Sunday Edition: Chicken Plague | food safety news

Quick bites around the food safety sector

1. The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is continuing its investigation. Outbreak of Salmonella Newport infections that has infected at least 68 people. But the FDA has not yet reported which foods it is tracking or testing for, nor has it reported the ages or locations of those affected. The number of people affected is up from 38 when the FDA first reported the outbreak.
   Even the FDA Key information about the Salmonella Saintpaul outbreak linked to mangoes has not been released.. Information about the states involved, the names of the mango importers, the countries where the fruit was grown and the names of all companies involved in the outbreak were compiled from the report on the 2025 incident. 56 people were affected.
2. test Escherichia coli, Listeria, Campylobacter, and Yersinia have been detected in raw milk sold from Swiss farms.. The results come from samples from milk vending machines across Switzerland. European countries have implemented control measures designed to encourage regular hygiene and quality standards for raw milk at bulk tank level, and raw milk cannot be advertised or offered for direct consumption. Vending machines allow farms to sell unpasteurized raw milk directly to consumers, but they place the burden on buyers to follow safe handling guidelines.
3. Scientists are exploring ways to minimize the risk of exposure to biogenic amines in the diet provided to children. Amines, including histamine and tyramine, are common in foods, but their concentrations increase as sanitary quality deteriorates. Eleven outbreaks in Spanish nurseries in 2023 and 2024 were linked to the presence of biogenic amines in chicken. Served the children. The Scientific Committee of the Spanish Agency for Food Safety and Nutrition has published recommendations to reduce microbial contamination of chicken carcasses during processing and storage.
4. With unusually fast rotation, USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) has withdrawn its public health alert. It was published less than a week later. This warning indicates that Walmart’s great fully cooked dinosaur-shaped chicken breast nuggets have a high lead content. Subsequent testing at the producer’s facility did not find elevated levels of lead in the product. The initial results were due to false positives due to sporadic lead contamination in the laboratory.

Today’s topic: Chicken plague
The United States is now entering its fifth year of defense against the avian influenza outbreak, which poses the greatest threat to global animal health and food security. It also became the costliest avian influenza response in U.S. history.

And the offense is still winning.

Highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI), commonly known as avian flu, is a disease caused by a virus that primarily affects birds but can also affect mammals, including humans.