Category Archive: Food Safety

 FSA – Food Hygiene – A Guide for Businesses This guide is for restaurants, cafés and other catering businesses, as well as shops selling food. I hope this FIND OF THE WEEK is beneficial to you.

 Fenugreek seed are the source…

In Germany, the daily numbers of reported HUS/EHEC cases are decreasing steadily. In France, investigations continue, but initial findings suggest that locally grown bean or seed sprouts might be involved. In Sweden, the source of infection remains under investigation.  Read … Continue reading →

 FSA issues warning about eating clay…

EHEC outbreak: Update 15 14-06-2011 On 10 June, German authorities stated that mounting epidemiological and food-chain evidence indicated that bean and seed sprouts (including fenugreek, mung beans, lentils, adzuki beans and alfalfa) are the vehicle of the outbreak in Germany. … Continue reading →

WHO Update 12 As of 8 June, 13 other European countries had reported a total of 35 HUS cases (1 fatal) and 61 EHEC cases (none fatal). There were 2 more HUS cases and 3 fewer EHEC cases reported since … Continue reading →

 Seven Enforcement Orders Served in May… Enforcement orders are increasingly served on all type of food businesses. Wether in the past mostly restaurants and take away were served with orders, NOW the food industry e.g. bakeries and butchers are on the list … Continue reading →

 Q&A: E.coli outbreak

 BBC News 01/06/2011

 Food safety related words – Frank Yiannas (Food Safety Wal-Mart Stores, Inc.)