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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

High Levels of BPA on Receipts

Posted on August 05, 2010
According to new laboratory tests commissioned by the Environmental Working Group (EWG), high levels of BPA have been found on 40 percent of receipts sampled from major businesses including outlets of McDonald's, CVS, KFC, Whole Foods, WalMart, Safeway and the U...

Navigating Food Nanotechnology

Posted on August 05, 2010
I'm back in Washington, D.C. after a trip to the wonderful city of Chicago to attend the Institute of Food Technologists (IFT) 2010 Annual Meeting & Food Expo, where food science experts from around the world representing academia, industry, and government gather to learn about the latest innovations in food science and technology...

Farmers Markets Up 16 Percent Nationwide

Posted on August 05, 2010
Farmers Markets Show Strong Growth Across Country, Biggest Gains in MidwestThe number of farmers markets across the country has grown 16 percent this year, according to U.S. Department of Agriculture data released yesterday. The 2010 National Farmers Market Directory lists 6,132 operational farmers markets, in 2009 the agency counted 5,274...

Rattlesnake Cakes Possible Cause of Salmonella

Posted on August 05, 2010
Health officials are investigating a Salmonella outbreak believed to be linked to The Fort restaurant in Morrison, Colorado. Officials believe more than two dozen people who ate at the restaurant last month became ill after consuming undercooked eggs...

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Shopper Card Info Would Aid Investigations

Posted on August 05, 2010
Last summer in back-to-back outbreaks of drug-resistant strains of Salmonella, USDA's Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) made history by recalling more than a 1.2 million pounds of beef.One reason FSIS recalled beef for Salmonella contamination--for the first and second time ever--was because of information gleaned by the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment from those "shopper cards" consumers use to get the best prices at grocery stores...

Mexican Fast Food Linked to 2 Salmonella Outbreaks

Posted on August 05, 2010
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced yesterday that the agency is collaborating with public health officials in several states, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Food Safety and Inspection Service to investigate two Salmonella outbreaks that have been ongoing since April...

Government Seeks Injunction Against Food Processor

Posted on August 04, 2010
The U.S. Department of Justice announced this week that it is seeking a permanent injunction against NY Gourmet Salads, Inc., on behalf of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. The Brooklyn, NY-based processor of ready-to-eat deli salads, seafood salads, and cream cheeses and the company president, Leonard F...

Lawmakers Investigate Kellogg's Recall

Posted on August 04, 2010
House lawmakers are pressing Kellogg's Co. for more information on the company's recent 28 million box recall of Corn Pops, Honey Smacks, Fruit Loops, and Apple Jacks cereals.Rep. Henry Waxman (D-CA), Chairman of the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and Bart Stupak (D-MI), Chairman of the Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations, sent a letter to Kellogg's this week asking a series of questions about the company's handling of the recall, a nationwide incident triggered by complaints of a "waxy-like off-taste and smell" later linked to elevated hydrocarbon levels...

Canada: Meat Recall Prompts Plant Shutdown

Posted on August 04, 2010
A national recall of meat products over food poisoning fears has prompted the shutdown of an Ontario plant for a thorough and intensive sanitization. On Saturday, the Canadian Food Inspection Agency told consumers not to consume about 120 ready-to-eat cooked meat products from Brandt Meat Packers Ltd...

FDA Reopens Gulf Waters to Fishing

Posted on August 04, 2010
Commissioner of Food and Drugs at the U.S. Food and Drug Administration Margaret Hamburg released three statements on Monday announcing the reopening of fishing waters off the coasts of Florida, Louisiana, and Mississippi. Hamburg stated that the FDA is working in close coordination with state and federal partners in each state in order to ensure that seafood harvested from the newly opened waters is safe and free from oil contamination...

Court Rules Farmers Can Challenge USDA Almond Rule

Posted on August 04, 2010
Overturning a lower court decision, the District of Columbia federal appeals court ruled yesterday that a group of California almond farmers have the right to challenge a U.S. Department of Agriculture regulation requiring the pasteurization of almonds...

Non-O157:H7 E coli Gets International Attention

Posted on August 04, 2010
ANAHEIM--A truly international panel of experts on "the significance and detection of STEC or Non-O157:H7 Escherichia coli" did not even get around to expressing opinions on whether any non-O157 E. coli strains should be defined as "adulterants" in meat during a session at yesterday's International Association for Food Protection (IAFP) meeting...

Salmonella 'Befuddles' Science for 125 Years

Posted on August 04, 2010
ANAHEIM -- Daniel Salmon did not 125 years ago discover the pathogen Salmonella. His student Theobald Smith did. The bacteria has so "befuddled" science since then that Salmon might well have not had his name associated with the whole affair...

Anonymous Farmer Sparks Clone Debate In Britain

Posted on August 04, 2010
The possibility of cloned milk and beef products being integrated into the British food supply has been met with an uproar from consumers, the media, and federal agencies. The article sparking this most recent controversy was published in the New York Times...

Sprout Recall Expanded

Posted on August 03, 2010
Specialty Farms, LLC, expanded its recall of alfalfa sprout products late last week to include alfalfa sprout products with a best if sold by date of "8/3/2010" and "8/1/2010". The sprouts were recalled for potential Listeria monocytogenes contamination...

