29 July | Food Safety News and Free Resources1 |
Deadly ‘shroom products recall update (USA) |
Recall: shelled walnuts for Listeria (USA) |
Listeria deli-meats deaths (USA) |
Shiga-toxin producing E. coli outbreak from (?) raisins (UK) |
Breaded fish fillets with Staphylococcal enterotoxins (Belgium) |
Cucumber recall update (USA) |
Glycerol food additive (E 422) warning (Ireland) |
Outbreak overviews from the United Kingdom, Germany and the Netherlands |
Food Safety Aspects of Cultured Meat (New Paper) |
Webinar - How to Conduct Effective Root Cause Analysis, Corrective & Preventive Actions, 6th August |
Webinar - Emission Legislation: Preparing Global Food Manufacturers for New Regulations, 30th July |
Webinar - The role of procurement in Net Zero product design, 8th August |
💀 🍄 Deadly ‘shroom products recall update (USA)
Foods containing micro-doses of dangerous psychotropic chemicals have been recalled by the brand owner, after originally refusing to recall them. The foods, which include chocolate bars, gummies and cones have caused 74 illnesses with 38 hospitalisations and 2 deaths and are still available in some stores.
⚠ Recall: shelled walnuts for Listeria (USA)
Shelled walnuts have been recalled because routine sampling found Listeria monocytogenes.
💀 Listeria deli-meats mystery deaths (USA)
Two people have died and 28 have been sickened in a listeriosis outbreak linked to deli meats sliced at deli counters (not pre-packaged). The implicated foods came from different supermarkets and grocery store delis and the contaminated meat source has not been identified.
🦠 Shiga-toxin producing E. coli outbreak from (?)raisins (UK)
An outbreak which began in November and has sickened more than 35 people with Shiga toxin-producing E. coli (STEC) has been tentatively linked to raisins from Turkey, using data from patient interviews.
https://www.foodsafetynews.com/2024/07/officials-probe-raisins-link-in-uk-e-coli-outbreak/
☣🐟 Breaded fish fillets with Staphylococcal enterotoxins (Belgium)
Breaded fish fillets have been withdrawn from the market after 4 people became ill from Staphylococcal enterotoxins.
https://webgate.ec.europa.eu/rasff-window/screen/notification/699624
⚠ 🥒 Cucumber recall update (USA)
In response to investigations by state departments of agriculture, the farm that earlier recalled whole cucumbers over Listeria fears has expanded the recall to include cucumbers packed on more dates. There are no reported illnesses.
⚠🥤Glycerol food additive (E 422) warning (Ireland)
The Food Safety Authority of Ireland has warned that young children should avoid consuming slush ice drinks due to the risks posed by the glycerol (E 422) used in such drinks which can cause headaches, nausea and vomiting. They say glycerol is safe for “the general population when used in appropriate amounts” but children’s lower body weight puts them at risk.
📖 Outbreak overviews from the United Kingdom, Germany and the Netherlands
The UK Food Standards Agency (FSA) says the 2023/2024 year had the lowest number of notified food and feed safety incidents in the past six years. Listeria was the top occurring pathogen, overtaking Salmonella which used to be most common. Meat and meat products were the category most often affected, followed by dietetic foods and food supplements.
Meanwhile, Germany has published outbreak and illness data from 2021, with Campylobacter and Salmonella taking the top spot jointly with 60 and 59 outbreaks respectively.
The Netherlands has published a report for 2023 which revealed high numbers of infections caused by Shigella, Shiga toxin-producing E. coli (STEC), norovirus, Cryptosporidium, and leptospirosis.
https://www.foodsafetynews.com/2024/07/fsa-sees-incidents-decline-as-listeria-claims-top-spot/ and https://www.foodsafetynews.com/2024/07/germany-shares-latest-outbreak-and-illness-data/ and https://www.foodsafetynews.com/2024/07/dutch-2023-illness-data-reveals-large-salmonella-outbreak/
📜 Food Safety Aspects of Cultured Meat (New Paper)
This review of existing literature about the safety of cultured (cultivated) meat aims to “(i) identify the range of materials that could be used within the cultured meat process; (ii) explore the potential biological and chemical food safety issues that arise; (iii) identify the known and also novel aspects of the food safety hazard portfolio that will inform hazard analysis and risk assessment approaches, and (iv) position a responsible innovation framework that can be utilized to mitigate food safety concerns with specific emphasis on cultured meat.”
