewhere in the EU, Spain has banned retailers from selling food ‘at loss’, and UK regulators have tightened controls on raw milk production. FoodNavigator brings you news and views from across the bloc.
Source: Food Navigator
7. Counting the cost of fish fraud: ‘Billions’ lost to illicit fisheries
12.03.2020. Global. Food Fraud
A study has concluded between eight and 14 million tonnes of unreported fish catches are traded illicitly each year, depriving the legitimate market for seafood of between $9bn and $17bn in trade.
Source: Food Navigator
8. FSIS publishes results of salmonella, E. coli testing in raw pork
10.03.2020. USA. Foodborne pathogens
USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) has published results from the second phase of the agency’s baseline study on salmonella and shiga toxin-producing E. coli (STEC) in raw pork.
Source 1: Meating Place
Source 2: Journal of Food Protection
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