Published: Feb 27, 2020

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration posted a warning letter issued to Jimmy John’s Franchise LLC for engaging in a pattern of receiving and offering for sale adulterated fresh produce, specifically clover sprouts and cucumbers.

Published: Feb 27, 2020

Supermarket shelves in Singapore are once again stocked with food products from Fukushima, after a nine-year hiatus following the nuclear plant meltdown in that prefecture, that followed the tsunami and earthquake of 2011.

Published: Feb 25, 2020

Last week, officers from the Immigration and Checkpoints Authority (ICA) seized thousands of cartons of duty-unpaid cigarettes declared as vegetables in a lorry.

Published: Feb 25, 2020

Philippine government researchers are in the thick of finalizing their studies on how to address the problem caused by the Cecid fly, as the infestation threatens the nation’s mango yield.

Published: Feb 24, 2020

A team from the Fraunhofer Institute for Cell Therapy and Immunology, Branch Bioanalytics and Bioprocesses are working with the German microbiology and food analysis laboratory Selektis LLC as part of a ProFIT project running from 2018 to 2020.

Published: Feb 21, 2020

US Federal officials still can’t say for sure where the blackberries came from, but today they repeated their public warning about fresh berries that were sold in the fall of 2019 and linked to a multi-state hepatitis A outbreak.

Published: Feb 20, 2020

Between November 7th, 2019, and January 11th, 2020, 165 people were infected with the outbreak strain of Salmonella Javiana according to reports from 14 states.

Published: Feb 17, 2020

A Canadian couple got quite a shock when they wanted to enjoy a fresh green pepper they had just bought.

Published: Feb 14, 2020

Research that examines Listeria survival on whole apples in storage and after waxing could fill data gaps and help the industry target risk-reduction measures in packinghouses.

Published: Feb 13, 2020

As of September 30, 2019, the FDA has tested 1,214 fresh herb samples (746 domestic, 468 import).

Published: Feb 12, 2020

According to business newspaper El Economista, Morocco has placed an order for 440 million sterile Ceratitis capitata from Argentina.

Published: Feb 10, 2020

Foodborne illness hits about one in six people in the United States every year.

Published: Feb 09, 2020

Food Standards Australia New Zealand (FSANZ) is reassessing the need to amend the Australia New Zealand Food Standards Code, to enact a primary production and processing standard to manage food safety for high-risk horticulture.

Published: Feb 06, 2020

After affecting six countries in Europe as well as Turkey, the United States and China, a particularly devastating virus is threatening tomatoes, peppers and chilli plants in France.

Published: Feb 04, 2020

Everybody is talking about Zero Residue nowadays.

Published: Feb 04, 2020

Capscium chlorosis virus (CaCV) is a Tospovirus responsible of significant economic losses in capsicums, chillies and tomatoes in Hawaii, Australia, India and South East Asia.

Published: Jan 22, 2020

Phytosanitary officers at the Saint Petersburg port refused entry for the tomatoes after the discovery of a dangerous insect.

Published: Jan 22, 2020

Ready-to-drink pre-mixed spirits sold in major UK retailers are “unnecessarily high” in hidden sugar and calories, a new product survey has discovered.

Published: Jan 19, 2020

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration, along with the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and state and local partners, previously reported on Dec. 12 that public health experts were tracking three separate outbreaks linked to romaine lettuce

Published: Jan 14, 2020

Last Saturday, the Telangana High Court criticized the state government, pointing out that it has not been able to meet the minimum standards of food safety, even failing to curb the use of calcium carbide among fruit traders, which is used to artificiall