Food Safety News

Clover Hill Dairy of Mechanicsville, MD, has expanded its recall of its soft ricotta/requeson cheese to include all of the cheese because it has been linked to an outbreak of Listeria infections.

The implicated cheese was distributed from May 4 through May 30 in North Carolina, New York, Virginia,

More inspection documents showing food safety violations at the Boar’s Head production facility in Jarrett, VA, have come to light. A deadly outbreak of Listeria infections in 2024 was traced to products from the plant.

The outbreak, which ran from January to July in 2024, sickened 61 people

The number of people in the United Kingdom infected by Shigella after going to Cape Verde has increased but no cases have been recorded in recent months.

The UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) is also monitoring three clusters of Salmonella infections associated with travel to Cape Verde.

UKHSA said the

Ballester Hermanos is recalling pouches of Pearl Milling Company original pancake and waffle complete mix because of undeclared milk and soy. People who have an allergy or severe sensitivity to milk and/or soy run the risk of a serious or life-threatening allergic reaction if they consume the recalled

Nelson & Isa Lacteos LLC of Bayshore, NY, is recalling its of Requeson Cheese because it may be contaminated with Listeria monocytogenes.

The recalled Requeson Cheese was sold in 1-pound plastic clam shells in retail locations in New York from May 15 to May 28, 2026. Product was likely

A judge has ruled that how the Food Standards Agency (FSA) charges the meat industry for controls is unlawful.  

According to the High Court judgement, at least some costs were unlawfully included in the assessment of both the FSA’s main hourly rate and the enforcement rate. The

As part of its enforcement activities, the U.S. 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 generally have 15 working days to respond to FDA warning letters.

Added water in fish products and traceability concerns were among the suspected fraud issues raised in April by European countries.

Four alerts mentioned the United States in April including benzoic acid in a soft drink, titanium dioxide in sweets, and two ingredients in supplements not allowed in the EU.

Prime Food Processing LLC is recalling 69 cases of “Dried Herring Fish” because the product was not adequately eviscerated. 

The sale of uneviscerated fish is prohibited under New York State Agriculture and Markets regulations because Clostridium botulinum spores are more likely to be concentrated in the viscera

World Food Safety Day is June 7, 2026

Every few years a number comes along that stops me cold, even after three decades of doing this work. This week, that number is 866 million.

That is how many people the World Health Organization estimates get sick from

Unsafe food is responsible for about 866 million illnesses and 1.5 million deaths a year, according to the World Health Organization (WHO).

The number of illnesses and deaths show the burden is similar to that from tuberculosis, HIV, or malaria. 

The USDA has confirmed the country’s first case of New World screwworm — the parasitic fly poised to harm the Texas $15 billion cattle industry.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture tested a sample from La Pryor in Zavala County at the its National Veterinary Services Laboratories in

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.