The Food Standards Agency (FSA) has warned people not to buy or eat several types of counterfeit chocolate bars.
The alert comes after reports of fake branded chocolate being found on sale and follows an incident
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Scientists have given details about different Staphylococcus aureus, Bacillus cereus, norovirus, and Cryptosporidium outbreaks in various countries.
Presentations at the European Scientific Conference on Applied Infectious Disease Epidemiology (ESCAIDE) covered outbreaks in Turkey, Kazakhstan, and
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The Food and Drug Administration continues using 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
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Ukraine has made progress in boosting food safety despite the war, but there are still areas that need improvement, according to a European Commission assessment.
Several reports on countries trying to become EU member states
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According to a report, only one laboratory got a top score as part of a Campylobacter testing exercise, suggesting there is room for improvement.
In 2018, the Food Standards Agency (FSA) commissioned the UK Health
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Lithuanian authorities have uncovered a number of hygiene violations at different producers in a series of recent operations.
In the first case, the State Food and Veterinary Service (VMVT) inspectors found an illegal meat canning
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Germany has revealed results from several control programs looking at poultry meat, olives, raw milk cheese, and squid.
As part of 2022 zoonoses monitoring, Campylobacter and Salmonella were detected more often in fattening ducks than
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The number of people infected by Salmonella linked to cantaloupe continues to increase and the recall list continues to expand.
As of Nov. 30, there were 117 confirmed patients in the United States, up by
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A record number of trade issues were raised at the latest World Trade Organization (WTO) meeting on safe food.
Delegates at the WTO Committee on Sanitary and Phytosanitary (SPS) Measures meeting in November addressed specific
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Police in Portugal have uncovered potential water testing fraud involving a laboratory.
Operation “Gota D´Água” led to the arrest of 19 people for allegedly falsifying analyses of water intended for human consumption. Those detained are
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