Published: Sep 21, 2018

Research by Allergy UK found that 92% of those living with a severe allergy are concerned about eating out as they have less control over what is going into their food.

Published: Sep 21, 2018

Police in Australia have arrested a young boy who admitted to inserting needles into strawberries as part of an apparent prank.

Published: Sep 20, 2018

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) have approved Phageguard-E as a “GRAS” (Generally Recognized as Safe) food processing aid against E.coli O157.

Published: Sep 20, 2018

Health Canada’s ban on partially hydrogenated oils (PHOs) — the largest source of industrially produced trans-fats in foods — has come into effect today.

Published: Sep 20, 2018

‘Cassava brown streak virus’ is a plant disease that is characterized by patches of yellow mixed with the normal green color on the leaves of cassava plants.

Published: Sep 20, 2018

It’s football time, and that means tailgating. Keep your food safe at fall football cookouts with food safety tips from Auburn University.

Published: Sep 19, 2018

Fifteen men have died and 33 others hospitalised after coming down with suspected alcohol poisoning, said Malaysian police on Tuesday (Sep 18).

Published: Sep 19, 2018

Mosquito larvae have been observed ingesting microplastics that can be passed up the food chain, researchers said on Wednesday (Sep 18), potentially uncovering a new way that the polluting particles could damage the environment.

Published: Sep 18, 2018

The FDA reports that advances in testing helped investigators during an outbreak of cyclospora infections this summer.

Published: Sep 18, 2018

Last week, sewing needles were found in punnets of strawberries purchased in five states or territories - the latest in Tasmania.

Published: Sep 18, 2018

The US Food and Drug Administration said it found an additional "unexpected impurity" in three lots of Torrent Pharmaceuticals' recalled valsartan drug.

Published: Sep 18, 2018

It's one of the most well-known tenets of modern medicine: An aspirin a day keeps the doctor away.

Published: Sep 17, 2018

In accordance with the Food Safety Act and Regulation, the Environmental Health Directorate has informed the public that according to information received from the involved company, and later through the Rapid Alert System for Food and Feed, the following

Published: Sep 14, 2018

Authorities in Australia on Thursday said they had four confirmed incidents of “contaminated strawberries” after an individual reportedly discovered a needle inside a berry after taking a bite.

Published: Sep 14, 2018

France called on Thursday for protective measures following reports that African swine fever had been detected in wild boars in Belgium near the French border.

Published: Sep 14, 2018

A disease called citrus greening has devastated Florida’s citrus industry. Agriculture officials are hoping they can stop it before California suffers the same fate.

Published: Sep 14, 2018

One of the freezing tunnels in Greenyard's Hungarian plant has been found to be the source of the Listeria monocytogenes outbreak that led to the large-scale recall this summer.

Published: Sep 14, 2018

The Russian Agricultural Products Inspection Agency Rosselhoznadzor reported that 57,000 tons of peaches and nectarines were sent back to the Turkey due to a fungus.

Published: Sep 13, 2018

A weight loss product promoted as an appetite suppressant for weight loss was found to contain two undeclared potent chemicals that could pose serious health risks to individuals with heart conditions, the Health Sciences Authority (HSA) said on Thursday.

Published: Sep 13, 2018

This year, the whole of the Balkans region is facing big problems with virus infection.