https://ift.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/1750-3841.17228
🎓 Webinar - How to Conduct Effective Root Cause Analysis, Corrective & Preventive Actions, 6th August
In this three-part “Auditing Mastery” webinar series by SCS Global Services, participants will tackle the common misconceptions and missteps when conducting RCAs and the factors that will help your team improve the decision-making processes as well as the practical case studies and tools needed to bring your next non-conformance to resolution for good.
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🎓 Webinar - Emission Legislation: Preparing Global Food Manufacturers for New Regulations, 30th July
In this first session, participants will explore current and upcoming legislation impacting the food industry in this two-part ESG webinar series hosted by TraceGains.
Register here: How to Adapt to Global Sustainability Regulations and Trends: Strategies from ESG Experts — TraceGains
🎓 Webinar - The role of procurement in Net Zero product design, 8th August
In the second part of the series, the webinar will explore how food companies face mounting pressure for environmental accountability, particularly concerning the lifecycle impact of their products.
Register here: How to Adapt to Global Sustainability Regulations and Trends: Strategies from ESG Experts — TraceGains
In this week’s food fraud news:
📌 New guidance on food authenticity;
📌 Olive oil authenticity - new paper;
📌 Analytical strategies for sunflower oil and melamine in sports supplements;
📌 Beef warning, pesticide incidents, olive oil fraud, wine fraud, fake juice.
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22 July | Food Safety News and Free Resources |
Salary and careers for food science professionals (report) |
Outbreak and Recall: Plant-based milks for Listeria (Canada) |
Recall: Reuseable water bottles for excess levels of BPA (France) |
Recall: rice for ‘foreign object of rodent origin’ (USA) |
Recall: Whole cucumbers for Listeria (USA) |
New GFSI Benchmarking Requirements – Consultation Now Open |
Nanowaste: A new food safety hazard? |
Cultivated (cultured) meat approved for pets (Europe) |
Resource: How to conduct a gap analysis for the new FSMA Traceability Rule (USA) |
Webinar - Food Safety Culture: Impact, Implement and Improve, 25th July |
Webinar - How Rapid Development of Technology Has Revolutionized Food Safety, 25th July |
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💲 Salary and careers for food science professionals (report)
The Institute of Food Technologists (IFT), has released its 2024 Compensation and Career Path Report examining career trends in the science of food including compensation, job satisfaction, and workplace challenges. The report includes data on compensation and career trends across various job titles and functions in the food industry, academia, government, and nonprofits. It covers salary breakdowns by geographic region, job function, years of employment, gender, race, and more. Cost US$179 (free for IFT Premier Members and IFT Student Members).
💀⚠️ Outbreak and Recall: Plant-based milks for Listeria (Canada)
Two people have died and at least ten more have been infected from plant-based milk contaminated with Listeria monocytogenes. The products included almond milk, coconut milk, almond-coconut milk and oat milk. The products have been recalled.
⚠️ Recall: Reuseable water bottles for excess levels of BPA (France)
Reusable water bottles for children have been recalled after it was revealed they contain ‘excessive’ levels of the chemical bisphenol A (BPA). Bisphenol A has been banned in France since 2015. The bottles were first placed on sale in August 2023.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cllyg5n7emvo
⚠️💩 Recall: rice for ‘foreign object of rodent origin’ (USA)
More than four thousand cases of wild blend gourmet rice have been recalled because they may contain a foreign object that “appears to be of rodent origin”.
⚠️ 🥒 Recall: Whole cucumbers for Listeria (USA)
Bagged whole salad cucumbers have been recalled after testing showed they contain Listeria monocytogenes.