School Lunch Getting a Makeover

Posted on August 03, 2010
More attention is being placed on the culinary skills of those in charge of preparing food at schools, as the childhood obesity rate increases and creates a demand for healthier food where school children receive a significant portion of their calories...

New Test for Rapid Detection of E coli

Posted on August 03, 2010
Life Technologies, a provider of innovative life science solutions, announced at the International Association of Food Protection annual meeting the launch of the MicroSEQ(R) E. coli O157:H7 assay, designed to detect the deadly strain of Escherichia coli (E...

BP Exec Would 'Absolutely' Eat Gulf Seafood

Posted on August 03, 2010
As waters reopen for fishing in the wake of the Gulf oil spill, BP's chief operating officer Doug Suttles offered a public confidence boost for the local seafood industry saying on Sunday he would "absolutely" eat Gulf of Mexico seafood. Louisiana state authorities recently reopened 2,400 square miles of local waters for fishing federal officials reopened approximately a third of previously closed waters last week after the area had been oil-free for over 30 days...

Case Against Vitamin Water to Proceed

Posted on August 03, 2010
A judge ruled last week that the pending lawsuit against Coca Cola's Vitamin Water will proceed. The judge denied Coca Cola's attempts to dismiss the lawsuit on technical grounds. In the suit, attorneys representing the health advocacy group Center for Science in the Public Interest as well as consumers from three different states accuse Vitamin Water of deceptive labeling...

Tap Water Standards Imposed on Bottled Water

Posted on August 03, 2010
ANAHEIM---Most people who engage in the tap versus bottled water debate probably do not know the extent to which the federal government goes to make sure there is not any difference between the two.Sure, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) regulates tap water and the U...

First Lady Calls for Action on Child Nutrition

Posted on August 03, 2010
With the expiration date on the child nutrition program quickly approaching, First Lady Michelle Obama is again calling on Congress get moving on the pending reauthorization bill. Mrs. Obama penned an op-ed in the Washington Post yesterday, A Food Bill We Need, asking Congress to act "as soon as possible" on the legislation...

Flour Investigated as E. coli Source

Posted on August 03, 2010
ANAHEIM-- If you test enough flour you can find some contaminated by the potentially deadly pathogen--E. coli O157:H7--but testing probably is not going to do much when it comes to making flour safe to eat.So concluded three speakers--Cargill's Joe Shebuski, Nestl�'s Tim Jackson, and ConAgra's Ben Warren--who Monday addressed the International Association of Food Protection (IAFP) on flour food safety...

Meat: Americans' #1 Food Safety Concern

Posted on August 02, 2010
According to a national survey of more than 3,000 participants conducted for NPR by Thomson Reuters, more than 60 percent of Americans are worried about food safety, with 51 percent expressing particular concern over the safety of the nation's meat supply...

Publishers Platform

Posted on August 02, 2010
I received this email this weekend in response to an interview I gave recently about raw milk to "Food Manufacturing" online:Farm fresh? All the rage? natural food craze? certified organic is a buzzword? You make the lifestyle of eating pure, unpesticide treated, unindustrialized, unprocessed food seem like a generational fad like acid washed denim or cabbage patch dolls...

DeLauro E. coli Bill Draws from Tester Bill

Posted on August 02, 2010
When you copy somebody else's work, it is called plagiarism. One exception to that rule, however, is when one Congressman or Senator takes language from a colleague's bill and inserts it into one of his or her own. Then it's called one of the highest forms of flattery...

South Dakota Announces New Organic Food Rules

Posted on August 02, 2010
In South Dakota new legislation went into effect July 1 allowing the creation of new rules and regulations on organic food sold in farmers markets. The regulations were created by the state Department of Health in tandem with the South Dakota Cooperative Extension Service...

As Waters Reopen, FDA Confident in Gulf Seafood

Posted on August 02, 2010
As waters reopen for fishing in the Gulf of Mexico, federal public health officials are maintaining confidence in the safety of seafood harvested in the region. Just days after the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration reopened one-third of all previously closed federal waters, the state of Louisiana reopened a major chunk of closed local waters late last week for finfish and shrimp fishing...

The Truth Behind 'Natural' Chicken

Posted on August 02, 2010
A disagreement among poultry producers about whether chicken injected with salt, water, and other ingredients can be promoted as "natural" has prompted federal officials to consider changing labeling guidelines. The U.S. Department of Agriculture had maintained that if chicken wasn't flavored artificially or preserved with chemicals, it could carry the word "natural" on the package; however, after some producers, politicians, and health advocates noted that about one-third of chicken sold in the U...

Spilled Milk, A Threat?

Posted on August 02, 2010
Is milk as dangerous as oil? Many would tell you not to cry over spilled milk, but if you are a dairy farmer you may have reason to shed a few tears. Dairy farmers may become subject to a 2002 update to the landmark 1970s Clean Water Act that requires them to possess the same spill prevention abilities as oil companies like BP and Exxon...

Bill Would Up Penalties for Food Safety Violations

Posted on August 02, 2010
Senator Patrick Leahy (D-VT), Chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, introduced legislation late last week that would stiffen the penalties for companies that knowingly violate food safety standards. According to Leahy's office, the Food Safety Enforcement Act would increase the sentences prosecutors can seek for people who "knowingly contaminate the nation's food supply and endanger Americans' lives...

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