SEOUL, Aug. 30 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea saw a decline in overall food poisoning cases last year, but salmonella-related infections bucked the trend, highlighting lingering vulnerabilities in hygiene management, government data show. According to the Ministry of Food and Drug Safety (MFDS), there were 265 outbreaks of foodborne illness in 2024, sickening 7,624 people [...]
SUWON, Aug. 31 (Korea Bizwire) — Over 130 people have lodged a damages suit against a restaurant franchise that sells “gimbap,” or seaweed rice rolls with vegetables, over food poisoning. Park Young-saeng, an attorney at Jungjin law firm, said Tuesday that he filed a damages suit the previous day with the Suwon District Court in [...]
SEOUL, May 19 (Korea Bizwire) — Food poisoning bacteria have been found in some kimchi products imported from China, South Korea’s drug safety agency said Tuesday. The Ministry of Food and Drug Safety performed an inspection on the process of customs clearance and distribution of imported foods over the past two months starting from March. [...]
DAEJEON, March 30 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean researchers have developed a new technology that can detect food poisoning bacteria in real time using a semiconductor processing technology. The National Nanofab Center announced on Monday that it had developed technology to detect food poisoning bacteria using a nano structural body that was formed using the [...]
SEOUL, March 5 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s drug safety agency said Thursday that the number of food poisoning cases in South Korea declined sharply last year, falling to about a half of the annual average for the previous five years, with the number of food poisoning patients more than halving. The number of food [...]
ANSAN, June 28 (Korea Bizwire) — The number of people infected with a strain of E. coli bacteria rose to 57 south of Seoul, while the source of the bacteria is still unknown, health authorities said Saturday. Health authorities have widened a probe into the E. coli outbreak in the city of Ansan, about 50 [...]
ANSAN/SUWON, June 25 (Korea Bizwire) — One hundred students and teachers at a kindergarten in Ansan, just south of Seoul, have complained of food poisoning symptoms over the past week, with about one third of them hospitalized for hamburger disease and other disorders, municipal health officials said Thursday. According to the officials in Ansan, about [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 22 (Korea Bizwire) – The record-breaking heat wave that continues to beset the Korean Peninsula is triggering health concerns, with citizens succumbing to a number of medical conditions brought on by the oppressive heat. According to the Korea Centers for Disease Control & Prevention (KCDC) on Sunday, 1,949 individuals have suffered from heat-related [...]