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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

Two Mixes Added to HVP Recall List

Posted on April 29, 2010
Not all the products containing recalled hydrolyzed vegetable protein (HVP) have been sent back yet. Late to the party is MiDAS Foods International, which is recalling its Instant Beef Soup dry mix and Instant Beef Stroganoff sauce mix.Both products could contain HVP that may be contaminated with Salmonella...

Activity Book, Game Teach Kids Food Safety

Posted on April 29, 2010
The United States Department of Agriculture's Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) Webpage directed towards kids and teens is proving to be educational while also entertaining.Be Food Safe Activity BookThe Be Food Safe Activity Book offered on the Webpage can easily be downloaded off the site...

Experts Say Gulf Seafood Safe Despite Oil Spill

Posted on April 29, 2010
An oil spill spanning over 3,000 square miles in the Gulf of Mexico off the coast of Louisiana, left behind after an oil rig exploded and sank last week, is not threatening to compromise the safety of seafood from the water, according to experts. "No one should be worrying about whether the shrimp they're having for dinner is going to have oil on it," Mike Voisin, the past president of the National Fisheries Institute, a nonprofit organization that tracks the fishing industry, told CNN earlier this week...

Durham Food Poisoning Traced to Restaurant

Posted on April 29, 2010
The Durham County Health Department announced Tuesday that it is investigating a foodborne illness outbreak among people who ate food prepared at Bullock's Barbecue, a restaurant located at 3330 Quebec Drive in Durham. The outbreak reportedly began on April 20...

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Q&A: NSAC Policy Director on S. 510, II

Posted on April 29, 2010
Ferd Hoefner, Policy Director, National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition (NSAC), talks about S. 510, the FDA Food Safety Modernization Act. Part II: On traceability and recordkeeping, exemptions for small food facilities, and S. 510 in its current form...

Kraft, Subway, Starbucks to Cut Salt

Posted on April 29, 2010
Big Apple Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg is enlisting the food industry in his National Salt Reduction Initiative one company at a time.Both restaurants and packaged food companies are signing up for the challenge of reducing sodium in their products by 20 percent over the next five years...

Dairy Warned for Antibiotic Use

Posted on April 28, 2010
The dairy farm at Road 3, Box 73 near Columbus Cross Roads, PA is owned by John B. Yurkanin.The dairyman received a "Warning Letter" from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) dated April 1, that was made public Tuesday, charging the dairy operation with violations of the federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act...

San Diego's Sushi On A Roll Cited By FDA

Posted on April 28, 2010
Sushi On A Roll Inc. claims to be San Diego's only caterer specializing in sushi for large and small parties. It also instructs Sushi classes for up to 30 people at a time from its kitchen and sushi bar located near Petco Park, where the San Diego Padres play...

Non-E. coli O157:H7 Outbreaks Discovered

Posted on April 28, 2010
On cue with recent discussions regarding the regulation of non-O157:H7 strains of E. coli, two outbreaks of non-O157 shiga toxin-producing E. coli (STEC) strains have just emerged. Michigan and Ohio are currently investigating at least 13 E...

On Food Security and Bears (Part II)

Posted on April 28, 2010
Because of what I do and where I live, I am often talking with people about the human-wildlife conflict, and am continually surprised by what I hear. There are many misconceptions about our relationship with nature in general and with wildlife in particular...

Q&A: NSAC Policy Director on S. 510, Part I

Posted on April 28, 2010
Ferd Hoefner, Policy Director, National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition (NSAC), talks about S. 510, the FDA Food Safety Modernization Act.The contents of the FDA Food Safety Modernization Act represent a major new approach to food safety. Looking at it with the customary cautious optimism characteristic of many food trade organizations is the National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition...

Public Health Opposition to Tester Amendment

Posted on April 28, 2010
The Montana Public Health Association sent Senator Jon Tester (D-MT) a letter last week urging him to reconsider his amendments to the pending food safety bill. Earlier this month, Tester proposed two amendments that would exempt small farms from certain aspects of the legislation, which was written to increase the U...

BPA Ban Brewing Storm for S. 510

Posted on April 28, 2010
There's a new fight breaking out over the pending Senate food safety bill. An amendment proposed by Senator Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) to ban the use of bisphenol-A, otherwise known as BPA, in food and drink containers is threatening to break up the broad, bipartisan coalition backing the FDA Food Safety Modernization Act (S...

