Joined-up food safety

Farming and food ministries, and other national bodies, need to cooperate
more closely to make food safer, say the World Health Organization and the UN’s
Food and Agriculture Organization in a joint statement this week. At their first
pan-European conference on food safety, in Budapest, the agencies warned that
food-borne illness is rising in Europe, and called for international risk
assessments of the bacteria Listeria in convenience food,
Campylobacter and Salmonella in poultry, and Vibrio in
seafood.