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Food Safety News

Daily online newspaper dedicated to reporting on issues surrounding food safety.
By Dan Flynn and Suzanna Schreck

Post Frequency: 31.2/day

Last Entry: March 31, 2011 at 06:59:07

Publisher's Platform

Posted on September 05, 2010
Food Safety News to provide $25,000 scholarship for consumer advocacy.In less than two weeks (on Sept. 14), the House of Representatives Committee on Energy and Commerce, headed by Representatives Dingell (D-MI), Waxman (D-CA), and Stupak (D-MI), will hold what has become an annual event--yet another hearing on the failings of the food industry to provide consumers safe food...

Recalled Pork Skins Got To Market Without Inspection

Posted on September 04, 2010
No federal inspection means 2,070 pounds of cooked shredded pork skin products must be taken off the market. The meat got on the market "without the benefit of federal inspection," USDA's Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) said. Its personnel discovered the problem and an ongoing investigation could bring more regulatory action...

Bakersfield Restaurant Closed For Salmonella

Posted on September 04, 2010
Health officials have temporarily closed a restaurant in Bakersfield, Calif. after four people who ate there were diagnosed with Salmonella poisoning.Kern County Environmental Health inspectors said the four people patronized the Don Perico Mexican and seafood restaurant, at 4701 White Lane, during the same time period in the past two weeks...

Officials Warn of E. coli Outbreak in Michigan

Posted on September 04, 2010
Huron County, Michigan health officials warned this week that an E. coli outbreak may be underway. At least 5 people have become ill with E. coli infections, and the county health department is encouraging residents to take precautions to prevent additional illnesses...

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Wisconsin Salmonella Not Linked to Iowa Recall

Posted on September 04, 2010
About 30 people who attended a party in Vernon County, Wisconsin, in August were later sickened by Salmonella poisoning, and eggs are suspected in the outbreak. But the director of the Vernon County Health Department told the Lacrosse Tribune that the illnesses were not related to the recent massive recall of eggs from Wright County Egg and Hillandale Farms in Iowa...

Gulf Area Closed to Fishing Continues to Shrink

Posted on September 04, 2010
NOAA's National Marine Fisheries Service opened another 5,130 square miles of the Gulf of Mexico to fishing yesterday. The area opened back up to both commercial and recreational fishing are federal waters off the coasts of Florida, Alabama, and Mississippi...

More Known About Ammonia Leak at Poultry Plant

Posted on September 03, 2010
At least 130 people were sent to the emergency room after an ammonia leak at an Alabama chicken refrigeration plant that Food Safety News reported on last week. The plant is located on the Theodore Industrial Canal in Theodore, a port community near Mobile...

Whole Foods Recalls Raw Goat Milk Cheese

Posted on September 03, 2010
Whole Foods Thursday recalled Morningland Dairy and Ozark Hills Farm Raw Goat Milk Mild Cheddar Cheese for possible contamination with Listeria and Staphylococcus aureus. No illnesses have yet been associated with the recall. The contamination was discovered during routine regulatory sampling...

Isotopes Aid in Traceability

Posted on September 03, 2010
Did you or someone in your family buy Lucerne eggs? Could you easily discern from that package exactly where those eggs came from? When they were harvested? Where they were washed, shipped, transshipped, and sold? What if you could answer all of those questions on the Internet by punching in a code number found on the egg carton? Sounds implausible?Consumers already are demanding this type of transparency in their food supply...

CFIA Warns Public About Eating Kabul Farm Beef

Posted on September 03, 2010
The Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) is warning the public not to consume raw beef sold last August 6 by North York, Ontario-based Kabul Farms. The beef may be contaminated with E. coli O157:H7. All cuts of raw beef, including but not limited to tenderloin, beef chunks and ground beef, sold on Aug...

Dubai Cracks Down on Food Safety During Ramadan

Posted on September 03, 2010
Dubai Municipalitiy's Food Control Department issued nearly 200 fines to establishments caught breaking food safety regulations in early August, the month of Ramadan. The inspectors focused on outlets selling food in particular demand during the holy month...

Groups Hand-Deliver 180,000 Letters to FDA

Posted on September 03, 2010
U.S. Food and Drug Administration recently received more than 180,000 hand-delivered letters from citizens concerned about proposed FDA action on antibiotic use in animals. These concerned citizens represent people who see a connection between the use of antibiotics in animal agriculture and an increase in human resistance to the same life-saving drugs...

Advocates Turn Up the Heat on Food Safety Bill

Posted on September 03, 2010
Victims of foodborne illness will travel with their families to Washington, D.C. next week to again lobby for the pending Senate food safety bill. The broad coalition of interests backing the FDA Food Safety Modernization Act appear to have the wind at their backs with the massive egg recall sparking widespread attention to food safety issues...

Play It Safe With Hamburgers

Posted on September 03, 2010
MYTH: I don't need to use a thermometer when I'm cooking hamburgers. If the meat inside the burger is brown--not pink--it's safe to eat.FACT: According to USDA research conducted in 1998, one out of every four hamburgers turns brown before it's been cooked to the safe internal temperature of 160 degrees...

Federal Government Wants Michigan Dairy Shut Down

Posted on September 02, 2010
Michigan's Scenic View Dairy, with farms at Fennville, Freeport, and Gowen, should be shut down for selling cows for human consumption with antibiotic levels that exceed tolerable limits. So argues Adam B. Townshend, assistant U.S. Attorney, in a 25-page complaint filed Aug...

