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Oregon Seafood Company Recalls Lobster

Posted on June 16, 2010
A Portland seafood processor is recalling lobster that may be contaminated with Listeria.Portland Shellfish Company Inc. recalled the following brands of cooked, ready to eat fresh or frozen lobster meat: Portland Shellfish Co. Inc brand, Claw island, Craig's All Natural, and Inland Ocean cooked, fresh or frozen lobster claw and knuckle meat...

Meat/Animal Offender Gets House Arrest

Posted on June 16, 2010
A Canadian judge has decided six months of house arrest is sufficient penalty for violations of both the federal Meat Inspection Act and the Health of Animals Act.Ontario Judge Blouin imposed the sentence of house arrest on Oliver Cheung Hon Mok, who pled guilty last January to one court of violating section 9 (1) of the Meat Inspection Act, and one count of violating section 16(1) of the Health of Animals Act...

Hatless Chefs Low Priority for Officials

Posted on June 16, 2010
As fashion becomes more casual, restaurant chefs have moved away from stiff jackets and tall French hats, in some cases abandoning hair restraints all together. San Francisco Restaurant Critic Michael Bauer made an observation last week about the number of chefs letting their hair down...

Vancouver Island Doctors Fail At Hand Washing

Posted on June 16, 2010
A new study reported by the Vancouver Sun found that failed handwashing audits for health-care facilities within the Vancouver Island Health Authority produced "disappointing", and "unacceptable" results, according to the head of patient safety. According to the hand hygiene compliance audits conducted in January and February, physicians were the worst at washing their hands...

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Judge Approves Cargill E. coli Settlement

Posted on June 16, 2010
U.S. District Judge Donovan Frank approved a settlement between Cargill, Inc. and Stephanie Smith, a Minnesota woman who became ill with an E. coli O157:H7 infection and suffered permanent injuries after consuming a contaminated hamburger on Tuesday.Smith, a Cold Spring resident, developed hemolytic uremic syndrome secondary to E...

Animal Well-Being Info Available in Spanish

Posted on June 16, 2010
This week the National Dairy FARM Program announced that key components of materials pertaining to Farmers Assuring Responsible Management are now available online in Spanish.The announcement was made during the National Milk Producers Federation Board of Directors meeting in Alexandria, VA...

Controversy Over Organic Valley Raw Milk Decision

Posted on June 16, 2010
What gives? That's what some raw milk advocates are asking about Organic Valley's recent decision to prohibit its members from selling unpasteurized milk on the side. The decision means that members will have to either sell all of their milk to the cooperative or break off from the cooperative and start up their own raw milk business...

Obama: Gulf Seafood is Delicious, Safe to Eat

Posted on June 16, 2010
President Obama Dines on Seafood in the Gulf as NOAA and FDA Announce Efforts to Monitor Seafood SafetyPushing back against growing criticism of the Administration's response to the catastrophic oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, President Obama paid another visit to the region this week and outlined the federal response efforts in a nationwide address from the Oval Office...

Bimbo Brand Bread Recalled

Posted on June 15, 2010
Bimbo Bakeries USA, Inc. has recalled Bimbo brand Soft White Bread (1 lb. 4 oz. or 567 grams) sold in California, Idaho, Oregon and Washington because it may contain undeclared milk. People who have an allergy to milk run the risk of life threatening or serious allergic reaction if they consume the product...

Jimmy Dean, 1928-2010

Posted on June 15, 2010
Jimmy Dean, the story-telling country music artist who created America's No. 1 selling breakfast sausage, is dead at age 81.His death comes more than 25 years after he sold the Jimmy Dean Sausage Co., which today is owned by the Sara Lee Corp. When Jimmy Dean went into the sausage business in the early 1970s, he largely left behind his career in music and television...

Publisher's Platform

Posted on June 15, 2010
Last week I spoke at the National Environmental Health Association annual convention. My talk was entitled "What has Changed Since Upton Sinclair? A Contemporary View of Food Safety." As I told the audience at 7:30 a.m., to put things in context, in 1906 the U...

USDA Bans U.S. Organic Inspector in China

Posted on June 15, 2010
The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) announced yesterday it has banned one of the leading American inspectors of organic foods in China over conflict of interest concerns. The now-banned firm, the Organic Crop Improvement Association (O.C.I.A.) of Nebraska, which had been certified by the USDA to inspect organic farms, was using Chinese government employees to inspect state-owned farms growing products destined to be exported to the U...

Food Bugs Deserve Red Cards at World Cup 2010

Posted on June 15, 2010
The thousands of soccer (football for the rest of the world) fans traveling to South Africa for the World Cup also get the opportunity for the next few weeks to sample the variety of foods available there, in addition to the action in the packed stadiums...

USDA Tries to Clarify HACCP Guidance

Posted on June 15, 2010
Federal food safety officials at the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) were all ears yesterday at a public meeting to discuss the recent proposed guidance on Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Points (HACCP) validation, a document that has sparked widespread concern and confusion among small and medium-sized meat processors weary of burdensome government regulation...

FDA Requires Salmonella Testing on Eggs

Posted on June 15, 2010
A Purdue University laboratory is getting a steady stream of samples from egg farms as producers gear up to meet the first deadline of a new federal rule requiring them to test for Salmonella. The Indiana Animal Disease Diagnostic Laboratory is a testing point for producers complying with the Food and Drug Administration rule that took effect September 30, 2009...

