Thank God it’s Friday! Quick news from the food world (Week 39)

Posted on by Cesare Varallo

Here's my selection of article for the week: - WHO Study Measures Global Burden of Listeria, by James Andrews on foodsafetynews.com: in 2010, Listeria monocytogenes was estimated to infect 23,150 people worldwide. It killed 5,463 of them, or 23.6 percent, according to a new study by European researchers in the World Health Organization (WHO) published in The … Continue reading Thank God it’s Friday! Quick news from the food world (Week 39)

Food recalls in EU – Week 37/2014

Posted on by Cesare Varallo

This week on the RASFF database (Rapid Alert System for Food and Feed) we have one recall from consumers in EU in the alert notifications: - Pathogenic micro-organisms: Salmonella enteritidis in frozen raw whole chicken, following an official control on the market. Origin Belgium, notified by Finland. Between the information for follow-up notifications, we can find another recall from consumers: - Novel foods: unauthorised novel food ingredient tongkat … Continue reading Food recalls in EU – Week 37/2014