Published: Jan 06, 2020

Fruit fly larvae have been detected i

Published: Jan 06, 2020

According to a four-year government survey, the vast majority (92%) of fruit and vegetables sold in Brazil are within national safe levels for pesticide contamination.

Published: Dec 30, 2019

Almost €15 billion (US$16.7 billion) of the EU’s annual agricultural output is directly attributed to insect pollinators – insects that carry pollen from one plant or part of a plant to another – according to a report by the European Parliament (EP).

Published: Dec 24, 2019

At least 33 people at four health-care facilities in Southeastern Pennsylvania, and 26 in schools in Delaware were sickened by the Salmonella Javiana found in fresh cut fruit which was recalled on December 7th.

Published: Dec 23, 2019

The Rapid Alert System for Food and Feed (RASFF) has reported two alerts issued by the Danish authorities on December 16 and 18, after having detected the presence of chlorpyrifos and chlorpyrifos-methyl in clementines imported from Spain.

Published: Dec 23, 2019

At this time, three dozen more patients and two more US states are officially part of an E. coli outbreak traced to romaine, according to a renewed public alert from the CDC.

Published: Dec 20, 2019

The Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) has reported the seizure of 210 kg of marijuana in Chennai on Tuesday.

Published: Dec 19, 2019

The Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (Sader) has reported that the US authorities stopped 43 shipments of Mexican tomatoes in recent weeks, on suspicion that they might be infected by the tomato brown rugose fruit virus, ToBRFV.

Published: Dec 17, 2019

The Australian Department of Agriculture has considered the biosecurity risks for Australia associated with the importation of commercially produced fresh avocado fruit for human consumption from Chile.

Published: Dec 17, 2019

Last Thursday, the Punjab Food Authority (PFA) launched a crackdown on toxic vegetables cultivated, with industrial waste and sewerage water in the provincial metropolis.

Published: Dec 16, 2019

Today, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration is providing an update on our investigation of an outbreak of E. coli O157:H7 illnesses linked to romaine lettuce.

Published: Dec 11, 2019

State and federal officials are investigating a new multistate outbreak of E. coli O157:H7 infections.

Published: Dec 10, 2019

The Public Health Agency of Canada has identified one additional E. coli illness in Canada with a similar genetic fingerprint to illnesses reported in the ongoing United States E. coli outbreak linked to romaine lettuce harvested in Salinas, California wh

Published: Dec 09, 2019

Officials in Sweden are investigating a recent increase in the number of cryptosporidiosis cases.

Published: Dec 05, 2019

Authorities in Hungary have not acted to strengthen the system of official controls for food businesses despite a deadly multi-country Listeria outbreak, according to DG Sante in Europe.

Published: Dec 04, 2019

On Sunday, the Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI) seized one ton of artificially ripened bananas and plantains from a market in Tiruppur.

Published: Nov 28, 2019

A farmer in Japan’s Ibaraki prefecture has seen his entire crop of 15 tonnes of sweet potatoes pilfered earlier this month.

Published: Nov 25, 2019

Congress MP Pratap Singh Bajwa was referring to Health Minister Harsh Vardhan's suggestion of eating carrots, and Prakash Javadekar's tweet where urged people to start listening to music to check the effects of pollution.

Published: Nov 21, 2019

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) will begin broad testing of romaine lettuce for E. coli and salmonella. The agency made the decision in the wake of recent E. coli outbreaks.

Published: Nov 21, 2019

The Brown marmorated stink bug (Halyomorpha halys) is an insect of Asian origin that was first detected in Spain in 2016, although it had already been detected in other European countries since 2004, and whose proliferation poses a very serious threat to