NEWS PLUS | Issue 50
December 20, 2019
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We will be taking a short break over the festive season, returning on January 10th with the latest food safety & quality news.
1. A year on high alert for African swine fever as death toll reaches 30,000 in North Sumatra
19.12.2019. Global. African Swine Fever
A report looks back on the situation surrounding African swine fever in 2019; assessing the impact the virus has had on the pig herds this years and what is to come in 2020. This comes as 30,000 pigs have died in Indonesia’s North Sumatra province as a result of African swine fever.
Source: The Pig Site
2. CDC reports dozens more people sick in ongoing E. coli outbreak linked to romaine
19.12.2019. USA. E. coli
Three dozen more patients and two more states are officially part of an E. coli outbreak traced to romaine, according to a renewed public alert from the CDC.
Source: Food Safety News
3. Reduce food waste and stay safe this Christmas
17.12.2019. UK. Food Safety
We buy approximately 10 million turkeys each Christmas, yet we throw away over 100,000 tonnes of poultry every year, most of it completely edible.
Source: Food Standards Agency
4. CDC reveals deadly outbreak traced to hard-boiled egg production plant
18.12.2019. USA. Listeria
Eleven months after the FDA found Listeria contamination at an Almark Foods hard-boiled egg production plant, the CDC is announcing an ongoing outbreak linked to the eggs. Illnesses began in 2017.
Source: Food Safety News
5. A look back on Europe’s 2019 food safety record
20.12.2019. Europe. Food Safety
This year saw the first World Food Safety Day, a large Listeria outbreak in Spain, and another infant formula Salmonella outbreak.
Source: Food Safety News
6. Canadians renew warning about Salmonella outbreak and raw poultry
19.12.2019. Canada. Salmonella
Officials continue to warn people to properly handle and cook poultry amidst an ongoing three-year Salmonella Reading outbreak that has sickened more than 120 people in Canada with the same strain of the bacterium that hit people in 43 U.S. states.
Source: Food Safety News
7. Health risk in processed meat not equal, experts claim
20.12.2019. Global. Food Safety
Not all processed meats carry the same level of cancer risk, according to new research by scientists at the Institute for Global Food Security.
Source: Food Manufacture
8. Scientists document emerging risk from eating raw seafood
20.12.2019. Global. Shewanella haliotis
A team of researchers says a relatively new foodborne pathogen documented in a man who had eaten raw salmon before becoming ill is all the evidence needed to warn the public against consuming raw seafood.
Source: Food Safety News
9. Thousands poisoned by mushrooms in France in recent years
19.12.2019. France. Toxins
More than 10,600 people were poisoned by mushrooms and 22 deaths were reported from 2010 to 2017 in France.
Source: Food Safety News
10. Baby food recall due to ‘metal objects’ found
18.12.2019. UK. Recall
Heinz and Tesco are recalling all of the By Nature 7+ months baby food range following the discovery that a single jar had been tampered with and contained two sharp metal fragments.
Source: Food Manufacture
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