VIRUS TERBARU DAN SANGAT MERBAHAYA

Food Incident?

Incidents

The Agency leads on the Government response to food incidents. It provides advice on how to report, respond to and prevent an incident, as well as carrying out monitoring and planning work.

• What is a food incident?
• Emergency planning
• Marine oil and chemical spills

                 What is a food incident?

A food incident is where concerns about actual or suspected threats to the safety or quality of food require intervention to protect consumers. Incidents fall broadly into two categories:

• contamination of food or animal feed in processing, distribution, retail and catering, resulting in action to withdraw the food from sale or recall it from the public
• environmental pollution incidents such as fires, chemical/oil spills and radiation leaks, which may involve voluntary or statutory action (e.g. orders made under the Food and Environment Protection Act 1985)

Preventing incidents is important for protecting consumers' interests, ensuring food standards and safety, and maintaining trust in the food chain. As part of its incident prevention strategy, the Agency monitors food and feed safety patterns across the UK and provides guidance and workshops to industry.

Emergency planning

The ability to anticipate new threats and ensure we are prepared to react quickly to existing threats to food safety, the Agency prepares contingency plans for food safety emergencies and carries out emergency exercise to test these and to also test its incident response protocol.

Emergency exercises and include participants from other government departments such as the Department of Health and Public Health England as well as local authorities, small and medium-sized enterprises, and major retailers. The exercises are independently assessed ensuring that the Agency’s protocols are kept up-to-date, widely recognised by its partners and constantly improving.

Details of the most recent exercise, carried out in 2012, can be found below.

The Agency also provides advice on food safety issues to support to the Environment Agency-led Air Quality in Major Incidents project and other exercises including the nuclear industry and other government departments.

Marine oil and chemical spills

Chemical and oil spills can have a detrimental effect on fish and shellfish destined for the food chain. The cross-government Premiam project (also known as 'Pollution Response in Emergencies: Marine Impact Assessment and Monitoring') aims to ensure a more integrated and robust approach to monitoring chemical and oil spills in the marine and coastal environment.
For more information about the project, visit the Premiam website

Related Items

• Exercise Larkspur: final report (pdf 1MB) Read the March 2012 report
• Exercise Larkspur: FSA response to recommendations in final report (pdf 269KB) Read the FSA response
• Principles for preventing and responding to food incidents - Taskforce Factsheet (pdf 48KB)

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• Report an incident

  Businesses are legally required to inform their local authority/port health authority and the Food Standards Agency if there is reason to believe that food or feed is not compliant with food or feed safety requirements. The authorities will advise you of any action you might need to take.
  

Third FSA update on testing of beef products for horse DNA

The FSA has received the third set of test results from the food industry, which has been checking for the presence of horse DNA in products that are labelled as beef.

Food industry testing

Overall, including the previous weeks’ testing, the Agency has received 5430 test results. This figure includes the 1797 results we are publishing today. The updated information from the food industry's own tests is as follows:

• As in previous weeks, the vast majority (over 99%) of tests continue to show no horse DNA at or above the level of 1%.
• Today’s results show that four further products have been confirmed as containing horse DNA, since the previous set of industry results was announced last week. These four products are covered by 10 test results that show horse DNA at or above the 1% threshold. These products are named in the attached report (see Table 2) and have been withdrawn from sale.
• There are now 17 products confirmed as containing over 1% of horse DNA, which have been identified through the industry tests (Table 2). A further two products have been identified through separate tests (Table 3).
• To date, no tests of products containing horse DNA have found the veterinary medicine phenylbutazone (bute). Detailed information, along with advice for consumers, can be found here: consumer advice.

The FSA focus continues to be on gross contamination of beef products with horse meat, that is, where there is more than 1% horse DNA detected in a product. The Agency believes that such levels of horse DNA indicate either gross negligence or deliberate substitution of one meat for another.
Results have now been received from a range of manufacturers, retailers, caterers, restaurants and wholesalers throughout the UK. The initial phase of testing by industry is almost complete.
There have been, and continue to be, occasions where businesses have withdrawn products due to trace contamination levels, or on a precautionary basis; for example, where they have been produced by manufacturers that have supplied other products found to be contaminated with horse DNA. Where further information relating to these withdrawals has been provided to the FSA, it has been included in the report.

