Authorities in a Spanish city have suspended the permit of a company that provided catering to several schools after a large outbreak. The outbreak affected 149 children and five teachers from four Palma schools on the Balearic Islands this past December. The suspected food was a rice dish. Sick people had abdominal pain, diarrhea and

The Food and Drug Administration has warned about particular scallops harvested from prohibited water that may be contaminated. The scallops were purchased by restaurants, distributors, and food retailers in Illinois, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York, and Pennsylvania and may have been further distributed. According to the FDA, Intershell International Corp. received whole, live scallops from

By News Desk on January 13, 2024 The Food and Drug Administration continues using import alerts to enforce U.S. food safety regulations for food from foreign countries. The agency updates and modifies the alerts as needed. Recent modifications to FDA’s import alerts, as posted by the agency, are listed below.  Click here to go to the

Sample label of implicated oysters An outbreak of norovirus infections has spurred a warning from the Food and Drug Administration about certain oysters from Mexico. The FDA is advising restaurants and food retailers not to serve or sell and to dispose of oysters and consumers not to eat oysters from Sociedad Acuicola GolPac (MX 06

While plant-based milk is a “quiet superstar” ​in the broader plant-based category with the Plant Based Food Association reporting household penetration of plant-based milk upwards of 40% in 2023 with a repeat purchase rate of 75%, the category saw sales slide in 2023. According to Circana​, plant-based milk gallon sales fell 7.2% in the year ending

Tonnino, known for its yellowfin tuna packaged in cans and jars, launched six new products in December 2023 with a focus on convenience, flavor and snacking, and suggested retail price of $3.39/can to $6.99/jar at select retailers, including Whole Foods, Walmart, Fairway and Amazon.For children, the brand introduced its line of canned yellowfin tuna with

The study found that vast quantities of nanoplastics – around 240,000 in a litre – could be found in bottled water. This was between 10 and 100 times greater than they had previously estimated.A more dangerous prospect ​Microplastics form when plastics break down into smaller and smaller bits. But it doesn’t always stop there.  Most

Steakholder Foods (formerly MeaTech 3D) works in meat alternatives: the Israeli start-up is an innovator of cell cultivation technology – and considers itself the first and only cultivated cell developer listed on the Nasdaq Stock Market – while also developing 3D printing technology to produce meat and fish products from plant- and/or cell-based ingredients.It is

The gut health experts at Zoe have bottled their decades of nutrition research and created a “first-of-its-kind” gut shot that launched in partnership with UK retailer Marks & Spencer (M&S) in the new year, creating a healthy dose of intrigue and excitement.The kefir based shot contains 5 billion live cultures from 14 different strains of

LAC-Shield is a heat-killed Lacticaseibacillus paracasei ​MCC1849 strain. As it is heat and pH stable, it could be incorporated into general food products that typically undergo high heat processing, such as bars, cereals, as well as powdered drinks.In Japan alone, it has been used in over 1,000 dietary supplements and functional food products since it