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Italy: food safety news
This page brings together the 5 food safety stories for the selected market (Italy) that the TAAG editorial team published between Sep 28, 2026 and Oct 21, 2026: product recalls, alerts, outbreaks, regulatory changes and official controls. By type of story: Product Recall (3), Health Alert (1), and Enforcement (1). Most cited pathogens and toxins: E. coli STEC (2), Salmonella (2), and Listeria (1).
Every story can be read in full on TAAG Insights, with its publication date, country and cited original source and, where relevant, the related laboratory analysis. The list runs from newest to oldest. At the bottom of the page you will find the other pathogens, countries and story types on TAAG Insights to keep exploring.
5 stories, newest first
MicrobiologyHealth Alert · Italy
Italy Notifies Salmonella Typhimurium at a Laying Hen Farm and Recalls Organic Eggs Distributed in Four Other Countries
RASFF validated on October 21 an alert from Italy over Salmonella Typhimurium at a laying hen farm. Italy withdrew from the market and recalled from consumers loose organic eggs with expiry dates from October 26 to November 11, also distributed in France, Germany, Monaco and San Marino.
· 4 min
Industry & regulationEnforcement · Italy
Italy Rejects Three Shipments of Frozen Poultry Meat From Brazil at the Border Over Salmonella Minnesota and Salmonella Drogana
Italy notified RASFF on October 19 of the border rejection of three shipments of frozen poultry meat from Brazil, of 25,200 kilos each, held at the Genoa border control post: two had Salmonella Minnesota and one, Salmonella Drogana.
· 4 min
MicrobiologyProduct Recall · Italy
Italy Recalls a Packaged Vitello Tonnato Over Listeria monocytogenes
Italy's Ministry of Health published on October 12 the recall of a 180-gram vitello tonnato, a cold veal dish with tuna sauce, over the presence of Listeria monocytogenes.
· 4 min
MicrobiologyProduct Recall · Italy
Italy Recalls a Valtellina Casera PDO Cheese Over Shiga Toxin-Producing Escherichia coli and Publishes Another Microbiological Recall on October 9
Italy's Ministry of Health published on October 9 the recall of a Valtellina Casera PDO cheese, sold unbranded, over the presence of Shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli (STEC), and the same day another recall for microbiological risk of a traditional cured sausage from Basilicata.
· 4 min
MicrobiologyProduct Recall · Italy
Italy Recalls a Raw Goat's Milk Roccaverano PDO Cheese Over STEC E. coli with the eae Gene
On September 28, Italy's Ministry of Health published the recall, for microbiological risk, of one lot of 250-gram Roccaverano PDO cheese made in Piedmont, due to the presence of STEC E. coli carrying the eae gene.
· 3 min