Additional test results

These results show where horse DNA was detected above the 1% threshold by industry outside of the formal testing programme, or through other testing and investigations by the Agency and by local authorities. Details of these products are also available in the report attached below (see Table 3).

Future reporting arrangements

Most of the food industry’s initial tests for contamination of beef products with horse DNA are now complete. Industry will continue to test for the presence of horse DNA in its beef products, reporting to the FSA, and these tests will now be published at quarterly intervals.
However, food businesses will continue to report any confirmed cases of gross contamination, that is, above 1% horse DNA, to the FSA immediately. These figures will, in turn, be published on the FSA website as soon as the information is received.
Next week, the FSA will publish the first wave of data from the UK-wide sampling programme being carried out by local authorities on behalf of the Agency. This work is intended to verify information from the food industry and help improve the picture of the scale of beef contamination in the UK

Advice for consumers

The Agency is currently investigating how a number of beef products sold in the UK came to contain horse DNA. As part of the investigation, we have ordered food businesses to test their beef products. Whenever horse meat has been found at levels above 1%, we have insisted that it be tested for the drug phenylbutazone (bute). All results so far for bute have come back negative.

Throughout this incident we have continued to put consumer interests first. That means that we provide the name of the retailer, restaurant or catering supplier where contamination has been identified so that the public know if they've been affected and can take action if they still have an affected product.

While we also ask the named business to give us information on any suppliers and manufacturers they use, so that we can then trace back to where a problem occurred, we do not publish this information as it may hinder the enquiry and our ability to identify how the problem occurred.

Below is a list of products that have been found to contain horse meat above the 1% level. In all these cases the affected product has either never been put on sale or was withdrawn from sale once horse meat was detected. That means that the affected products are no longer on sale in a shop, or being served in a canteen or restaurant.

Some of the companies listed have advised us that they have since sourced meat from a new supplier, and that where these products are being sold now, they have been tested and do not contain horse meat.

If however, you still have one of these products bought previously in your freezer and are concerned about eating horse meat, you may wish to contact the shop where you bought it.

In the table below, we have also indicated the progress of testing for bute. Further information on bute can be found below the table. Our advice is not to eat a product if the bute testing is still in progress.

Products found to contain horse meat above 1%

The table will be updated as results come in.

Test results at 27 March 2013

Company	Products that tested positive for horse DNA	Bute test status	Bute test results
Aldi	Today's special frozen beef lasagne	Completed	Negative
	Today's special frozen spaghetti bolognese	Completed	Negative
Asda	Chilled Beef Bolognese Sauce	Completed	Negative
	Lean Beef Mince, 454g (frozen)	Completed	Negative
	Smart price Corned Beef 340g	In progress	Awaiting results
	Chosen by You corned beef 340g	In progress	Awaiting results
Bird's eye	Traditional Spaghetti Bolognese	Completed	Negative
	Beef lasagne	Completed	Negative
Brakes	Brakes spicy minced beef skewer	Completed	Negative
The Co-operative	Frozen: 4 Beef Quarter Pounder Burgers	Completed	Negative
Findus	Findus Beef Lasagne, 320g, 360g, 500g	Completed	Negative
Hungarian Food Ltd	Kockázott Marhaús, 1.010kg (frozen diced beef)	In progress	Awaiting results
IKEA	Frozen Swedish Food Market Meatballs	Completed	Negative
Makro	Frozen MQ 100% Aberdeen Angus Beef Burgers 12 6oz	Completed	Negative
Oak Farm Foods	Oak Farm Cottage Pie	In progress	Awaiting results
Rangeland	Range of burger products	Completed	Negative
Sodexo	Beef burgers Minced beef Halal minced beef	Completed	Negative
Taco Bell	Ground beef	Completed	Negative
Tesco	Everyday Value Frozen Burgers	Completed	Negative
	Everyday Value Spaghetti Bolognaise	Completed	Negative
	Tesco Simply Roast Meatloaf, 600g	Completed	Negative
Whitbread Group PLC	Lasagne product Beef burger product	Completed	Negative

