Despite the Listeria outbreak beginning months ago and multiple recalls happening the number of ill and death linked to the outbreak has been growing. Please check your freezers. “When it doubt, throw it out.” Note: Epidemiologic, laboratory, and traceback data show that certain meals produced by FreshRealm are contaminated with Listeria monocytogenes and are making people sick. Pasta...

New Zealand Food Safety has decided to keep glyphosate residue limits the same following a public consultation. There was a proposal to change maximum residue levels (MRLs) for glyphosate in wheat, barley and oats to 10 mg/kg but the limit has been set at 0.1mg/kg, which is the same as the current default level. Vincent...

USDA’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) reports that after a summer pause, Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza has returned in significant numbers. Since Sept. 1, another 3.88 million birds have been lost either to the virus or by culling to prevent its spread.  The most recent outbreaks affected 66 flocks, including  31 commercial and...

Product testing in Denmark has found traces of animal DNA that were not on the ingredient list — although the majority were in low quantities. Fødevarestyrelsen (the Danish Veterinary and Food Administration) said a new DNA method would make it easier to uncover fraud with meat and fish. More than 20 percent of samples contained...

Listen to the article 3 min This audio is auto-generated. Please let us know if you have feedback. Dive Brief: Twenty-five states and Washington, D.C., are suing the USDA, claiming that the agency unlawfully suspended SNAP benefits during the ongoing government shutdown, the office of the New York Attorney General Letitia James announced Tuesday. The...

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The FDA is updating its alert about evelated levels of lead in cinnamon to include DEVI-brand and BaiLiFeng-brand ground cinnamon. So far 18 cinnamon brands have been found to have dangerous levels of lead. For a list and photos of products, click here. The original alert from the Food and Drug Administration was posted on...

Listen to the article 3 min This audio is auto-generated. Please let us know if you have feedback. Dive Brief: A nutrition nonprofit says it has rolled out the first certification in the U.S. for food companies to highlight their products as non-ultraprocessed. The Non-UPF Program, launched at the end of 2024, said Thursday it...

Scientists have been awarded funding to explore how some healthy people are naturally protected from being infected by Salmonella Typhimurium. The five-year project will receive more than £4.5 million ($6 million) in Wellcome Discovery funding. Wellcome is a charitable foundation that supports scientific research. Led by Professor Jay Hinton, with help from Dr. Blanca Perez-Sepulveda, Professor Roy Goodacre...

Listen to the article 3 min This audio is auto-generated. Please let us know if you have feedback. Dive Brief: Danone said it is struggling to meet demand for its high-protein yogurts due to a lack of manufacturing capacity in the U.S. The Activia and Oikos owner is “quite seriously kept by production capacity” as...