A survey on audits has revealed they are valued but there is a need to shift perceptions from them being seen as a costly obligation. Recurring themes were concerns about compliance-driven approaches, auditor shortages, audit fatigue, digital readiness, and the […]
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A Salmonella outbreak is affecting seven countries with the United Kingdom reporting the highest number of people sick. According to the UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA), there are 207 confirmed Salmonella Enteritidis cases between August 2025 and August 2026. A
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Gentle suction mixed with the dependable pull of gravity. That’s the basic principle behind a new way of harvesting apples. In what some would call a transformative system, it was designed to ensure fruit quality, harvest efficiency, better worker conditions, and even food safety.
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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
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An outbreak of Listeria monocytogenes infections, which resulted in one death, was caused by contaminated home-delivered meals, according to the UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA). In mid-April 2025, the Gastrointestinal Infections, Food Safety and One Health (GIFSOH) Division was informed of
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Quick bites from around the food safety arena The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) have linked 431 illnesses in 32 states to fresh jalapeño pepperscontaminated with Salmonella Javiana. The peppers were grown in Sinaloa, Mexico and distributed by San
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Everything Sprouts LLC of Minneapolis, MN, is recalling three varieties of alfalfa sprouts products because they have been linked to a 15-state outbreak of Shiga toxin producing E. coli (STEC) and/or Salmonella. The recalled products were distributed by Everything Sprouts
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CDC’s August 20 update puts the iceberg lettuce Cyclospora outbreak at 10,930 illnesses, 454 hospitalizations and two deaths across seventeen states, with no new states added. Federal regulators have announced twenty-one foodborne outbreak investigations so far in 2026, against twenty-eight in all of 2025.
The patient count for an outbreak of infections from the Cyclospora parasite linked to iceberg lettuce has topped 10,000. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is reporting 10,930 patients as of Aug. 21, up from 9,481 reported on Aug.
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