EFSA was requested to provide recommendations to the European Commission on the sampling strategies and established microbiological methods most appropriate for maximising the sensitivity of detection of L. monocytogenes in processing water and the enviro ...
An outbreak of invasive Listeria monocytogenes (L. monocytogenes) infections confirmed by whole-genome sequencing (WGS) and linked to frozen corn and possibly to other frozen vegetables has been ongoing in five EU Member States (Austria, Denmark, Finland, ...
Whole Genome Sequencing (WGS) is becoming increasingly used in public health and food safety laboratories. To date, there is a wide variation in the level of implementation of WGS among laboratories from different sectors in different countries, the type ...
An outbreak of invasive Listeria monocytogenes (L. monocytogenes) infections defined by whole-genome sequencing (WGS) and probably linked to frozen corn has been ongoing in five EU Member States (Austria, Denmark, Finland, Sweden and the United Kingdom) s ...
The data on antimicrobial resistance in zoonotic and indicator bacteria in 2016, submitted by 28 EU Member States (MSs), were jointly analysed by the EFSA and ECDC. Resistance in bacterial isolates of zoonotic Salmonella and Campylobacter from humans, ani ...
This reporting manual provides guidance to Member States (MSs) for reporting on zoonoses and zoonotic agents in animals, food and feed under the framework of Directive 2003/99/EC and also on the reporting of other pathogenic microbiological agents in food ...
The European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) is tasked with coordinating the reporting of zoonoses, zoonotic agents, animal populations, antimicrobial resistance and food-borne outbreaks in the European Union (EU) under Directive 2003/99/EC, as well as analy ...
This manual provides guidance for reporting antimicrobial resistance under the framework of Directive 2003/99/EC and Commission Implementing Decision 2013/652/EU in food-producing animals and foodstuffs derived thereof. The objective is to harmonise and s ...
This technical report of the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) presents guidance to reporting European Union (EU) Member States (MSs) and non-Member States in data submission using extensible markup language (XML) data transfer covering the reporting ...
The European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) carried out a public consultation to receive input from the scientific community and all interested parties on the draft Scientific Opinion on Listeria monocytogenes contamination of ready-to-eat (RTE) foods and t ...