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Contractor sentenced for faking food hygiene checks

1 month ago

A former contractor has admitted offenses relating to faking food safety inspections in England.

Lily Yirenkyi was appointed as a temporary Environmental Health Officer (EHO) by Thurrock Council in 2020. Within weeks of her employment, concerns about her work were identified by the environmental health team. These were referred to

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Audit costs, time, and resources among key concerns in survey

1 month ago

A survey on audits has revealed they are valued but there is a need to shift perceptions from them being seen as a costly obligation.

Recurring themes were concerns about compliance-driven approaches, auditor shortages, audit fatigue, digital readiness, and the potential of internal checks, according to a report from

Joe Whitworth

A revolution is on the way in how apples are harvested

1 month ago

Gentle suction mixed with the dependable pull of gravity. That’s the basic principle behind a new way of harvesting apples. In what some would call a transformative system, it was designed to ensure fruit quality, harvest efficiency, better worker conditions, and even food safety.

Cookson Beecher

Home-delivered meals linked to UK Listeria death

1 month ago

An outbreak of Listeria monocytogenes infections, which resulted in one death, was caused by contaminated home-delivered meals, according to the UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA).

In mid-April 2025, the Gastrointestinal Infections, Food Safety and One Health (GIFSOH) Division was informed of two cases of listeriosis with sample

Joe Whitworth

The Sunday Edition: GMOs

1 month ago
Just last week, USDA’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service asked for public comments on yet another GMO. It wants input about a petition to deregulate a type of soybean, developed using genetic engineering to control certain lepidopteran pests.
Dan Flynn

Scientists push for toxoplasmosis recognition

1 month 1 week ago

Scientists have called for toxoplasmosis to be listed as a neglected tropical disease by the World Health Organization (WHO).

The Toxoplasma parasite can cause ocular toxoplasmosis, an eye infection that damages the retina and results in permanent vision loss.

People can become infected through eating raw or undercooked meat, contaminated

Joe Whitworth

Publisher’s Platform: There Is No Premarket Approval for Food, Says the Senior Food Adviser at HHS. Ten Days Earlier His Own Secretary Called the Exception to It a Loophole That Industry Hijacked.

1 month 1 week ago
A recall is not proof the system worked. It is a notice, sent after the fact, usually by the company that failed, telling you that something already went wrong and you may have eaten it. Calling this a good year for recalls is not a defense of the FDA. It is an insult to the people counted in it.
Bill Marler

Publisher’s Platform: The President Has Nominated Dr. Heidi Overton to Run FDA. She Would Inherit the Largest Cyclospora Outbreak Ever Recorded, and Here Is the To-Do List I Would Put on Her Desk.

1 month 1 week ago
I have watched commissioners arrive since 1993, each with an agenda, and I have outlasted every one of them. That is not a boast. It is the problem, and it is the reason I am writing this the day the name came out rather than the day something goes wrong.
Bill Marler
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