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Food Safety News

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

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

Peppermint Organic Herbal Tea Recall Expands

Posted on March 09, 2011
Another retailer has recalled peppermint organic tea produced by a Washington state company because it may be contaminated with Salmonella.In an expansion of a recall first announced Monday, Seattle-based RemedyTeas said Tuesday it was recalling 20 pounds of Peppermint Organic Herbal Tea produced by one of its vendors, Aromatics Inc...

Recall: Possible Salmonella in Pig Ear Pet Chews

Posted on March 09, 2011
An Illinois company has recalled 2,705 boxes of pig ear pet chews because they may be contaminated with Salmonella.Jones Natural Chews Co. of Rockford announced Tuesday that it is recalling the pig ears, which were shipped to distributors and retailers in 18 states between Sept...

Korean-Owned StarKist Tuna Says 'No' To FDA

Posted on March 09, 2011
After crossing 3,400 miles of the Pacific Ocean last year to inspect a tuna cannery on American Samoa, a U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) inspector asked for copies of some records from the StarKist Co."Charlie the Tuna," the company's half-century old cartoon character, might have shown the man some "good taste," but nobody from StarKist Co...

Hazelnuts Confirmed as Outbreak Source

Posted on March 09, 2011
In-shell hazelnuts taken from the home of a case patient infected with E. coli tested positive for the bacteria, a genetic match to a strain that sickened that person and six others, Minnesota Department of Health officials confirmed Tuesday.But while the positive sample now proves hazelnuts were responsible for a three-state outbreak of E...

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Nuts! How to Crack an E. coli Case

Posted on March 09, 2011
Seven sick people, most of them middle-aged men, scattered across three states. As epidemiology goes, that's not much to go on.To track outbreaks of foodborne illness, the "epi" sleuths usually need numerous sick people, preferably concentrated in one or two areas...

Banned Milk Replacers Still Used at PA Dairy Farm

Posted on March 08, 2011
Two Pennsylvania dairy farms were found selling bob veal calves for slaughter with higher than allowed levels of specific animal antibiotics in their edible tissues.In Feb. 15 warning letters to the Lloyd B. Zimmerman and Sons dairy farm at Danville, and the Jesse R...

Does Hazelnut E. coli Outbreak Extend to Canada?

Posted on March 08, 2011
Canadian public health authorities are trying to determine whether two people with E. coli O157:H7 infections are part of an outbreak associated in the United States with in-shell hazelnuts.The two Canadian cases have genetic fingerprints that match the U...

More Discussion of E. coli Testing in Beef

Posted on March 08, 2011
One week after U.S. Department of Agriculture Inspector General Phyllis Fong called for better E. coli O157:H7 testing procedures, the Beef Industry Food Safety Council unveiled new, voluntary guidelines for testing products such as beef "trim," the leftover pieces from larger cuts used to make ground beef...

Fong's Folly: Trying to Test Our Way Out

Posted on March 08, 2011
U.S. Department of Agriculture Inspector General Phyllis Fong made her annual presentation to the Subcommittee on Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies Committee on appropriations on March 2. Most of what she said to this group of U...

States Draw Line Against Yellowstone Brucellosis

Posted on March 08, 2011
The cattle states of Colorado and Nebraska are putting up some defenses over what's going on with brucellosis up in the Yellowstone country of Wyoming, Montana and Idaho.The two states that share borders with Wyoming are putting stricter animal identification requirements in effect for cattle that have spent any time in the Yellowstone Park area...

Organic Herbal Tea Recalled Due to Salmonella

Posted on March 08, 2011
A retailer has recalled 2,659 pounds of Peppermint Organic Herbal Tea produced by a Washington state company because it may be contaminated with Salmonella.Atlanta-based Teavana Corporation announced the voluntary, nationwide recall Monday of tea produced by Aromatics Inc...

White Paper: Strong FDA is Good for the Economy

Posted on March 08, 2011
The Alliance for a Stronger FDA, an advocacy group made up of medical and food industry groups, released a white paper Monday examining the "far-reaching and positive" economic impact that a strong, well-funded U.S. Food and Drug Administration can have on the American economy...

Processors Cited Over Lobster, Crab & Tuna

Posted on March 07, 2011
Seafood processing facilities turning out lobster bisque, canned pasteurized crabmeat and refrigerated tuna loins, as well as yellow fin and big eye tuna, received warning letters in February about their operations.The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) sent the warning letters on:-Feb...

Irish Eaters Lodge Complaints About Food

Posted on March 07, 2011
The Food Safety Authority of Ireland (FSAI) announced late last week that nearly one-fourth of over 10,000 calls received through the agency's advice line were information requests and complaints related to food and food establishments in 2010. According to a press release issued by FSAI, the agency received 2,126 food-related complaints, most of which were reports of unfit food...

Figures Lie, Liars Figure: A Correction

Posted on March 07, 2011
Last week, I penned an article for Food Safety News about a quote attributed to an American Meat Institute official regarding testing of product at a further processing plant that had already been tested at a slaughter facility. In that article I stated that in 2009, there were 64 positive tests for E coli O157:H7, and that 29 of those samples were in ground beef that came from a sole source and was not comingled...

Australia's Privatized Meat Inspection Questioned

Posted on March 07, 2011
An alternative meat inspection program used by Australian exporters maintains sanitation standards equal to those of the USDA's Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS), according to a notice of approval published in the Federal Register March 3.The notice says FSIS is reaffirming its earlier decision to accept Australia's Meat Safety Enhancement Program, or MSEP, for beef, sheep and goat meat...

