The Food Standards Agency has published 10 short videos to help caterers produce food safely. Each video is about a minute long and covers specific food hygiene practices.

A Journal of Infectious Diseases paper co-authored by Bill Keene has created media furor and a press release competition over a norovirus outbreak that hit 13 members of a soccer team. It could have been a gym bag, or a plastic bag - but the implicated vector happened to be a reusable grocery bag that was left in a hotel room that contained a bunch of food.

Early in her tenure as the USDA’s Undersecretary for Food Safety, Dr. Elisabeth Hagen said she wanted to prevent foodborne illnesses, not just react to them. And she continues to repeat those words. It is her mantra, so to speak. But she is not just talking like so many in DC make a living doing. She is taking actions that will help prevent unnecessary illnesses.

Food safety bosses are planning a major hygiene blitz on poultry farms in a bid to cut levels of a nasty food-poisoning bug found in chickens. The Food Safety Authority of Ireland (FSAI) hopes to reduce cases of the campylobacter bacteria by visiting chicken farms around the country and introducing new health initiatives.