Consumers’ confidence in food safety in the United States is at an all time low, according to a Gallup Poll. The poll revealed that only 12 percent of U.S. adults say they have a “great deal” of faith while 41 percent say they have a “fair amount” of confidence in... Continue Reading| Food Safety News
Almost 6,500 people are believed to have suffered food poisoning linked to a school food program in Indonesia. The number of cases related to the Free Nutritious Meals (MBG) program has reached 6,452, according to some sources. The initiative was designed to improve the nutrition of school children and was... Continue Reading| Food Safety News
As the CEO of Animal Wellness Action (AWA) and the Center for a Humane Economy (CHE) Wayne Pacelle frequently gains intervenor status in federal court cases, such as those involving California’s Proposition 12. Outside the courtroom, Pacelle, in some ways, takes on the role of the late, legendary radio storyteller... Continue Reading| Food Safety News
French health authorities have confirmed two cases of botulism following the consumption of a product made in Spain. Results of the investigation by the General Directorate for Food (DGAL) were shared with Spanish authorities. The two patients live in Brittany and ate tortillas produced in Spain by a factory belonging... Continue Reading| Food Safety News
Wholesale Produce Supply of Minneapolis, MN, is recalling fresh cut/processed cantaloupe and mixed fruit products, after testing showed contamination with Listeria monocytogenes. More than 25 products are subject to the recall. The recall was the result of a routine sampling program by the company which revealed that the finished products... Continue Reading| Food Safety News
Recently published research shows that Salmonella caused the highest number of multi-state intestinal disease outbreaks in 2023. The report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention found that the agency investigated 181 possible multi-state outbreaks and determined 84 of the incidents to actually be multi-state outbreaks. Investigators determined the... Continue Reading| Food Safety News
An E. coli outbreak in Belgium with more than 70 cases and nine deaths has been linked to ground beef. The Federal Agency for the Safety of the Food Chain (FASFC) said no samples of the affected batch of meat were available, so the source cannot be confirmed with absolute... Continue Reading| Food Safety News
You’re shopping for some milk, and there it is. A bottle of the white stuff in just the right shape for picking up and putting into your shopping cart. But wait. Its label boldly proclaims “COW FREE.” You know there are dairy free milks such as soy milk, almond milk,... Continue Reading| Food Safety News
Two Campylobacter outbreaks in Denmark have been traced to Danish chicken meat. Between July 14 and Sept. 13, the Statens Serum Institut (SSI) registered two outbreaks of Campylobacter jejuni with 57 patients. Sick people ranged in age from 2 to 89 years old and come from all over the country.... Continue Reading| Food Safety News
Gansu Zhaofeng Agricultural Development Co. Ltd. in Hui County Industrial Concentration Zone, Longnan City, Gansu Province, has recalled 500-gram bags of G&L FOOD Dried Bean Curd for failing to declare the allergen wheat. People who have an allergy or severe sensitivity to wheat run the risk of serious or life-threatening... Continue Reading| Food Safety News
An Arkansas egg producer is recalling 12-count and 18-count cartons of free-range large brown eggs after federal health inspectors detected salmonella contamination at a processing site. Black Sheep Egg Company of Walnut Ridge, AR, pulled products and notified direct customers about the recall of eggs with best-by dates of Aug.... Continue Reading| Food Safety News
Tru Fru LLC announced that its third-party manufacturer, Georgia Nut Company (GNC) issued a voluntary recall of specific varieties of Tru Fru freeze-dried fruit due to the potential presence of metal in the product. The recall was initiated upon receiving a report from a consumer alerting the company to this... Continue Reading| Food Safety News
After a federal judge earlier this year found the nearly decade-old Massachusetts Question 3 violates the U.S. Constitution, it was only a matter of time before California’s Proposition 12 would face a similar challenge. Now, Triumph Foods, the successful Plaintiff in Massachusetts, has become the first processor to sue California... Continue Reading| Food Safety News
As part of its enforcement activities, the Food and Drug Administration sends warning letters to entities under its jurisdiction. Some letters are not posted for public view until weeks or months after they are sent. Business owners have 15 days to respond to FDA warning letters. Warning letters often are... Continue Reading| Food Safety News
French authorities are investigating a Listeria outbreak linked to a cheese company in which two people have died. In August, the public health unit of the parquet de Paris took over an investigation opened by the Guéret Public Prosecutor’s Office into the Chavegrand company and the outbreak. The probe involves... Continue Reading| Food Safety News
