The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has announced the release of its self-guided, online courses for regulatory agencies conducting self-assessments and verification audits under the Retail Food Program Standards.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (USDA’s FSIS) announced its decision to suspend its Salmonella sampling program for Siluriformes fish (catfish).
The Swiss Association of Cantonal Chemists recently published an inspection report that revealed deficiencies in controls for Listeria monocytogenes among food businesses.
Through the use of CRISPR-SeroSeq technology, researchers found that certain strains of Salmonella are often undetected by traditional testing methods.
At the 75th Session of the World Health Assembly, Member States of the World Health Organization (WHO) approved the new WHO Global Strategy for Food Safety 2022–2030.
A recent study suggests that the cold foods supply chain is the optimal environment for the COVID-19 virus to spread over long distances. The study explores various prevention and testing methods that could be used to mitigate the pathogen’s spread through cold-chain foods.
The World Health Organization (WHO) recently held its third annual Health Talks on Food Safety in honor of World Food Safety Day, which explored how industry and regulators can achieve “safer food, better health” by influencing consumer behavior, intentionally structuring food safety systems, and improving the supply chain.