Food Safety News

The Food and Drug Administration uses import alerts to enforce U.S. food safety regulations for food from foreign countries. The agency updates and modifies the alerts as needed.

Recent modifications to FDA’s import alerts, as posted by the agency, are listed below.

The World Health Organization (WHO) has delivered five vials of botulism antitoxin to Vietnam to support three patients who are in a critical condition.

After receiving an alert from national authorities, the country office, regional office, and WHO headquarters identified available supplies from the global stockpile

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has revealed how it helped Moldova tackle a rise in Salmonella infections in 2025.

According to the CDC, it was the first time Moldova had used whole genome sequencing (WGS) in the field to investigate a Salmonella outbreak.

The level of antibiotic resistance shown by a type of Salmonella differs between regions, according to researchers.

The study highlighted the genetic diversity of Salmonella Panama, a pathogen responsible for frequent foodborne infections in the French West Indies and French Guiana and revealed the evolution of a bacterium that

Katilo brand Classic Roomy is being recalled in Canada because of Salmonella continuation.

This recall was triggered by Canadian Food Inspection Agency test results.

The implicated product was available at retailers in New Brunswick, Ontario and Quebec.

The recalled roomy is packaged in 200-gram plastic packages and can be identified

The Food and Drug Administration has added another supplement product to an existing warning because it contains toxic yellow oleander. There were already 28 products on the list.

The implicated products have been tested by public health labs and found to have yellow oleander, which is poisonous and causes neurologic,

Researchers have developed new methods to test food for bacterial contamination that are faster and do not require expert training.

The work is being done at the University of Connecticut College of Agriculture, Health and Natural Resources and is led by Yangchao Luo and Zhenlei Xiao. The research was published

The European Commission has unveiled an artificial intelligence (AI) platform to help detect food fraud, contaminated food, and foodborne outbreaks.

The EU Commission said the tool will reinforce consumer safety and help national authorities work more effectively on the assessment, detection and response to food safety risks and

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Ajinomoto Foods North America Inc. of Portland, OR, has again amended its Feb. 19, 2026, recall of frozen not ready-to-eat (NRTE) chicken products that may be contaminated with foreign material, specifically glass, the USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) announced today.

The company is recalling 36,987,

The Food and Drug Administration is advising restaurants and food retailers not to serve or sell and to dispose of, and consumers not to eat certain raw oysters and Manila clams harvested in Washington because of norovirus contamination.

The implicated oysters were harvested by Drayton Harbor Oyster Company (WA-1723-SS). The