Foodborne disease
Moving into your own accommodation for university is exciting. Keeping on top of your food hygiene might not be top of mind for many students but it might make the difference between spending your Friday night alone feeling poorly or out with your new uni mates. These tips will keep you safe at uni.
Marking one year since PATH‑SAFE concluded, Dr Charlotte Smith, Scientific Project Manager at the FSA, explores the programme’s achievements, impact and the way its legacy is shaping the Food Surveillance Programme.
Cymraeg The third study of infectious intestinal disease (IID3) aims to quantify the rates of infection reported across primary care and NHS 111/NHS 24 call services and quantify the level of underreporting in order to make new estimates of the …
Cymraeg What is the global interest in studies into Infectious Intestinal Disease (IID) burden? I aimed to answer this by examining the use of IID1 and IID2 study reports, and related work, and visualise the findings using a dynamic application …
Thanks to the use of patient- and practice-facing technology, this study has succeeded in achieving large scale, rapid population level recruitment into research about diarrhoeal illness and possible food poisoning in the community.
At the end of February, the Pathogen Surveillance in Agriculture Food and Environment (PATH-SAFE) team hosted a two-day conference to facilitate knowledge exchange within the biosurveillance community, by showcasing the innovative work that has been undertaken within the PATH-SAFE programme, and other related biosurveillance programmes.
One of the Food Standards Agency's ongoing commitments to food safety is surveillance. As part of this, we actively monitor the levels of infectious intestinal disease (IID) in the UK. While we regularly review the number of confirmed IID cases, not all cases that occur in the UK population will be recorded by public health …
To mark World Antimicrobial Awareness Week 2022 , here's the latest on our Pathogen Surveillance in Agriculture, Food and the Environment programme.
FSA Chief Executive Emily Miles discusses Morrison's recent news on using best before dates on some of its milk products.
To mark the end of World Antibiotic Awareness Week, Eva Scholtus and Emily Parr from the Microbiology Society discuss our collaborative workshop series as part of the Pathogen Surveillance in Agriculture, Food and the Environment (PATH-SAFE) programme.
