OPINION — By Darin Detwiler

“Food recalls are not just bureaucratic corrections; they are shocks to the system, forcing us to question the safety of what we feed our families.”

What to know: A Salmonella outbreak linked to food served in hospitals in Gran Canaria has affected 17 people.

The Ministry of Health reported that nine patients were being treated at Gran Canaria University Hospital and eight at the Hospital Juan Carlos I. Gran Canaria is one of the Canary Islands. 

Your procedures are perfect, your audits are clean… so why do you still worry about that next phone call?

Campbell Mitchell, Head of Food Safety at Kraft Heinz, has led food safety across five continents for three decades. On September 18th, he's sharing why compliance gets you to the starting line, but culture wins the race.

This free webinar will show you proven methods that make food safety second nature, not a daily battle.

Public Health Wales has advised farmers holding lamb-feeding events to limit offering close contact with animals.

The advice was issued after a report on a large Cryptosporidium outbreak among people who went to a farm in Wales in spring 2024 for lamb-feeding events, where visitors were encouraged to hold and cuddle lambs.

When Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins said on Aug. 15 that the New World screwworm had not been reported or detected in the United States “in animals,” she failed to mention that the maggot that burrows into the flesh of living organisms had already been confirmed in a Maryland man on Aug. 4.