It’s Thursday, Nov. 13, 2025. Today’s top stories explore how new funding cuts could reshape national food safety priorities — and what that means for public health at home and abroad.
Emergency funding legislation for the federal government approved by the Senate includes provisions that will hamper food safety efforts already in motion — industry lobbyists have been working to halt those efforts.
More than half a dozen people have been infected by Listeria in Denmark since August.
Between Aug. 21 and Oct. 24, seven people infected with the same type of Listeria monocytogenes were registered at the Statens Serum Institut (SSI).
This year, many in Congress have been working on bills to reform the Generally Recognized As Safe (GRAS) protocols for food ingredients.
In the past week, this included Sen. Roger Marshall’s Better Food Disclosure Act (The Better FDA), to change the Food and Drug Administration’s oversight of ingredient disclosures and reviews.
An Australian charity has raised concerns about people unnecessarily washing raw chicken before cooking it.
The Food Safety Information Council released findings from a national study to mark Australian Food Safety Week which runs from Nov. 8 to 15. The poll conducted online in August included 1,221 people older than age of 18.
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Thanks for reading Food Safety News. We’ll keep following developments on federal food safety funding and the ongoing Listeria outbreak in Denmark as new details emerge. We’ll see you back here tomorrow with the latest on recalls, outbreaks, and food policy updates from around the world.
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