It's Friday, October 17, 2025. Today’s newsletter brings you critical food safety updates, from a new Salmonella outbreak under FDA investigation to risks posed by foods brought into Irish healthcare settings.
The Food and Drug Administration is investigating a new outbreak of foodborne illnesses.
The agency has not yet determined a cause of the Salmonella Richmond outbreak, which has sickened at least 11 people.
There are gaps in policy, communication and staff training related to foods given to people in healthcare settings in Ireland, according to a report.
The report, published by safefood, examined food safety risks linked to food brought into hospitals, residential care and nursing homes for vulnerable patients on the island of Ireland.
Rentokil is the world’s largest pest control company, operating in 90 countries worldwide. Its 2024 State of the Rodent Report is out. If you don’t like rats, this document is not comforting, and its findings are not good for food safety.
Two recent studies have highlighted the dangers of foodborne botulism from homemade food.
In the first, a family cluster of botulism in China was associated with the consumption of homemade fermented eggs.
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