NEWS PLUS + Issue 05 | 01.02.2019

A global update on food safety brought to you by FOOD PLUS + an enhanced approach to food safety and quality. 

1. Canada is again investigating an active Salmonella outbreak linked to raw chicken

29.01.2019. Canada. Salmonella

Just as a bad penny always turns up, reports of outbreaks of Salmonella infections from raw chicken just keep popping up in Canada. There are open and closed investigations on these sometimes deadly incidents going back almost two years.

Source: Food Safety News

2. Denmark set to build wild boar fence on German border

29.01.2019. Denmark. African Swine Fever

Denmark's Ministry of Environment and Food has begun constructing a 70-kilometre wild boar fence in Padborg to combat the threat of African Swine Fever from Germany. 

Source: Global Meat News

3. ‘We want to ensure labels are clearer’: UK mulls tougher allergy labelling regulations

29.01.2019. UK. Allergen Labelling

The UK government is looking at how"tougher labelling laws" can protect allergy sufferers and close loopholes in labelling requirements. 

Source: Food Navigator

4. Salmonella top reason for INFOSAN involvement in Q4

30.01.2019. Global. Food Safety

A global food safety network helped with the investigation of 19 incidents from October to December 2018, bringing the total for the year to 83.

Source: Food Safety News

5. Sardines recalled due to botulinum toxin risk

31.01.2019. Portugal/Spain. Clostridium botulinum

Grupo Día, which has 7,400 stores, has recalled a batch of canned sardines in olive oil in Spain and Portugal because of botulinum toxin.

Source: Food Safety News

6. Recent drug-resistant Brucella incidents are behind CDC’s latest HAN warning

30.01.2019. USA. Brucella

The new national public health warning about the risk of exposure to drug-resistant Brucella from raw milk is over three incidents dating back to 2017, according to the Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy (CIDRAP) at the University of Minnesota.

Source: Food Safety News

7. Levels of AMR Campylobacter in retail chickens remain steady

31.01.2019. UK. Campylobacter

We have published the Year 3 results of a survey to identify the proportion of Campylobacter isolated from the FSA’s UK retail chicken survey that were resistant to a range of antimicrobial agents.

Source: Food Standards Agency

8. EU plans specific hygiene rules for insects used in food

01.02.2019. Europe. Food Safety

The European Commission is planning to introduce hygiene rules for insects for human consumption.

Source: Food Safety News