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News on food safety topics
Here you will find selected food safety notifications from the online portals of the food safety authorities of the EU Member States. The respective authors are responsible for the original texts of the machine-translated content. The links to the original texts can be found under each notification.
Latest news from the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA)
Carbapenem resistance in the food chain
Carbapenemase-producing bacteria, once mainly a hospital concern, are now being detected in food animals and food products across Europe. This is one of the findings of EFSA’s latest scientific opinion on the occurrence and spread of carbapenemase-producing Enterobacterales (CPE) in the food chain in the EU/EFTA.
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Latest news from Germany (German Federal Institute for Risk Assessment, BfR)
Caffeine kick with health risks
New episode of the BfR science podcast ‘Risk’
Caffeine is almost ubiquitous in everyday life. It is found in the typical morning cup of coffee, in black tea, in cola, in energy drinks and even in chocolate. "In moderate amounts, caffeine has a stimulating, positive effect," explains biologist Dr Anke Ehlers in the new episode of ‘Risk’ – the science podcast from the German Federal Institute for Risk Assessment (BfR). In high doses, however, caffeine can cause sweating, anxiety and heart rhythm disorders, as well as affect the growth of the foetus in the mother's womb. In extreme cases, severe overdoses from food supplements can even be fatal.
Click here for the original text (external link)Latest news from France (French Agency for food, environmental and occupational health safety, ANSES)
The temperature of Europeans' fridges studied to better protect consumers
Scientists from the ANSES Food Safety Laboratory have reviewed the reference temperature for calculating the use-by dates of refrigerated ready-to-eat foods. This takes account of the temperatures actually observed in private refrigerators in 16 European countries. It has been defined to prevent food-borne infections caused by pathogenic bacteria such as Listeria monocytogenes.
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