A survey of environmental health professionals in the United Kingdom has revealed concern about the use of imported eggs. Research included 110 responses from Chartered Institute of Environmental Health (CIEH) members. It found 80 percent believe imported egg products pose a greater food safety risk than UK eggs. The British Egg... Continue Reading| Food Safety News
Two agencies have launched a project to improve food safety in 10 African countries. The African Development Bank and African Union Commission (AUC) said the Strengthening Food Safety Standards and Nutrition in Africa (SFNA) project will bolster food security, public health, and trade across the continent. The project, launched at a workshop... Continue Reading| Food Safety News
The Hillshire Brands Company of Haltom City, TX, is recalling 58,000,000 pounds of corn dog and sausage on a stick products that may be contaminated with extraneous material, specifically pieces of wood embedded in the batter, the USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) announced today. The problem was discovered... Continue Reading| Food Safety News
SLR Food Distribution of Hicksville, NY is recalling Wise Wife brand Cinnamon, because it has the potential to be contaminated with elevated levels of lead. Wise Wife brand Ground Cinnamon was distributed to retailers located NJ, NY, FL, MD, MN, OK, OH between Feb. 15, 2024, and June 28, 2025.... Continue Reading| Food Safety News
Goot Essa LLC of Howard, PA, is recalling one lot of its Goot Essa brand Der Mutterschaf Cheese because it has the potential to be contaminated with Listeria monocytogenes. Goot Essa brand Der Mutterschaf Cheese was distributed to retail and restaurant customers in New Jersey, Virginia, Connecticut and Montana. The... Continue Reading| Food Safety News
The USDA has issued a public health alert about Marketside brand pasta with meatballs sold at Walmart stores nationwide because of a possible link to a deadly Listeria outbreak. The producing company collected samples of the pre-cooked pasta used as an ingredient in the product as part of an ongoing... Continue Reading| Food Safety News
— OPINION — Donald Trump and his acolyte, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., vowed to “Make America Healthy Again.” They lied. Staff cuts at the FDA have already put the brakes on the agency’s ability to trace the source of foodborne disease outbreaks. In 2024, the agency investigated a total of... Continue Reading| Food Safety News
Reports of Salmonella in raw meat-based pet food in the United Kingdom have declined again from the record levels seen in 2022. The Animal and Plant Health Agency (APHA) collected data on Salmonella from animals, feeding stuff and animal by-products (ABP) in England, Wales and Scotland. The number of positives... Continue Reading| Food Safety News
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 listed below. Click here to go to the FDA page... Continue Reading| Food Safety News
A survey by the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) has revealed how much people are aware of and pay attention to food safety. EFSA conducts the survey every three years. This year it includes the 27 EU member states and seven EU candidate countries. Eurobarometer fieldwork in March and April... Continue Reading| Food Safety News
The FDA has again found bacterial contamination in Darwin’s Natural Pet Products dog food and the producing company, Arrow Reliance, is again refusing to recall its products. The implicated products have been found to be contaminated with Salmonella and Listeria monocytogenes after the Food and Drug Administration tested samples following... Continue Reading| Food Safety News
Southwind Foods LLC of Carson, CA, is recalling more than 60 lots of frozen shrimp because of possible contamination with radionuclide (Cesium-137). Cs-137 is a manmade radioisotope of cesium. Traces of Cs-137 are widespread and can be present in the environment at background levels, and at higher levels in water... Continue Reading| Food Safety News
The Food and Drug Administration has launched a new transparency policy for the reporting of foodborne illness outbreak investigations. As part of the initiative the public, industry stakeholders and other entities will have access to two new resources once an outbreak investigation has ended: “The EIS abstracts will allow stakeholders... Continue Reading| Food Safety News
Recalls in the United Kingdom and Europe increased in the second quarter of 2025 compared to the first three months of the year, according to data from Sedgwick’s European Product Safety and Recall Index. In the second quarter of 2025 (Q2), recalls in the food and drink sector went up... Continue Reading| Food Safety News
The Food and Drug Administration has updated information for four foodborne illness outbreaks. For an outbreak of Salmonella Oranienburg that the FDA| Food Safety News
An Australian woman has been found guilty of murder after serving her relatives a meal that included death cap mushrooms. Erin Patterson was also| Food Safety News
Quality Poultry & Seafood Inc., a Biloxi, MS, establishment, is recalling 98,916 pounds of catfish fillets that were produced without the benefit of| Food Safety News
