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Food Safety News

Daily online newspaper dedicated to reporting on issues surrounding food safety.
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Is Food Irradiation the Future? Part II

Posted on July 12, 2010
Part II in a two-part series on food irradiation. On foodborne illness outbreaks caused by ground beef, fresh leafy greens, and spices--all foods that could arguably be made safer through irradiation--and the future of the technology and its impact on the safety of the food supply...

Is Food Irradiation The Future?

Posted on July 12, 2010
Part I in a two-part series on food irradiation, with a focus on the science behind the technology.With summer underway, barbeque season is in full swing. For some, that means a fresh salad, for others it means grilled chicken, and for others it's biting into a juicy hamburger...

Letter from the Editor: Go Throttle Up!

Posted on July 11, 2010
Making law can be lot like a Space Shuttle launch. One minute it's "Velocity 22 hundred 57 feet per second...Altitude 4.3 nautical miles...Downrange distance 3 nautical miles. Engines throttling up...Three engines now at 104 percent. Challenger, go at Throttle Up...

Publisher's Platform

Posted on July 11, 2010
CRETE--I must admit I have been a bit neglectful in my weekly duties of getting my Publisher's Platform in on time. This week I actually did have time to think about doing it between visits to a former Leper Colony (lawyers still welcome), very old Cretan churches and even older Minoan ruins...

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Canadians Suffer Paralytic Shellfish Poisoning

Posted on July 10, 2010
Canada has issued a nationwide warning after mussels personally harvested recently from a closed area of New Brunswick resulted in illnesses from Paralytic Shellfish Poisoning (PSP).The Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) warned the public against consuming personally harvested bivalve shellfish from and around closed harvest areas...

Manufacturing Practices Questioned For Nic-o-boli

Posted on July 10, 2010
Another meat sandwich known only in one state is trouble in with regulators.This time it is the Nic-o-boli made only at Nicola Pizza Inc. located in Rehoboth Beach, DE, that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) says is misbranded and being made in insanitary conditions...

Hellman Recalls Avocado Pulp For Listeria

Posted on July 10, 2010
Los Angeles-based J. Hellman Frozen Foods Inc. has recalled 992 cases of Se�or Mexicano Avocado Pulp.A random sample test of the Avocado Pulp by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) was positive for Listeria monocytogenes.The Hellman recall involves 4,960 retail units of the Avocado Pulp product...

Peppers Recalled For Salmonella

Posted on July 10, 2010
California's Miravalle Foods Inc. has recalled 37,318 lbs. of its "Miravalle Chile California & Miravalle Chile Nuevo Mexico" brand chili peppers for possible Salmonella contamination.Miravalle Foods, based in South El Monte, said the possibly contaminated peppers were distributed in eight states between March 15 and May 6, 2010...

CFIA Enforcement Brings Fines, Jail Time

Posted on July 09, 2010
Two companies and a truck driver are facing sentences for violating federal laws enforced by the Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA).Omega Advanced Technologies Incorporated, an Ontario-based corporation, has been ordered to pay $2,000 to the Hospital for Sick Children and fined $500...

Attending ICEID? Visit Us At Booth 704!

Posted on July 09, 2010
The International Conference on Emerging Infectious Diseases (ICEID 2010) gets underway in Atlanta Sunday through Wednesday, July 11-14, and the 2,500 people attending all know who they are. The bi-annual meeting of public health specialists, infectious disease physicians, and researchers, epidemiologists, military infectious diseases and emergency preparedness personnel, and others involved in infectious diseases will exchange scientific and public health information on emerging global infectious disease issues...

Another Spinach Recall for E. coli Contamination

Posted on July 09, 2010
California's Ready Pac Foods Inc. has recalled 702 cases of Spinach Temptations, a variety of baby spinach, in 6 oz. bags.Ready Pac, based in Irwindale, said the baby spinach products might be contaminated with dangerous E. coli O157:H7 bacteria.The recalled spinach, with use by dates of July 4 and 8, were distributed in California, Washington state, and Arizona...

USDA Launches 'Ask The Expert' Database

Posted on July 09, 2010
This week the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) announced the launch of a knowledge-based search engine called Ask the Expert. The new tool is meant to optimize customer experience while conserving taxpayer dollars, the USDA said in a press release...

EU Rejects Cloned Meat and Milk

Posted on July 09, 2010
On Wednesday the European Union (EU) voted on legislation that will ban cloned meat and other animal products in the European food supply. The legislation will meet its final hurdle in the hands of the ministers of the 27 EU member states. In September these governments will finalize the rules of the bill with EU legislators...

Poll: Most NV Voters Support Food Safety Bill

Posted on July 09, 2010
Poll Puts Pressure on Senate Majority Leader to Schedule Food Safety Bill for a VoteEighty-two percent of Nevada voters say they support the food safety legislation pending in the Senate, according to a poll (pdf) released yesterday by the Make Our Food Coalition in a move to put pressure on Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV)...

Millions Chronically Exposed to Arsenic in Water

Posted on July 09, 2010
Between 35 and 77 million Bangladeshis have been exposed to toxic levels of arsenic from drinking contaminated water, a public health calamity causing one in five deaths in the country, according to new research published in The Lancet medical journal...

Sliced Turkey Recalled For Listeria

Posted on July 08, 2010
A small amount of sliced turkey--just 17.5 pounds--is being recalled by Allentown, PA-based K. Heeps Inc. because the company's bird meat may be contaminated with Listeria monocytogenes.The U.S. Department of Agriculture's Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) said recalled product is fully cooked turkey breast...

