A multi‐country outbreak of Salmonella Agona (S. Agona) is under investigation in the European Union (EU). Overall, 147 cases were reported by five EU countries: 122 cases since 01/01/2017, and 25 historical cases between 2014 and 2016. The United Kingdom ...
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 ...
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 qualified presumption of safety (QPS) concept was developed to provide a harmonised generic pre-evaluation to support safety risk assessments of biological agents performed by EFSA's scientific Panels. The identity, body of knowledge, safety conc ...