📩 New GFSI Benchmarking Requirements – Consultation Now Open
The GFSI has drafted new benchmarking requirements with modifications in areas including allergen management, food safety culture, multi-site certification and alignment with Codex. Comments are invited from stakeholders with submissions closing on 17th September 2024.
https://mygfsi.com/news_updates/new-consultation-opens-gfsi-bmrs-v2024/
☠🗑 Nanowaste: A new food safety hazard?
Nanowaste materials are the byproducts of production, use or disposal, of nanomaterials used in the food and related industries. A new paper explores the potential hazards from nanowaste in food systems and identifies knowledge gaps and potential strategies.
https://ift.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/1541-4337.13393
🍗🐕🦺 Cultivated (cultured) meat approved for pets (Europe)
A pet food company has received regulatory clearance to sell cultivated chicken mat in the United Kingdom. It is the first company in Europe to achive approval for cultivated meat and the first pet food approval globally.
📖 Resource: How to conduct a gap analysis for the new FSMA Traceability Rule (USA)
This in-depth article in Food Safety Tech explains how to determine whether your existing programs are compliant with the FSMA Food Traceability Rule, which will be enforced from January 2026, and what to do if they are not.
https://foodsafetytech.com/feature_article/produce-traceability-uncovering-the-gaps-in-your-program/
🎓 Webinar - Food Safety Culture: Impact, Implement and Improve, 25th July
Hosted by Microbac, the webinar provides tips and tricks on implementing and maintaining a strong food safety program involving everyone in your facility. Also, you will learn about the impact of good and bad food safety culture and food safety programs.
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🎓 Webinar - How Rapid Development of Technology Has Revolutionized Food Safety, 25th July
Hosted by Food Safety Magazine, participants will learn about the technological advances and how to use them to benefit their food safety program
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15 July | Food Safety News and Free Resources |
Recall: Raw goat milk cheese for Yersinia enterocolitica (Europe) |
Food maker sentenced over deaths (USA) |
Swedish outbreak data for 2023 released |
Webinar - Demystifying Allergen Quantitative Risk Assessment, on-demand |
Webinar - Food Defense, on-demand |
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⚠️ Recall: Raw goat milk cheese for Yersinia enterocolitica (Europe)
Raw goat’s milk cheese has been withdrawn and recalled in multiple European countries after 122 became sick with Yersinia enterocolitica infections.
https://webgate.ec.europa.eu/rasff-window/screen/notification/696589
💀 Food maker sentenced over deaths (USA)
A man whose company made raw milk cheese containing Listeria monocytogenes which sickened eight people and caused the deaths of two people in 2016 has been sentenced to three years probation, a $100,000 fine and 240 hours of community service.
The FDA inspected the cheese-making facility after the outbreak and discovered that employees did not wash their lower or upper arms before submerging them in whey to stir and break up curds. The company did not perform microbial testing for sanitation monitoring and rarely performed environmental microbial tests. However, when they did, around one-quarter were positive for L. monocytogenes.
📑Swedish outbreak data for 2023 released
A report published by a report published by the State Veterinary Institute (SVA) with help from the Public Health Agency of Sweden (Folkhälsomyndigheten) and the Swedish Food Agency (Livsmedelsverket) shares human infection data from 2023 and discusses a number of foodborne illness outbreaks and clusters of illnesses, including from Salmonella, Listeria and STEC.
https://www.foodsafetynews.com/2024/07/swedish-pathogen-stats-show-large-salmonella-outbreak/
🎓 Webinar - Demystifying Allergen Quantitative Risk Assessment, on-demand
This on-demand webinar is a replay of one delivered by ILSI Europe Food Allergy Task Force in November 2023. It is practical guidance on applying quantitative risk assessment to food allergens in food operations, including tools and methods to streamline the process of collecting data for food allergen risk assessments, thereby facilitating their implementation.