New York Times: Food Safety Cuts 'Make No Sense'

Posted on March 07, 2011
The New York Times on Sunday sharply questioned proposed food safety budget cuts, pointing to potential public health and economic consequences. The House has voted to cut more than $88 million from this year's meat inspection budget at the U.S. Department of Agriculture and $242 million from the U...

Eleven Percent of E. coli Cases May Be Secondary

Posted on March 07, 2011
In November 1996, a butcher who had been in business 28 years in the little town of Wishaw, southeast of Glasgow, used the same utensils to handle raw and cooked meat.As a result of cross contamination in that single meat shop, more than 400 people became ill and 21 died from E...

Wisconsin Should Get Tough On Raw Milk, Panel Says

Posted on March 07, 2011
America's Dairyland could dramatically raise the bar on raw milk regulation if its Legislature and governor ever allow it to be sold in Wisconsin.A year after Wisconsin's Raw Milk Policy Work Group began deliberating, the panel is close to a report that will not endorse raw milk sales, but will say that if raw milk is made legal in Wisconsin, the state should impose restrictive requirements that go beyond any now found in America...

Letter from the Editor: Scholarships

Posted on March 06, 2011
I am proud to say that I am a card-carrying member of the International Association for Food Protection.I am a member because last summer the publisher sent me at the last possible minute to the IAFP annual meeting in Anaheim. With no one around to plead to for press credentials, and without being a member or being pre-registered, the amount I was being asked to contribute for attending was, as they say, a bit much...

Some Skippy Peanut Butter Recalled

Posted on March 05, 2011
Skippy Reduced Fat Creamy and Super Chunk Peanut Butter Spreads are being recalled in 16 states because they may be contaminated with Salmonella.The affected reduced fat peanut butter was distributed to retail outlets in Arkansas, Connecticut, Delaware, Illinois, Iowa, Maine, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, North Dakota, Pennsylvania, Virginia and Wisconsin...

Canada Finds BSE in Alberta Dairy Cow

Posted on March 05, 2011
Bovine spongiform encephalopathy, commonly known as mad cow disease, was detected last month in a dairy cow from Alberta, the Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) acknowledged Friday.The agency said no part of the slaughtered cow was used for human or animal food and the case should not affect exports of Canadian cattle or beef...

Seven Ill in E. coli Outbreak Linked to Hazelnuts

Posted on March 05, 2011
Seven people in three states became ill in an outbreak of E. coli O157:H7 linked to unshelled hazelnuts sold during the holiday season.The outbreak, in Michigan, Minnesota and Wisconsin, prompted the Los Angeles-based distributor, DeFranco and Sons, to recall bulk and packaged unshelled hazelnuts, as well as mixed nut products containing hazelnuts (which are also called filberts)...

Imported Smelt Recalled in Nine States

Posted on March 04, 2011
A New York company is recalling fish imported from Japan because it has the potential to be contaminated with Clostridium botulinum, bacteria that can cause life-threatening botulism.Daiei Trading Co., Inc. of College Point, NY is recalling Gourmet Family Brand Large Mouth Smelt Komochi Shishamo after a routine inspection by the New York State Department of Agriculture & Markets found the product to be uneviscerated...

Canadian Food Violations Net $15,000 in Fines

Posted on March 04, 2011
Canadian courts have recently issued fines totaling $15,000 for violations of various federal meat, plant, and fish laws and their supporting regulations.Montreal-based Les Aliments Rose Hill Inc. pleaded guilty to two counts of violating Canada's Meat Inspection Act, and was fined $1,000 for each count...

Council on Foreign Relations Food Safety Talks

Posted on March 04, 2011
The Council on Foreign relations held a symposium late last month focused on improving food and drug safety in the face of increasing globalization--the discussions at the meeting are now available online.To watch the sessions, see the Council on Foreign relations site, which is hosting full length content, including a transcript, here...

Lunch Safety in My High School Kitchen

Posted on March 04, 2011
It was a cold, stormy Wednesday morning at Bainbridge High School during second period when I walked down to the lunch room to see if I could talk to Brian Parker--the food service manager at BHS-- about this article I am writing for Food Safety News...

FDA OKs Trials for Drug to Combat Diarrhea

Posted on March 04, 2011
Saying it is hard to overstate the need for such a medicine, the Institute for OneWorld Health (iOWH) this week announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has granted approval to begin phase 1 trials for a drug to treat secretory diarrhea.Diarrheal diseases--such as cholera--kill nearly 5,000 children in developing countries every day, more than AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria combined, the IOWH said in a news release...

Popular Pickle Processor Gets Fix-It List

Posted on March 04, 2011
When Angelenos gather at their favorite delis and the talk turns to pickles, they often learn the source is A-1 Eastern Homade. A-1 supplies pickles to many delis in the Greater Los Angeles area, and for customers who find its Johnston Street processing facility, it will sell 5-gallonsof take-home kosher pickles for just $18...

GAO Report Backpedals, Catfish Farmers Say

Posted on March 04, 2011
Domestic catfish producers Thursday accused the Government Accountability Office (GAO) of "back-peddling" on food safety in seafood inspections.The Catfish Farmers of America took offense at GAO's questions about the cost of moving catfish inspection to USDA's Food Safety and Inspection Service from the U...

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