Pacific Nutritional Foods Agrees to Pay $30,000

Posted on July 08, 2010
Oregon's attorney general has cracked down on a Tualatin-based manufacturer of soy and tofu products for allegedly selling contaminated food and then surreptitiously pulling it off the market. Pacific Nutritional Foods Inc. agreed to pay the state $30,000, adopt new practices to prevent contamination, and follow state and federal food safety reporting regulations, in an out of court settlement filed at the end of June...

FDA Seeking Input on Nationwide Menu Labeling

Posted on July 08, 2010
Eaters, food companies, policy wonks, and restaurateurs all have the opportunity to weigh in on new nationwide menu labeling requirements. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced yesterday it is inviting the public to comment on implementing a new federal law that requires calorie content and other nutrition information be posted on menu items at certain chain restaurants, retail food operations, and in vending machines...

Bison E. coli Recall Grows; Retailers Named

Posted on July 08, 2010
That bad buffalo meat, originally recalled July 2, is being distributed nationwide through a blue chip retail network. And, the recall was reissued July 7 to include 776 additional pounds of bison products that were sent off to a Nevada processor for additional cuts...

On Antibiotic Resistance in Food Animals

Posted on July 08, 2010
Leadership at the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) made it abundantly clear last week that the low-dose usage of antibiotics in food animals, simply to promote growth or improve feed efficiency, needlessly contributes to the emergence of antibiotic-resistant bacteria and poses a serious threat to public health...

Obama Nudges Senate on Food Safety Reform

Posted on July 08, 2010
President Obama issued a public statement yesterday in support of the pending Senate food safety bill, the first time the president has publicly pressed for U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) food safety reform since early 2009, when his Administration launched the Food Safety Working Group...

An E. coli Patient's Will to Live, Part II

Posted on July 08, 2010
Once a week, Jeanine Iyala loads her two kids into the car and makes the roughly 60-mile round trip from Pleasanton to San Francisco to visit her step-mother at Davies Medical Center. Traveling any distance with a 2-year-old and a 9-month-old is hardly convenient but for Iyala, it's a bittersweet experience, as well...

Food Dyes Linked to Cancer, ADHD, Allergies

Posted on July 08, 2010
These days it's ordinary to cool off with a magenta popsicle or quench thirst with a neon green sports drink. Vibrantly colored foods have become the norm, but studies show that popular food dyes carry profound risks. The Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI) recently published a comprehensive report called "Food Dyes: A Rainbow of Risks" (pdf) which details the inherent risks of nine different dyes widely used in common foods...

8,000 lbs of Beef Jerky Recalled for Allergens

Posted on July 07, 2010
M&K II Co. Tuesday recalled approximately 8,000 pounds of beef jerky because the products contain wheat and soy, undeclared allergens, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS). The Macomb, MI company said products subject to the recall include:-1-ounce and 3-ounce packages of "FIREHOUSE JERKY MILD BEEF JERKY SMOKE FLAVOR ADDED...

Ballpark Food Safety: Minnesota

Posted on July 07, 2010
Editor's Note: As the baseball season nears the All Star break, Food Safety News continues its visits to Major League ballparks. Our focus is on food safety, but we will also be checking out the local food favorites that are bringing out the crowds...

Salmonella at Sasquatch Music Festival

Posted on July 07, 2010
Seven cases of Salmonella have been confirmed in attendees of Sasquatch Music Festival over Memorial Day weekend. There are a number of unconfirmed cases pending test results. Sasquatch is held at the Gorge Amphitheater in George, Washington, each year, with food and beverages provided by Aramark...

WA Daycares Closed Due to E. coli Outbreak

Posted on July 07, 2010
Three daycare centers in Ellensburg, Washington have been closed by the Kittitas County Health Department due to an outbreak of E. coli in attending children. There are eight confirmed and six suspected cases of E. coli, with over 70 children awaiting test results...

Schlosser: 'We Need a Modern Food Safety System'

Posted on July 07, 2010
Author Eric Schlosser Films Action Alert for Food Safety Bill, As Timing in Senate Remains UncertainConsumers Union (CU) is adding some star power to their food safety advocacy efforts. Eric Schlosser, award-winning author of Fast Food Nation and co-producer of Oscar-nominated Food, Inc...

Gulf Seafood's Future Remains Unknown

Posted on July 07, 2010
Maybe now if the Gulf seafood industry could just see over the horizon, it would be comforted just by knowing what's really ahead. Instead, in the 79 days since the Deepwater Horizon blew up, safe seafood from the Gulf remains an elusive possibility, but that's about it...

Linda Rivera: An E. coli Patient's Will to Live

Posted on July 07, 2010
Part I in a II-part series on Linda Rivera's battle with E. coli O157:H7.It's one of those glorious, fogless summer days in San Francisco when the winds whisk the skies clear and everyone is outside basking in sunlight. From Linda Rivera's hospital room at Davies Medical Center, you can see the city's skyline--including the pyramidal TransAmerica Tower--and, if you look down through the thick barrier of evergreens that line the perimeter of the hospital's property, you can see Duboce Park, where local residents sunbathe and let their dogs run free as trains from the N-Judah line roll by before entering the tunnel that will spit them out on the other side of Buena Vista Park...

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