Food Safety & Recalls
AI-generated weekly research reports from primary sources. · 16 reports
Food Safety & Recalls
The first week of September 2026 saw the UK's allergen recall pattern extend into a new month with two fresh incidents at major retailers, while the Listeria risk in artisan dairy remained unresolved.…
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August 2026 saw a sustained and escalating food safety crisis in the UK — spanning allergen labelling failures, multi-supplier STEC and Listeria outbreaks, and intensifying food crime enforcement — wh…
Food Safety & Recalls
The final week of August 2026 was dominated by an expanding UK food safety recall situation, with STEC contamination spreading across wraps, salads, and sprouted seeds, and Listeria extending into art…
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Week 3 of August 2026 is defined by the emergence of major new international food standards from Codex CAC49 — including groundbreaking allergen labelling guidelines — while the UK's active pathogen r…
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Week 2 of August 2026 saw the UK's food safety recall profile shift from allergen labelling failures to active pathogen contamination (STEC and Listeria), while the FSA's National Food Crime Unit esca…
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Week of 3–9 August 2026 saw the UK FSA escalate from civil recalls to criminal enforcement with an illegal meat arrest, the FDA issue an Emergency Use Authorisation for a New World Screwworm drug ahea…
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The final week of July 2026 saw the UK's multi-hazard recall cluster expand to include antibiotic contamination in retail dairy, while USDA advanced New World screwworm biosecurity infrastructure and …
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July 2026 was defined by a sustained UK multi-hazard recall surge, two unresolved multi-country European Salmonella outbreaks, and a wave of landmark regulatory outputs — including Codex's first globa…
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The week of July 20–26, 2026 saw the UK's food recall cluster expand to include physical contamination alongside allergen mislabelling, EFSA tighten chemical contaminant standards with a new TFA safe …
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The week of 13–19 July 2026 saw the UK FSA's recall cluster expand with two new allergen mislabelling alerts, the European Commission publish an NGT implementation strategy, the FSA broaden PPDS aller…
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The week of July 6–12, 2026 saw landmark international allergen labelling standards adopted at CAC49, escalating UK food safety recalls including a Listeria alert on M&S Truffle Gouda, a new U.S. cros…
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The first week of July 2026 brought concurrent multi-country Salmonella outbreaks in Europe, the first-ever detection of HPAI H5N1 in Australia, and continued UK recall activity across pathogen, aller…
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The final week of June 2026 saw a surge in UK food safety recall activity spanning microbial, allergen, and physical hazards, while the EU published a new histamine controls report for seafood and the…
Food Safety & Recalls
Global food safety activity intensified in the week of June 19–26, 2026, with new UK FSA recalls for Listeria-contaminated French Brie and undeclared hazelnut allergens, EFSA's confirmation of health …
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Global food safety activity in mid-June 2026 is characterized by stable ongoing regulatory actions from WHO, FDA, UK FSA, and EU Commission, with no major new recalls or outbreaks emerging this period…
Food Safety & Recalls
This baseline report covers the current state of global food safety, encompassing WHO's updated foodborne disease burden estimates, FDA regulatory actions on food chemicals and infant formula, UK and …