”It remains unclear how excessively high levels of an additive got into tortillas that made more than 700 people sick in Finland. In August 2023, 721 individuals became ill with gastrointestinal symptoms in 17 schools in a Finnish municipality. Of…
“The European Union (EU) has announced funding for food safety reforms in Ukraine. The EU will provide €12 million ($14 million) as part of the third phase of the EU4SmallFarms and EU4SaferFood projects. The aim is to strengthen rural development,…
FDA increases import enforcement on foods with pesticides, heavy metals and Salmonella ”The Food and Drug Administration uses import alerts to enforce U.S. food safety regulations for food from foreign countries. The agency updates and modifies the alerts as needed.…
“The USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) is issuing a public health alert for a ground beef product that may be contaminated with foreign material, specifically metal. A recall was not requested because the product is no longer available…
“Feng Foods Trading Inc. New Hyde Park, NY In a Jan. 16, 2026, warning letter, the Food and Drug Administration cited serious violations of the seafood Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Point (HACCP) regulation at Feng Foods Trading Inc., a…
A proposed system in Switzerland should help with Listeria control and outbreak investigations, according to researchers. Swiss monitoring and control of food for Listeria monocytogenes, as well as data collection, takes place on several levels. Because of a complex legal…
Edible insects, 3D food printing, and cell-based foods are among the technologies expected to reach UK consumers in the next five to 10 years. A report from the Food Standards Agency (FSA) and Food Standards Scotland (FSS) listed areas likely…
The Food and Drug Administration uses import alerts to enforce U.S. food safety regulations for food from foreign countries. The agency updates and modifies the alerts as needed. Recent modifications to FDA’s import alerts, as posted by the agency, are…
The FDA has released an assessment that evaluates the risk of human illnesses associated with the use of untreated manure on soil used for growing produce. The release by the Food and Drug Administration includes more than 2,000 pages of…
The level of antibiotic resistance shown by a type of Salmonella differs between regions, according to researchers. The study highlighted the genetic diversity of Salmonella Panama, a pathogen responsible for frequent foodborne infections in the French West Indies and French…