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AU: Should I throw away food once a fly has landed on it?
The Conversation:Â It only takes a single fly to alight on your picnic lunch to make you uneasy about what germs may have landed with it. But what harm can come from a fly landing on your food? Should you throw it away?
There are hundreds of different fly species in Australia. Many of these flies pose a health risk but none hang about our homes more than the house fly.
Read Article →AU: New food safety summer TV campaign launched
Food Safety Information Council: A new TV community service announcement was launched today for the start of the Food Safety Information Council’s summer entertaining campaign.
‘Summer and the holiday period are a great time to get together to entertain family and friends but it is also a time that the risk of food poisoning increases with warmer temperatures,’ Council Chair Rachelle Williams said.
Read Article →AU: Survey of tinned fruits for tin, lead and arsenic
Food Standards Australia New Zealand: In 2015 Food Standards Australia New Zealand (FSANZ) tested canned and bottled fruit products following reports of high levels of metals in some products.
FSANZ’s survey, conducted by an independent laboratory on domestic and imported products, found very small amounts of lead and tin in all products tested
Read Article →US: Local and organic food has extra safety risks. Just ask Chipotle.
Vox.com: Chipotle likes to emphasize the quality of its food, a goal summed up in the company’s slogan, “Food with integrity.” So it might seem paradoxical that Chipotle, of all companies, has gotten hit by a string of food safety problems.
Read Article →AU: CSIRO/University of Tasmania Postgraduate Scholarship in Food Safety (3 available).
PhD Seek: Are you passionate about microbiology or food science? Apply now for a CSIRO/University of Tasmania Postgraduate Scholarship. Candidates will enrol at the University of Tasmania and undertake their PhD research with CSIRO.
Read Article →UK: Genomics helps detect Salmonella outbreaks
Food Safety Watch:Â Public Health England (PHE) has released information about how it uses the developing science of genomics to identify and characterise Salmonella isolates and detect related clusters of illness that could signify foodborne outbreaks.
Read Article →AU: No bath for the Christmas turkey – food safety tips for the holiday period
Food safety Information Council:Â While Santa might be real, the Food Safety Information Council says there are a lot of food safety Christmas myths out there including the need to wash the turkey before cooking it.
According to Rachelle Williams, Council Chair, 68% of people in the Council’s most recent national survey washed their turkey before cooking it.
Read Article →AU: Gastro outbreak aboard cruise ship bound for Sydney hits 182 passengers
News.com.au: There’s something you can get aboard cruise ships that isn’t advertised in the brochures: a violent bout of gastro.
That’s what happened to passengers who docked at Sydney’s international cruise terminal in The Rocks on Wednesday morning. A total of 182 passengers out of the 3566 on board the luxury Royal Caribbean cruise ship Explorer of the Seas have been struck down by the stomach bug.
Read Article →AU: New Horticulture Innovation Centre a boost for Tasmanian agriculture
ABC Rural: Tasmania has secured a new $3 million centre for innovation in Australian horticulture. Part of the Federal Government’s Industrial Transformation program, the national training centre for horticultural innovation will be based at the University of Tasmania.
The aim of the centre is to develop and produce new fresh fruit and vegetable products for both the export and local market. Woolworths has signed up as the commercial partner in Australia’s new Centre for Innovative Horticultural Products.
Read Article →NZ: Strain in fifth Hepatitis A case confirmed
Ministry for Primary Industries: Results from testing have now confirmed that the fifth person, who recently contracted Hepatitis A, as reported last week, has the same strain of the virus as the other 4 people who fell sick with Hepatitis A in late October and early November this year.
“All 5 people who have fallen sick with Hepatitis A have the same strain, and all 5 have consumed the Fruzio Mixed Berry product recalled earlier this month,†says MPI director plants food and environment Peter Thomson.
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