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Food Safety News

Daily online newspaper dedicated to reporting on issues surrounding food safety.
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KY Seafood Products & Labels Questioned

Posted on May 21, 2010
We'd like to tell you it isn't so.But "Grandma's Tuna Sandwich," "Salmon Cakes," and "Ooohman Vegan Burgers" made by Louisville's Dolce LLC are adulterated and misbranded.The Kentucky seafood processing facility has "serious violations" of the seafood Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Point (HACCP) regulations, the U...

Templeton Produced Unsafe Animal Feed

Posted on May 21, 2010
Animal feed that was produced by Templeton Feed & Grain Inc., a medicated feed mill in Templeton, CA, is unsafe and adulterated, according to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA).In a recently released April 13 warning letter to Templeton Feed & Grain, FDA said a Nov...

Salmonella Lawsuit Filed In Oregon

Posted on May 21, 2010
A Salmonella lawsuit was filed against Los Dos Amigos restaurant in Roseburg, Oregon, Wednesday. According to the complaint filed in Douglas County Circuit Court, Roseburg resident Melissa Surmon became ill after eating take-out food from Los Dos Amigos restaurant on April 9 and was hospitalized for four days with a Salmonella infection...

Few Healthy Food Choices in Urban Food Deserts

Posted on May 21, 2010
Residents of urban food deserts, typically low income neighborhoods, have to deal with limited healthy food choices, in addition to perhaps more obvious disadvantages of life there. A food desert is generally defined as a location where residents have to travel twice as far to get to the nearest supermarket as their peers in wealthier parts of town...

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World Bank Lends China $100M for Food Safety

Posted on May 21, 2010
The World Bank will provide a $100 million loan to the People's Republic of China to improve food safety efforts, Food Production Daily reported yesterday. The loan, the bank's largest ever for a food safety initiative, will fund 70 percent of the China's initiative to up the safety of agricultural commodities from the Jilin Province...

Phages: A New Means of Food Safety?

Posted on May 21, 2010
The goal of making food safe is never-ending. Food safety experts, microbiologists, and industry insiders are constantly searching for new ways to improve the food safety system in the United States.Within the last few years, food growers and producers have begun to use a novel means of improving food safety through the use of bacteriophages...

USDA Study Shows Gaps in Local Meat Infrastructure

Posted on May 21, 2010
A preliminary study revealed by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) yesterday maps exactly where gaps exist in the local meat processing infrastructure by showing the availability of slaughter facilities for small and very small producers. The maps were released yesterday during an agency briefing on the 'Know Your Farmer, Know Your Food' initiative, which recently took some heat from Republicans in the Senate...

Mexican Breads Recalled For Allergens

Posted on May 20, 2010
Three Mexican bread products are being recalled by Oregon's Dominguez Family Enterprises because they contain undeclared Whey (milk), Soy Flour, and Wheat.The Hood River company said people who have an allergy or severe sensitivity to milk, soy, and wheat run the risk of serious or life-threatening allergic reaction to the breads...

Importer Warned About Refused Shipments

Posted on May 20, 2010
A California importer who allegedly tried to re-import products previously refused by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) may get off with a warning, specifically a warning letter.The attempt to re-import refused product was carried out by Pomona, CA-based Rosy Trading Co...

Taylor's Maid-Rite Open With Red Violation

Posted on May 20, 2010
Taylor's Maid-Rite in Marshalltown, the restaurant that tried unsuccessfully to get itself exempted by Iowa's Legislature from some state food safety rules, continues to operate in violation of the law.The restaurant can continue to operate using its traditional Maid-Rite cooking vessel for as long as it takes to run out its administrative appeals...

Can the Report, Not the Facts on BPA

Posted on May 20, 2010
Bisphenol A (BPA) is once again taking center stage in the media after a new report was released on the chemical earlier this week. The National Workgroup for Safe Markets, a coalition of US public health and environmental health non-government organizations, released the report No Silver Lining: An Investigation into Bisphenol A in Canned Foods after conducting a study that aimed to quantify BPA levels in common canned goods...

Open Up! FDA Unveils Transparency Proposal

Posted on May 20, 2010
In an effort to help consumers and stakeholders understand how the agency operates and makes decisions, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration's (FDA's) Transparency Task Force yesterday released 21 draft proposals and invited the public to comment. "Governmental decisions, particularly regulatory decisions, should be based on publicly available information," said former FDA commissioner Donald Kennedy, in 1978...

Wisconsin Gov Nixes Raw Milk Legislation

Posted on May 20, 2010
Bucking a 60-35 vote by the Wisconsin state Assembly in favor of raw milk legislation that would allow dairy farmers to sell unpasteurized milk directly to consumers, Wisconsin Gov. Jim Doyle on May 19 vetoed the legislation in its entirety, citing public health concerns as the reason...

Cheesecake Facility Needs A Lift

Posted on May 19, 2010
The building, equipment, and employees at Yo Lily Cheesecake Co., a food-manufacturing firm owned by C. V. Foods Corp. in Chula Vista, CA, are among the deficiencies Food and Drug Administration (FDA) inspectors have found.FDA said its February inspection of the Yo Lily Cheesecake Co...

Bears and food security Part III

Posted on May 19, 2010
False belief #3: We can live in harmony with wildlife This belief is held by people who are insulated from the essential biological condition of all animals, including the human one. The commonalities are: people refuse to hear facts from local people who know, preferring instead to will their own believed reality into existence; people get their information from television, where reality is at one remove and often distorted by Disney-fied commentary; despite the close encounters and reports of deaths, people insist that those incidents are the exception, that the responsibility for such attacks is the humans, who were too close, too unkind, too...

