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Food safety

August 2024

  • A Tesco store

    Tesco recalls ‘melt in the middle’ meat-free burgers due to burn risk

  • The recall includes more than 70 products – including liverwurst, ham, beef salami and bologna – made at the company’s plant in Jarratt, Virginia.

    Third person dies in listeria outbreak linked to Boar’s Head deli meats

July 2024

  • A cream and maroon logo for Boar's Head Virginia Ham

    Boar’s Head products recalled due to deadly listeria outbreak

  • Crushed chocolate bar pieces and cocoa on gray background

    Study finds heavy metals in many dark chocolate products in the US

  • Olive oil being poured on to a spoon

    Olive oil fraud and mislabelling cases hit record high in EU

  • Dietary supplements recalled in March 2024 by Japanese drugmaker Kobayashi Pharmaceutical. The products contain an ingredient called red yeast rice, or ‘beni koji’, which has been linked to deaths and kidney problems

    Head of Japan drugmaker to resign over dietary supplement potentially linked to 80 deaths

  • App that tracked fuel tankers in China used to transport cooking oil is disabled

  • Outrage in China over use of unwashed fuel tankers to transport cooking oil

June 2024

  • Woman looking at shelves of sandwiches in Tesco

    Tesco and Asda sued by customers over E coli sandwich infections

  • Packaged sandwiches on sale on shop shelves

    What is E coli and how should I avoid infection?

  • A BLT sandwich

    One person dead from E coli and 120 hospitalised, says UK Health Security Agency

  • An advertisement for Uncle Frog’s Mushroom Gummies

    Mushroom gummies recalled Australia-wide after customers hospitalised with ‘disturbing hallucinations’

  • Number hospitalised by E coli reaches 86 as UK lettuce outbreak grows

  • Third UK sandwich maker recalls product, saying it is a precaution

  • Supermarket sandwich suppliers issue recall amid UK E coli outbreak

  • UK supermarket sandwich recall: full list of products

  • ‘More E coli cases in UK likely’ amid environmental health staff shortage

  • UK outbreak of E coli likely to be linked to food, says health agency

  • The man who warned us about UPFs: Michael Pollan on his 25-year fight with the food industry

May 2024

  • Bottles of cleaning products on a kitchen counter with yellow toxic stickers on them

    What are PFAs? Everything you need to know about the ‘forever chemicals’ surrounding us every day

    Toxic chemicals have been found in everything from strawberries to waterproof clothing. Should we worry?
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