Tag: foodborne
Europe: Denmark participates in finding global burden of foodborne disease
Every year one in 10 people around the world gets sick from food they eat and 420,000 died as a result, according to a...
Americas: CDC releases tool on foodborne disease outbreaks
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has released a redesigned online tool for users to search data on foodborne disease outbreaks more...
Europe: More unsafe food incidences go unreported, says WHO
On World Health Day 2015 in April 7, World Health Organization (WHO)/Europe estimates that levels of foodborne disease are much higher than currently reported...
Europe: UK authority releases report in food viruses
The Advisory Committee on the Microbiological Safety of Food (ACMSF) has published its extensive review of viruses in the food chain.
The report, which is...
Americas: Food Safety ’15 series – If prevention is the main...
It has now been more than four years since the Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA) was signed into law by President Obama on January...
Europe: Institute ranks three foodborne diseases impacting Denmark
Campylobacter is the foodborne bacteria that contributes most to the burden of disease in Denmark, according to a study from the National Food Institute...
Europe: New methods can help overcome shortcomings using culture-based methods to...
In a PhD project at the National Food Institute, Technical University of Denmark, researchers studied new methods of characterizing and detecting foodborne illness-causing Salmonella...
Americas: CDC data show limited progress in reducing foodborne infections in...
Foodborne infections continue to be an important public health problem in the US, according to an annual report by Centers for Disease Control and...