Purpose: Students living in university residence halls often have refrigerators for food storage, and are often living alone and handling food for the first time in their lives. Therefore, an investigation of their safe food storage practices is important to help prevent food-borne illness in this...

Paneer is a fresh, soft, unripened cheese, falls under the category of ready to eat product. From 2010 to 2015, because of consumption of soft cheese, several multistate outbreaks of Listeria monocytogenes happened in the USA. In the meantime, recalls of soft cheese happened in Australia and Canada ...

Objective: Whole genome sequencing and analysis was conducted on a Burkholderia gladiolus pv. cocovenenans strain, isolated from raw corn flour sample which caused family agglutinative bongkrekic acid poisoning. The genetic characteristics of its virulence and pathogenicity were analyzed as well....

Paenibacillus species are important spoilage organisms in the dairy industry. The genomes of five Paenibacillus species which were isolated from dairy products in Canada were sequenced using the Illumina MiSeq platform. Draft genomes ranging from 5.1 to 7.1 Mb with GC contents of 49 to 53% were...

Food handlers can put the public's health at risk if they lack food safety knowledge. From March to June of 2015, 197 Canadian TrainCan Inc. foodhandler certification students participated in a food safety survey to assess their knowledge at 1, 3 or 5 years post food handler certification....

Ensuring the chemical, physical, and microbial safety of food and ingredients underpins the international trade of food items and is integral to building consumer confidence. Achieving this requires effective systems to support the safety of food across the supply chain. Differing risk-assessment...

Heavy metals are important risk factors affecting infants and young children's food safety, which is also the focus of food safety concerns of various countries and organizations. Formulation of strict limit standards is the important measure to control such risks. This article analyzes the status...

In an investigation of a listeriosis outbreak in Ontario, Canada, during November 2015-June 2016, pasteurized chocolate milk was identified as the source. Because listeriosis outbreaks associated with pasteurized milk are rare in North America, these findings highlight that dairy products can be...

Canadian food safety governance has consistently been ranked in the top tier globally, and therefore the analysis of Canadian food safety surveillance programs is significantly important to facilitate China's modernized food safety governance. The Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) promulgates...