| | By Joe Whitworth on Sep 23, 2018 12:04 am An audit of the control system in Thailand on poultry meat for export to Europe has found it has got worse in some areas since the last inspection in 2013. Auditors from the Directorate-General Health and Food Safety (DG SANTE) visited one laboratory, five slaughterhouses and cutting plants and three meat preparation sites from Jan.,... Continue Reading By Dan Flynn on Sep 23, 2018 12:02 am Every year at about this time–after it appears highly unlikely that our Colorado Rockies will take the National League West–I begin thinking about what type of year the rest of us having. Worldwide the year’s top story is very likely to be South Africa’s worst in the world listeriosis outbreak with 1,060 laboratory-confirmed cases of... Continue Reading By Joe Whitworth on Sep 22, 2018 01:41 pm Two-thirds of 30 European countries were routinely using whole genome sequencing in 2017 for national surveillance of at least one human pathogen, according to a survey. This figure is up from 16 countries in 2016 and none in 2013. A European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) report found 29 of the 30 countries... Continue Reading | | | | | |