Rapid Egg Cooling Could Cut Risk

Posted on September 02, 2010
Kevin Keener, associate professor of Purdue University in Indiana, said the rapid cooling of eggs after laying and processing would "significantly reduce the ability of Salmonella to grow inside the egg and potentially keep consumers from becoming sick"...

Litigation Twist Removed, PCA Payments Ready

Posted on September 02, 2010
U.S. District Judge Norman K. Moon Wednesday removed the final obstacle blocking settlements for victims of the infamous Peanut Corporation of America Salmonella outbreak that resulted in nine deaths and 714 confirmed infections in 46 states in late 2008 and early 2009...

CA Rejects BPA Ban for Baby Bottles, Sippy Cups

Posted on September 02, 2010
The California Senate defeated a bill Tuesday that would have banned the use of bisphenol-A, or BPA, in baby bottles, sippy cups, and infant formula packaging intended for use by children 3 and younger. State Democratic Senator Fran Pavley, sponsor of SB797, believes scientific studies prove the chemical can harm the development of young children...

USDA Sticks a Hoe into the Sugar Beet Issue

Posted on September 02, 2010
Caught since Aug. 13 between a federal judge and some inept inaction by the Agriculture Department, sugar beet growers with about one million acres in a dozen states have been wondering what's going to be the next thing to happen to them. Against predictions that sugar prices will be going up next year, raising all sorts of food prices, USDA's Animal and Plant Inspection Service (APHIS) Wednesday announced steps it will be taking to allow growers to continue to plant Roundup Ready sugar beets...

Federal Egg Recall Investigation Widens

Posted on September 02, 2010
Federal officials are widening their investigation of two Iowa farms at the center of a large-scale egg recall and multistate Salmonella outbreak. The criminal division of the Food and Drug Administration and the Department of Justice have become involved in the effort, according to FDA Commissioner Dr...

Food Scandals Prompt Organic Growth in China

Posted on September 01, 2010
Food safety scandals have helped propel rapid growth in the the organic food sector of China's economy, according to the Telegraph."Interest has been promoted by a series of scares including toxic beans, contaminated milk and pork, pesticide-laced dumplings, chemically-tainted chicken, and the growing presence of what is known as 'sewage oil,'" the paper reported Monday...

Grape Gummy Candy Recalled for Lead

Posted on September 01, 2010
The California Department of Public Health (CDPH) warned consumers this week to discard any Cocon Grape Gummy 100% candy imported from Malaysia after testing revealed high levels of lead in the candy. According to a health department press release, the Cocon Grape Gummy Candy has been recalled by U-Can Food Trading in Los Angeles...

Nevada Mobile Slaughter Unit Info Session Planned

Posted on September 01, 2010
The Agriculture Department announced this week that its Food Safety and Inspection Service will host a red meat mobile slaughter unit information session Sept. 9. The information session, which is part of USDA's "Know Your Farmer, Know Your Food" initiative, is designed to educate farmers, ranchers, and processors about operating mobile slaughter units and meeting federal food safety requirements...

Making School Food Healthier

Posted on September 01, 2010
Some kids have already started attending classes, and most will be back in school after Labor Day. Many parents may justifiably be wondering about recent efforts to improve the quality of the food served to their children in these schools.According to an Institute of Medicine Report released in October 2009, school-age children eat too many discretionary calories, too few fruits and vegetables--particularly dark green and dark orange fruits and vegetables, too few whole grains and low-fat dairy products, and too many solid fats and sugars...

Egg Co. Faces Another Lawsuit

Posted on September 01, 2010
Quality Egg, which does business under the name Wright County Egg, faces a fourth lawsuit brought on behalf of a Salmonella outbreak victim by the Seattle law firm Marler Clark. The lawsuit was filed against the egg producer yesterday in Federal District Court in Iowa...

'Fire them all,' Says R-CALF Chief

Posted on September 01, 2010
In 1892, disagreements among cattlemen about the use of the open range led to shootings, lynchings, and an open, armed conflict that came to be known as the Johnson County War. It's 118 years later, and disagreements among cattlemen over possible intervention by the federal government in markets and contracts is being played out in the new media with a war of words...

Russian Poultry Dispute Complicated by Egg Fiasco

Posted on September 01, 2010
The headline-grabbing recall of over half a billion eggs for Salmonella contamination in the U.S. is complicating the ongoing dispute with Russia over the acceptance of U.S. poultry products."In light of reports in the U.S. media of an outbreak of Salmonella caused by contaminated eggs, we are assessing the situation to find out if there is a need to toughen [regulations on] poultry imports from the United States," Gennady Onishchenko, head of the Russian Federal Service for Consumer Rights and Human Welfare Protection, told Russian media last week...

Perdue Scientist Develops Fast, Smart E. coli Test

Posted on September 01, 2010
Somebody may need to send a memo to J. Patrick Boyle at the American Meat Institute. That rapid analytical test for non-O157: H7 Shiga toxin-producing E. coli (STEC) that AMI said just a couple of weeks ago was not available may now be available...

HBO's 'Temple Grandin' Takes Home Seven Emmys

Posted on August 31, 2010
Sunday night, "Temple Grandin", the HBO movie chronicling the animal welfare expert's life, won 5 Emmy awards. Grandin, arguably the world's most well-known autistic person, is a New York Times best-selling author, a professor of animal science, a consultant to the leading food companies, and a noted speaker on animal behavior and autism...

EFSA Releases Study on PCBs in Food, Feed

Posted on August 31, 2010
Polychlorinated biphenyls, or PCBs, are a widespread class of persistent organic chemicals that accumulate in the environment and humans and are associated with a broad spectrum of health effects. PCBs were widely used as dielectric fluids in transformers, capacitors, and coolants...

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