Unsafe Lead Levels Found in Children's Juices

Posted on June 15, 2010
The Environmental Law Foundation filed Notices of Violation of California Proposition 65 Toxics Right to Know Law this month, alleging the toxic chemical lead was found in a variety of children's and baby foods. The specific food categories included apple juice, grape juice, packaged pears and peaches, and fruit cocktail...

USDA to Hold More Info Sessions on Mobile Slaughter

Posted on June 14, 2010
In another move to promote local meat infrastructure, the USDA announced a red meat mobile slaughter information session for June 24 The U.S. Department of Agriculture's (USDA's) Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) announced it will host an information session on red meat mobile slaughter units later this month...

Studies Analyze Shellfish Safety

Posted on June 14, 2010
Two new studies on viral pathogens in oysters and mollusks shed new light on the need for better detection methods and treatments that are needed to ensure shellfish safety. Over the past few years both the United States and Europe have reported several foodborne illness outbreaks related to contaminated oysters and other mollusks...

Stephanie Smith Science Scholarship Established

Posted on June 14, 2010
A $25,000 Stephanie Smith Science Scholarship has been established at Rocori High School in Cold Spring, MN with a donation from Marler Clark, the Seattle-based food safety law firm.Smith, a 2005 graduate of Rocori High School, maintained close ties to her Cold Spring community as a Just for Kix dance instructor until she became ill with E...

Better Communication Essential For Safer Food

Posted on June 14, 2010
In a new study from Temple University, researchers highlight the need for an interstate system to track and manage foodborne illnesses. In the past month, two multi-state foodborne illness outbreaks have been reported, 23 people in 10 states have become ill with Salmonella infections after eating contaminated alfalfa sprouts and 13 people in five states became ill with E...

Q&A With Eric Schlosser

Posted on June 14, 2010
As part of our ongoing expert Q&A series, a conversation with New York Times best-selling author and award-winning journalist Eric Schlosser Eric Schlosser's book Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal (2001) is, in many ways, still fueling food policy discussion in America...

Gulf Looks For Oyster Replacements

Posted on June 14, 2010
Oyster experts are reporting that when the U.S. Food and Drug Administration sent a diver down after a lost cage last week, they found the bottom of the Gulf area where they were working covered with a thick layer of brown "chocolate" ooze. All the oysters in the cages were dead...

Letter From The Editor: Weston A. Price

Posted on June 13, 2010
Many a raw milk story includes a statement or two from the Weston A. Price Foundation. Raw milk advocates look to the foundation group to call the shots, often at the state level, and always nationally.I should acknowledge at the outset that there is more going on at the the foundation than its raw milk campaign...

Pies Sold In New York Recalled

Posted on June 12, 2010
Brooklyn's Domega NY International Co. Ltd. has recalled FUMA CUSTARD PIE because it may contain undeclared eggs. Consumers who are allergic to eggs may run the risk of serious or life-threatening allergic reactions if they consume this product. The recalled FUMA CUSTARD PIE is packaged in a 650 gram cardboard box containing 26 individual packages, with a date code of 2010 02 04AA...

Federal Marshals Seize Bee Honey

Posted on June 12, 2010
At the request of the Food and Drug Administration, federal marshals seized 64 drums of imported bees honey from a Philadelphia distribution center on June 4 because it contained a potent antibiotic that could lead to serious illness or death.The seizure occurred at the Delaware Avenue Distribution Center, 700 Pattison Avenue, in Philadelphia...

EFSA Assesses Risk of Lead in Food

Posted on June 12, 2010
In a report released by the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA), an expert panel on contaminants assessing current levels of exposure to lead through food and other sources could not set a firm level above which lead in food could trigger health problems...

Did You Know? Iced Tea Safety

Posted on June 11, 2010
Yesterday was National Iced Tea Day. When I was growing up, my mom brewed her iced tea on the front porch in the sun. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) calls the tea she made "sun tea." In 1996, the CDC put out a "Memo on Bacterial Contamination of Iced Tea...

U of M Signs Food Agreement with UN

Posted on June 11, 2010
A world without hunger and safe food to boot is the goal of a new partnership between the University of Minnesota and the United Nations' Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO).The U of M and FAO approved a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) Thursday for the new collaboration to address a range of issues associated with global food security...

Video Study Shows Restaurant Cross-Contamination

Posted on June 11, 2010
According to a North Carolina State University study based on video cameras placed in commercial kitchens, foodservice workers, on average, commit one act of cross-contamination with the potential of leading to illness per hour. "Meals prepared outside the home have been implicated in up to 70 percent of food poisoning outbreaks, making them a vital focus area for food safety professionals," says Ben Chapman, assistant professor and food safety specialist in the department of family and consumer sciences at NC State and lead author of the paper...

Subway Salmonella Outbreak Count Climbs to 71

Posted on June 11, 2010
The Illinois Department of Public Health reported yesterday that the number of confirmed Salmonella Hvittingfos cases associated with Subway restaurants has climbed to 71. Restaurant customers who have become ill with Salmonella infections range in age from 2 to 88 and reported eating at Subway restaurants located in 22 counties-- Bureau, Cass, Champaign, Christian, Coles, Dewitt, Fulton, Knox, La Salle, Macon, Marshall, Moultrie, Ogle, Peoria, Sangamon, Schuyler, Shelby, Tazewell, Vermilion, Warren, Winnebago, and Will...

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