🎓 Webinar - Food Defense: Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow
This on-demand webinar is a replay of one recorded at the Food Safety Consortium Conference in 2021. It “discusses pre-FSMA IA Rule voluntary food defense programs, compliance timelines, and regulatory compliance vs. enterprise risk based approaches to food defense. Presenters will address the status of Food Defense plan quick checks and share insights on Food Defense Plan reanalysis. Participants gain insights on threat intelligence sources and food defense-based research updates.”
8 July | Food Safety News and Free Resources |
Deaths from Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (USA) |
Mushroom gummies recalled after consumers hospitalized (Australia) |
Microplastics in edible oil |
Salmonella in cucumbers: source found (USA) |
Bread manufacturer warned for declaring allergens (USA) |
Webinar - Assessing food quality and safety SWIR and X-ray inspection techniques, 16th July |
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💀 Deaths from Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (USA)
Two men who ate venison from deer herds infected with the prion disease Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD) died from Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD) in the USA within a few months of each other, which suggests the prion disease was transmitted from the deer meat to the men. This makes venison from CWD-infected herds potentially deadly. Confusingly, the case report also states that “no conclusive evidence [of] cross-species prion transmission [of CWD] exists.”
https://www.neurology.org/doi/10.1212/WNL.0000000000204407
🍄Mushroom gummies recalled after consumers hospitalized (Australia)
Last week we reported that a US company was refusing to recall chocolate bars with psychoactive ingredients after consumers were hospitalised. In this week’s news, confectionery items have been recalled in Australia after 5 to 10 people required medical attention after experiencing hallucinations, anxiety, dizziness and loss of consciousness, after eating the products. Australian authorities said the confectionery contained ‘unapproved novel ingredients’.
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🌻Microplastics in edible oil
Commercial edible vegetable oils including extra-virgin olive oil, olive oil, sunflower oil, and mixed seed oil from Italy and Spain have been analysed for the presence of microplastics. Microplastics were found in all the samples, with no statistically significant differences between the oil types or between products packaged in glass or PET bottles. Most of the microplastics were fragments with particle sizes less than 100 µm. The most common plastics were polyethylene and polypropylene.
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0308814624002152
🦠Salmonella in cucumbers: source found (USA)
An outbreak of salmonellosis linked to fresh cucumbers has been blamed (in part) on untreated canal water which was used for subsoil irrigation at a cucumber farm in Florida. The canal water contained a strain of Salmonella that matched the strain in some of the victims. Other soil and water samples from the same farm contained other strains of Salmonella.
https://www.seattlepi.com/news/article/untreated-water-used-on-cucumbers-tied-to-19552206.php
🥖Bread manufacturer warned for declaring allergens (USA)
In a reversal of the common food safety problem of food companies failing to declare allergens on labels, a manufacturer has been warned for declaring allergens that may not be present.
A company that is owned by the largest bread manufacturer in the U.S., responsible for brands including Sara Lee, Entenmann’s, Thomas’ and Ball Park Buns & Rolls, has received a warning letter from the FDA. The FDA has accused the company of declaring sesame and certain tree nuts as ingredients in certain products despite those foods not being used as actual ‘ingredients’.
It appears the manufacturer decided they could not guarantee their products would be free of those allergens and wanted to keep allergic consumers safe. However, the company chose not to use voluntary ‘May Contain’ statements on their packs. Such statements may only be used if the company has made “every effort” to prevent allergen cross-contamination in their facilities and processes.
The FDA sent the warning letter after site visits and investigations. It has accused the company of “serious violations” of federal food allergen labelling requirements and said the products are misbranded.
🎓Webinar - Assessing food quality and safety SWIR and X-ray inspection techniques, 16th July
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In this week’s food fraud news:
📌 Report: Intentional Adulteration of Foods with Chemicals;
📌 Suspected Frauds in Europe (Agri-food and Feed Latest Report);
📌 Milk, fish warnings.
📌 Suspicious mushrooms.
