Acceptance of food irradiation appears to be increasing, according to an analysis of previous research. A total of 27 peer-reviewed articles in English covering 24,474 people in 15 countries provided the survey-based data. Results showed a large increase in acceptance […]
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Four years after the U.S. District Court for the District of Minnesota struck down USDA’s rule eliminating line speed limits in pork and poultry plants, Republican Rep. Brad Finstad has introduced legislation to ensure that pork and poultry slaughter plants
A plant-based soy drink has been recalled in the Netherlands after reports of nausea and vomiting. Danone Nutricia Nederland said a quality deviation was detected in one batch of shelf-stable 1-liter Alpro Soja Drinks . The implicated product has a
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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 the strain of H5N1 virus detected in the cat and in certain lots
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Health officials in Sweden suspect contaminated eggs are behind a Salmonella outbreak in the country. Seven people from four regions are infected with a type of Salmonella Enteritidis that has previously been found in laying hens and in outbreaks associated
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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, VA, has garnered its first endorsement from a state law enforcement organization. The Idaho Sheriffs Association
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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 Riyadh and one person died. Sick people had consumed mayonnaise at the Hamburgini burger
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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 confirmed that 48 patients and seven deaths were caused by the same strain of
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Earlier this month, when the recommendations of Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr’s “Make America Healthy Again” Commission were leaked, I had an unhappy exchange with a former supporter of our organization, who felt we should be
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More than 20 E. coli infections have been reported in two regions of Germany with six children seriously ill. Information was provided by the State Office for Agriculture, Food Safety and Fisheries (LALLF) and the State Office for Health and
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