Food Safety News

Sri Lanka has unveiled its first national food safety policy with six themes including improving food controls, strengthening surveillance, and enhancing standards.

Developed by the Ministry of Health and Mass Media, through the Food Control Administration Unit (FCAU), it promotes a preventive, risk-based approach.

Whole Foods Market of Austin, TX, is recalling Fromagerie Coop de Mean Cabricharme cheese because the product contains egg lysozyme, an egg white protein, which is not declared on the product label. 

People who have an allergy or severe sensitivity to eggs run the risk of a serious or

Authorities have uncovered a network operating across Europe that is accused of being involved in the slaughter of horses that were unfit for human consumption.

The group is suspected of using falsified documents and manipulated microchips to conceal the animals’ true identities.

Nearly 200 officers and representatives of different

Scientists have warned about the risks posed by small-scale production of traditional foods after studying a fatal Listeria outbreak.

From 2020 to 2022, 10 people were sick and three died in an outbreak of listeriosis in Austria. It was traced to a traditional southern European dairy item known as

The Connecticut Department of Consumer Protection Food and Standards Division has issued a cease-and-desist order to Phire in the Hole of Monroe, CT, and asked the company to voluntarily remove its hot sauce products from the market, following complaints from several local health departments.

The products were manufactured

Leaping Bear Farm is recalling eggs after Vermont health and agriculture officials detected Salmonella in eggs and environmental samples from the farm.

The recall covers cartons dated between June 1 and Sept. 5. The eggs were sold at local farmers markets and other retailers.

Vermont health officials have linked 14

The California Department of Health has issued a warning about Happy Hens brand eggs because a Salmonella outbreak has been traced to them.

The department is working with the California Department of Food and Agriculture and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to investigate the outbreak of Salmonella Enteritidis

Evergreen Fresh Sprouts LLC of Moyie Springs, ID, is recalling 215 cases of Broccoli Sprouts, because they have been linked to an outbreak of Salmonella infections.

The sprouts were delivered to three distributors in Washington between Aug. 24 and Sept. 2. They may have been further distributed and sold in

The Food and Drug Administration continues to investigate multiple outbreaks of foodborne illnesses, many with the source of the pathogens unknown.

However, for the first time the agency is reporting that romaine lettuce was the vehicle of an outbreak of E. coli O157:H7. The FDA first posted the outbreak

The seed supplier behind a multi-state outbreak linked to sprouts may have been named quietly in an obscure FDA report.

First reported by Phyllis Entis on eFoodAlert.com, the news about International Sprout Holdings Inc. of Cookeville, TN, came in an entry on the Food and Drug Administration’

PK brand Roasted Lemon N’ Chilli Peanuts are being recalled in Canada because of Salmonella contamination.

The peanuts were distributed in Ontario and Quebec, according to the Canadian Food Inspection Agency.

As of the posting of the recall notice, no illnesses had been reported in relation to the recalled