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1st July | Food Safety News and Free Resources |
Food defence investigation: cook detained over mass botulism outbreak (Russia) |
Outbreak: poisoning from ‘Shruumz’ Chocolate Bars but no recall (USA) |
Unusual recall: Noodles that are ‘too spicy’ (Denmark) |
Meat withdrawal for traceability and use-by date breaches (United Kingdom) |
GFSI endorsement withdrawn for certain food standards |
Followup: Canned coffee recall (USA) |
Lawmakers consider delaying the US traceability rule (USA) |
Wild boar liver contains almost 5 times more PFAS chems than allowed in food (Europe) |
Unsafe levels of BPA and glycidol in canned tuna (Switzerland) |
Leafy Greens and STEC – new information |
Investigation into US FDA’s handling of the infant formula crisis (Report) |
Intentional adulteration incident followup: lawsuits (USA) |
Webinar - Staying ahead of the curve: Harnessing informatics to meet changing F&B consumer expectations, 11th July |
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😮 Food defence investigation: cook detained over mass botulism outbreak (Russia)
The cook for a food delivery company has been detained, along with the director of the company and the food quality director, by authorities who are investigating a mass food poisoning outbreak in which more than 160 customers were diagnosed with botulism, including dozens who have been hospitalized with multiple patients in intensive care. The outbreak has been linked to canned beans used in a salad sold by the company and authorities have seized more than 172 tons of product.
🔮Outbreak: poisoning from ‘Shruumz’ Chocolate Bars but (?) no recall (USA)
A company that manufactured food products which have hospitalised 23 people with symptoms including Seizures, Decreased level of consciousness, Respiratory failure and hallucinations has refused to recall the implicated products.
“The FDA has asked the company to recall the implicated products, but the firm has refused.”
The news report implies that the products are claimed to produce hallucinogenic effects and says testing has revealed the presence of hallucinogenic chemicals in the products. It says the CDC has warned people not to eat foods that claim to produce feelings of euphoria, hallucinations, or psychedelic effects as they may contain undeclared ingredients and may cause severe illnesses.
🌶️Unusual recall: Noodles that are ‘too spicy’ (Denmark)
Danish authorities have withdrawn certain noodles from a popular Korean brand from the market because they are so spicy that they might cause acute symptoms, particularly in children. The noodles are sold worldwide and the affected products are not defective.
https://www.sbs.com.au/news/article/denmark-recalls-instant-noodles-for-being-too-spicy/f971p9kk9
🥩 Meat withdrawal for traceability and use-by date breaches (United Kingdom)
The UK Food Standards Agency has advised businesses which purchased meat from a certain meat supplier to not use it, as it may have incorrect use-by dates, traceability breaches and may be unsafe.
https://www.food.gov.uk/news-alerts/alert/fsa-fafa-02-2024-update-2
🚫 GFSI endorsement withdrawn for certain food standards
Equitable Food Initiative (EFI)’s food safety standards, as listed below, have been disendorsed by the GFSI (Global Food Safety Institute). The standards owner has been asked to provide evidence of “re-alignment [of the standards] to GFSI Benchmarking requirements v 2020”
Food Safety Standards, Guidance, & Interpretations Version 2.0, November 30th, 2018, with the scopes:
BI Farming of Plants (other than grains and pulses)
BIII Pre-process Handling of Plant Products.
😱 Followup: Canned coffee recall (USA)
Last week we reported that more than 100 brands of canned coffee, made by the same manufacturer, are being recalled because the manufacturer did not file their low-acid canned foods process with the FDA, as required by regulation. It’s since been revealed that the manufacturer is SQF-certified. How the SQF auditors did not pick up this basic food safety (and regulatory) issue is beyond me. Dreadful!
Source, further insights: (LinkedIn post comments)
Source,initial story: https://www.foodsafetynews.com/2024/06/canned-coffee-products-sold-under-128-coffee-roaster-names-recalled-over-potential-clostridium-botulinum-contamination/
🧑⚖️Lawmakers consider delaying the US traceability rule (USA)
Fourteen years after the Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA) was introduced in 2010, a final piece of the food safety system, traceability, has not yet been implemented. The enforcement date for the traceability rule is 2026. Lawmakers in Congress are now hearing a bill that would delay or perhaps even prevent the implementation of the rule. Food safety advocates and consumer groups oppose the bill.