This table had previously included a reference to a range of beef products from The Burger Manufacturing Company (BMC), after initial tests indicated that the products contained horse DNA to a 1% Limit of Detection. However, subsequent tests confirmed the presence of horse DNA at levels below the 1% threshold for reporting, so the products have been removed from the list.

More about bute

Bute was banned from most medical uses in humans after it was found that about 1 person in 30,000 recipients suffered a serious side effect. Of the bute levels reported in previous FSA testing of contaminated meat, the maximum level we found would have to be multiplied 1,000 times to be at the same level as that which used to be given to humans. This suggests that even if you have eaten products that contain horse meat contaminated with bute, the risk of damage to your health is very low

Salmonella Scare Prompts Easter Candy Recall

Zachary Confections has recalled cartons of chocolate-covered marshmallow eggs. (Image credit: Zachary Confections)

An Indiana candymaker has recalled packages of its chocolate-covered marshmallow eggs, which may contain salmonella.
Zachary Confections announced the voluntary recall of the Easter treats Wednesday after a sample taken during routine testing revealed “the potential for salmonella contamination,” according to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.
Salmonella is a bacterium that can cause serious and sometimes deadly infections in the very young and the very old, as well as in people who have weakened immune systems, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The foodborne bacterium kills roughly 400 Americans each year, the agency says.
Even healthy adults exposed to salmonella risk fever, pain, diarrhea, nausea and vomiting. In rare instances the organism can invade the bloodstream, leading to infections of the heart and arteries, as well as arthritis.
The recall covers 5-ounce packages of the Easter sweets that are sold in white egg crates with purple, green and yellow lettering, carry the product number 31-797 and the best buy date of Feb. 14, 2014. The packages were shipped from the Frankfort, Ind., factory Feb. 21 and 22, and have been distributed to stores in Iowa, Minnesota, North Dakota, South Dakota and Wisconsin, according to the FDA.
Zachary Confections has not received reports of illness linked to its products, according to the FDA but has suspended production while it investigates the potential contamination.
“We are dedicated to manufacturing wholesome products for our customers,” George Anichini, vice president of operations for Zachary Confections, said in a statement. “Consistent with that dedication, we are taking this voluntary action.”
The FDA recommends that consumers who purchased the recalled products destroy them or return them to the store. Click here for more information about the recall

Cantaloupes Blamed for 141 Salmonella Cases, Including Two Deaths

 Health officials have learned that cantaloupes are to blame for a salmonella outbreak that has infected 141 people in 20 states, sending 31 people to the hospital and killing two.
More than a third of those salmonella Typhimurium cases happened in Kentucky, which is also where both deaths occurred, according to the Centers for Disease Control. The bad melons came from a farm in southwestern Indiana, according to the CDC, which cites an investigation by federal, state, and local agencies. Officials interviewed 24 ill patients, and discovered that 18 ate cantaloupes prior to becoming ill.

Health officials have learned that cantaloupes are to blame for a salmonella outbreak that has infected 141 people in 20 states, sending 31 people to the hospital and killing two.

They then found the bacteria in two cantaloupes purchased at a grocery stores.
Cantaloupes often bear a sticker that says where they were grown, so health officials have advised consumers to check the sticker and throw away melons from Indiana.
"If no sticker is present, consumers should inquire about the source," a CDC page devoted to the outbreak says. "When in doubt, throw it out."
Symptoms of salmonella include diarrhea, vomiting and cramps, which develop between 12 and 72 hours of infection.
The illness usually runs four to seven days, unless the person is hospitalized with a severe case.
The infection originates in the intestine, but it can spread to the blood stream and other parts of the body, which can lead to death without proper treatment

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