France Bans BPA in Baby Bottles

Posted on May 19, 2010
Last week France joined a growing list of governments placing limits on the use of bisphenol-A (BPA) in food and beverage containers intended for small children as its National Assembly approved a ban on manufacturing, importing, exporting, or selling baby bottles made with the chemical...

Campylobacter Claim Filed Against Saratoga Springs

Posted on May 19, 2010
Last week, the City of Saratoga Springs, Utah, issued a boil water order for the northern half of the city after Campylobacter bacteria were discovered in the city's drinking water system. At least 15 people have become ill with confirmed Campylobacteriosis, and the Utah County Health Department has received additional reports of illness consistent with Campylobacter infection...

Utah Campylobacter Outbreak Traced to Raw Milk

Posted on May 19, 2010
Late last week, Food Safety News reported that a Salmonella outbreak in Utah had been linked to contaminated raw milk. So far, the Utah Department of Health said Sunday, six people have tested positive for Salmonella. The Utah Department of Health also confirmed Sunday that raw milk was suspected in another, unrelated outbreak, this time involving Campylobacter...

Raising Awareness: World Hepatitis Day

Posted on May 19, 2010
This month marks the fifteenth Anniversary of Hepatitis Awareness Month in the United States; May 19 is World Hepatitis Day. World Hepatitis Day was launched by the World Hepatitis Alliance in 2008. The goal is to raise awareness about viral hepatitis in the U...

Local Foods Week Underway in Michigan

Posted on May 19, 2010
The Governor of Michigan, Jennifer M. Granholm, proclaimed this week "Local Foods Week" to encourage schools, restaurants, hospitals, and other institutions to look for and use foods grown and produced in Michigan on their menu offerings, helping to create new markets for Michigan farmers and providing a fresher, healthier alternative for the state's school children, according to the Michigan Department of Agriculture...

Experts Address Oil Impact on Fish, Wildlife

Posted on May 19, 2010
Gulf seafood safety is getting a big assist from the army of federal wildlife, fisheries and national park agents who are on scene to protect thousands of species from the BP oil spill.In a 62-minute media conference call Tuesday, officials from the U...

Feinstein Aims to Ban BPA

Posted on May 19, 2010
A controversial amendment proposed by Senator Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) to ban the use of bisphenol-A, otherwise known as BPA, in food and drink containers continues to threaten the broad, bipartisan support for the pending FDA Food Safety Modernization Act (S...

Botulism Fears Lead to Recall

Posted on May 18, 2010
Amish Wedding Foods Inc. of Millersburg, Ohio, is recalling all lots of 9, 16, and 18 ounce pumpkin butter, as well as all lots of 16 and 18 ounce sweet potato butter. The recall was issued when it was learned the products may contain botulism. The affected products were sold in North Carolina and most other states under a wide variety of brand names...

Big Food Pledges to Cut 1.5 Trillion Calories

Posted on May 18, 2010
First Lady Michelle Obama Joins Big Food and Beverage Manufacturers to Announce Agreement to Trim 1.5 Trillion Calories Annually by 2015Sixteen of the top U.S. food and beverage manufacturers announced yesterday they will work toward removing 1.5 trillion calories from the American diet annually by 2015, with a total of 1 trillion to be cut by 2012...

DOJ, USDA to Hold 2nd Poultry Antitrust Workshop

Posted on May 18, 2010
The Department of Justice (DOJ) and the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) yesterday announced the schedule and panelists for the second joint public workshop on competition and regulatory issues in agriculture, which will be held on May 21, 2010, in Normal, Alabama...

Study Links ADHD and Produce Pesticides

Posted on May 18, 2010
A new study suggests that exposure to high levels of organophosphate pesticides, which are commonly used on fruits and vegetables, can lead to a higher rate of attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) in children. The study, published yesterday in Pediatrics journal, analyzed the levels of pesticide residue in the urine of 1,100 children ages eight to 15...

Oil Spill Containment does not Shrink Closure Area

Posted on May 18, 2010
BP's limited success at squirting some oil to a ship on the surface did not prevent the expansion of the area of the Gulf closed to both commercial and recreational fishing that went into effect at 6 p.m. Monday.The closed area now includes 10 percent of the federal waters of the Gulf of Mexico...

Dairy Farmer, FDA Score Points in Raw Milk Case

Posted on May 18, 2010
A California raw milk dairy farmer has managed to fend off the federal government's legal attempt to put him and his dairy under tighter scrutiny through strategies such as unannounced inspections. But in the same case, the federal court, Eastern District of California, in its recent April 20 decision (pdf), granted the federal Food and Drug Administration's motion for summary judgment, which prohibits the dairyman, Mark McAfee; his dairy, Organic Pastures Dairy Company; and others associated with the dairy from delivering or introducing raw milk or raw milk products in any form--including raw milk labeled at pet food--across state lines...

Brazilian Animal Drug Abuse Brings Recall

Posted on May 17, 2010
Cooked beef products from one source in Brazil have been stopped at the border because they contain too much of a broad-spectrum antiparasitic used as a de-worming agent in animals. Some "associated products" did get through.That's why Chicago's Sampco Inc...

Ground Beef Recalled for E. coli

Posted on May 17, 2010
California-based Montclair Meat Company Inc. issued a recall May 15 for approximately 53,000 pounds of ground beef products that may be contaminated with E. coli O157:H7, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS)...

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