🐗 Wild boar liver with almost 5 times more PFAS chems than allowed in food discovered (Europe)
Researchers assessing background environmental levels of PFAS chemicals analysed the livers of wild boars from a national park in the Czech Republic and discovered concentrations almost five times higher than the amount allowed in meat for human consumption. Wild boar meat and offal is eaten in many European countries.
https://phys.org/news/2024-06-national-wild-boar-toxic-pfas.amp and
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0048969724013263?via%3Dihub
🐟 ‘Unsafe’ levels of BPA and glycidol in canned tuna (Switzerland)
A consumer group that tested canned and jarred tuna (white and pink) in oil (sunflower or olive oil) for BPA, glycidol, mercury and 3-MCPD discovered disturbing results for BPA but acceptable results for mercury and 3-MCPD.
All of the canned products (n = 10) and most of the jarred products contained BPA at levels higher than the new European safety threshold, set in 2023 (a tolerable daily intake of 0.2 nanograms per kilogram (ng/kg) of body weight per day). Some samples exceeded the limits by up to 50 times. A product that claimed to be in a BPA-free can had high levels of BPA in the food which appeared to have migrated from the can.
Glycidol, which is formed during oil processing, was found in all the jarred products and most of the canned products. The products with sunflower oil had less glycidol than the olive oil products.
https://www.saldo.ch/tests/produktetests/detail/artikeldetail/kein-einziger-thon-ist-empfehlenswert
🥬Leafy Greens and STEC – new information
The US FDA has published preliminary findings of a 5-year study seeking to understand the contamination sources for pathogenic bacteria in leafy greens in the South West growing region of the United States. The study included the collection of 5,000 samples, each of which was tested for the presence of generic E. coli, Salmonella, and Shiga toxin-producing E. coli (STEC), including E. coli O157:H7. Airborne dust from concentrated animal feeding operations was found to be capable of carrying pathogens to irrigation water canals, soil, and plant tissue. Birds and other wildlife do not seem to be significant sources of STEC or E. coli O157:H7 in the growing region. Water run-off from animal feeding operations and direct contamination of irrigation canals also seem to be insignificant compared to airborne dust contamination of irrigation water.
🍼Investigation into US FDA’s handling of the infant formula crisis (Report)
The US Department of Health and Human Services OFFICE OF INSPECTOR GENERAL has published its findings into the FDA’s response to the infant formula Cronobacter disaster in 2022, which included at least two infant deaths. They concluded that the FDA’s policies and procedures were inadequate. Reminder: it took the FDA more than 15 months to address a whistleblower report of serious sanitation problems at the Abbott manufacturing facility in Michigan. A second complaint was not actioned for almost 4 months and an inspection of the facility was not initiated until 102 days later. The Inspector General’s office confirmed these “mission critical” failures and noted that “FDA did not have sufficient policies and procedures on how to initiate an infant formula recall under its FDA-required recall authority.”
⚖️Intentional adulteration incident follow-up: lawsuits (USA)
A man who is alleged to have deliberately contaminated food at a restaurant in Kansas has been subject to a ninth lawsuit from a group of diners. The man has also been charged with 22 felonies for allegedly contaminating food and one count of criminal damage.
The lawsuits claim the restaurant served a ‘defective product’ to its customers and breached the implied warranty that its food was safe to eat.
https://www.kansascity.com/news/local/article289516564.html
🎓 Webinar - Staying ahead of the curve: Harnessing informatics to meet changing F&B consumer expectations, 11th July
The New Food Team will be hosting a webinar that will delve into the challenges faced by F&B manufacturers and explore innovative solutions to maintain quality, safety, and compliance while keeping pace with market demands.
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In this week’s food fraud news:
📌 Beverage fraud modus operandi;
📌 Fish fraud warnings;
📌 Horse meat alerts;
📌 Organic fraud, halal fraud and more.
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