Health officials in Sweden suspect contaminated eggs are behind a Salmonella outbreak in the country. Seven people from four regions are infected with a| Food Safety News
The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) is issuing a public health alert for a raw sirloin beef tip product because| Food Safety News
About 20 residents of six nursing homes in Belgium have fallen ill after being infected with E. coli. Local media reported five people had died but it was| Food Safety News
Earlier this month, when the recommendations of Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr’s “Make America Healthy Again” Commission were| Food Safety News
A bill has been put forward in the United Kingdom to make guidance about the risks of methanol poisoning clear in travel advice after the deaths of| Food Safety News
The CDC is warning that drinking raw milk can lead to human infections from the bird flu virus. In a research report released Sept. 8, the Centers for| Food Safety News
The Make America Healthy Again (MAHA) Commission released its 20-page Strategy Report on Tuesday, indicating that the federal government will pursue a| Food Safety News
Britain is sleepwalking through its biggest food safety crisis since the horse meat scandal, according to a report on meat smuggling. The Environment,| Food Safety News
Speed is essential to a well-managed recall. The faster consumers are alerted and understand what to do, the faster contaminated products can be| Food Safety News
The Middlefield Original Cheese Co-Op facility in Middlefield, OH, is recalling a variety of its cheeses because testing showed contamination with| Food Safety News
Shaikh Al Kar brand plain halva is being recalled in Canada because government testing showed Salmonella contamination. The recalling firm is Nabil| Food Safety News
The Campbells’s Company will stop using artificial food dyes in 2026, joining several other companies that have made similar promises in response to a| Food Safety News
An Australian woman has been sentenced to life in prison for serving her relatives a meal that included death cap mushrooms. Erin Patterson, aged 50, also| Food Safety News
Beef is big for Brazil, and it’s not just those popular Brazilian steakhouses like Rodizio Grill or the country’s domestic consumption. It has been nearly| Food Safety News
A survey in Germany has revealed most people are familiar with raw milk but hardly any are concerned about associated health risks. Two-thirds of| Food Safety News
Ten more people are sick in Canada with Salmonella infections in an outbreak linked to pistachios and products containing pistachios. The Public Health| Food Safety News
Eight more pistachio products are under recall in Canada because of their link to a Salmonella outbreak that has sickened dozens of people. The recall of| Food Safety News
Following up on a case of H5N1 Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza in a cat, testing performed by the Food and Drug Administration has shown a link between| Food Safety News
The two-year, 14-page petition to the USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) from Animal Partisan, an animal activist group based in Glen Allen,| Food Safety News
The owner of a burger restaurant linked to a large botulism outbreak in Saudi Arabia in 2024 has gone into liquidation. The outbreak affected 75 people in| Food Safety News
-- OPINION -- Imagine buying a bag of shrimp, only to learn weeks later that it may have been exposed to radiation. Or opening your child’s lunchbox to| Food Safety News
Almost 50 confirmed E. coli infections and several deaths have been reported in eight nursing homes in a region of Belgium. In Flanders, it has been| Food Safety News
Deadly Belgian E. coli outbreak grows with source still unknown| Food Safety News
The Food and Drug Administration is investigating two new Salmonella outbreaks of unknown origin. Both of the outbreaks are from Salmonella Enteritidis.| Food Safety News
The demand for food away from home has witnessed a surge in recent years, making restaurants a crucial source of food-related illness outbreaks. A new| Food Safety News
In what federal prosecutors say is the largest ever fine of its kind, operators of Chipotle Mexican Grill Inc. have agreed to pay $25 million to resolve| Food Safety News
Sulu Organics LLC of Bartlett, IL, is recalling 6,166 pounds of pork lard and beef tallow products that were produced without the benefit of federal| Food Safety News
Food Standards Scotland (FSS) has welcomed the conviction of a man who made fraudulent claims about tea. Thomas Robinson, 52, was found guilty on two| Food Safety News
Joseph Journell thought he was doing the wholesome thing when he fed raw, unpasteurized milk to his cats. Journell also drank the raw milk, thinking it| Food Safety News
Dairyland Produce, LLC, (doing business as Hardie’s Fresh Foods) of Houston, TX and Dallas, TX is recalling Cucumber Select 6 count, because of potential| Food Safety News
Operations at a company in Lithuania have been suspended after food agency inspectors were denied entry to the premises during an inspection. The State| Food Safety News
An ongoing outbreak of infections from Salmonella Enteritidis has been traced to eggs from a Wisconsin poultry farm. The Centers for Disease Control and| Food Safety News