Comic Book Teaches About Food Poisoning

Posted on April 27, 2010
The United States Department of Agriculture's Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) now has a Web page specifically for kids' and teens' food safety education.This Website has everything from comic books, word searches, and puzzles, to coloring and activity pages...

More Raw Milk Permits Suspended in PA

Posted on April 27, 2010
The Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture urged consumers to discard raw ilk purchased from the Elmer Z. and Martha B. King farm in Aaronsburg, Centre County, and from Cedar Hollow Farm in Mill Hall, Clinton County, yesterday. The move came after milk sold by both dairies tested positive for potentially deadly pathogenic bacteria...

DOJ, USDA Look at Poultry Industry Consolidation

Posted on April 27, 2010
As part of a series of workshops looking into the consolidation of agriculture, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) and the Department of Justice (DOJ) announced further details yesterday regarding a public workshop to be jointly held on May 21 at Alabama A&M University in Normal, Alabama...

Tool Tracks Origin of Milk Shipments

Posted on April 27, 2010
A new tool for the dairy industry to use in fighting food fraud might also help food safety investigators track illegally shipped raw milk.Food fraud might be creeping into 5 to 7 percent of the U.S. food supply, according to researchers at Michigan State University...

Arrests Made Over Contaminated Cheese

Posted on April 27, 2010
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced Friday that the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Florida, FDA Office of Criminal Investigation Miami Field Office, and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement had arrested two people for introducing adulterated food products into interstate commerce...

Gillibrand to USDA: Regulate Non-O157 E. coli

Posted on April 27, 2010
U.S. Senator Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY), who is quickly becoming a leading food safety advocate in the Senate, sent a letter to U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Secretary Tom Vilsack urging the agency to include six additional strands of E. coli as hazardous adulterants that need to be tested by the USDA...

Tomate Basilic Recalled in Quebec

Posted on April 26, 2010
The Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) and Cuisine Bern-Art Inc. are warning the public not to consume the Cuisine Bernart Chicken Supreme "Tomate Basilic" because the product may be contaminated with Listeria monocytogenes.The affected product, Cuisine Bernart Chicken Supreme "Tomate Basilic", is sold in 325 gram trays bearing UPC 6 26408 00732 0 and a Best Before date of 26AL10...

Produce Co, Dairy Receive FDA Warnings

Posted on April 26, 2010
Mid South Produce Distributors in Nashville has taken "prompt action" to control the pest problems it was experiencing at its food processing and storage facility earlier this year, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) said in an April 13 "Warning Letter...

Canada Releases On-Farm Safety Video

Posted on April 26, 2010
The best on-farm practices for producers to protect livestock and poultry from disease are the subject of a new online video from the Government of Canada."Producers have a long-standing and successful history of using preventive measures as a means of keeping animals healthy and the agriculture industry strong," said Agriculture Minister Gerry Ritz...

Social Media Guide to Food & Ag Agencies

Posted on April 26, 2010
Social media sites like Twitter and Facebook are growing at a staggering rate. According to The Nielson Company, consumers spent 82 percent more time using social networking sites this year than last. Were Facebook a country, its 400 users would make up the third largest in the world, right behind China and India...

GMOs and Why Weeds Matter

Posted on April 26, 2010
I am not about to jump into the often heated debate over the merits and dangers of genetically modified organisms (GMOs), however I am intrigued by a new study by the National Research Council that finds both benefits and risks in the long-term use of genetically modified crops...

Canada Pledges Investment in Food Safety

Posted on April 26, 2010
The Canadian Food Inspection Agency's (CFIA's) Food Safety Enhancement Program government/industry steering committee met last week to discuss the progress of various CFIA food safety initiatives.In response to a 2008 Listeria outbreak among Maple Leaf Foods customers, the Canadian Government has committed nearly $500 million to improving the delivery of food safety programs by federal departments...

Tests Find HIV-Like Virus in Bushmeat

Posted on April 26, 2010
Authorities have been trying to crack down on the smuggling of meat from certain animals for years. Some people see the meat from animals such as bats, monkeys, and rodents as a food delicacy, but the illegal importation of such uninspected foods is cause for concern for public health officials and food regulatory agencies...

Lawyer Battles FSIS on Non-O157 E. coli

Posted on April 26, 2010
Before the 1993 Jack in the Box outbreak, little was known about pathogenic E. coli. Since that time, however, E. coli has become nearly universally recognized as a deadly bacterium most commonly found in ground beef. What many people don't know, though, is that different strains of E...

Dairy Charged with Interstate Raw Milk Sales

Posted on April 23, 2010
The Rainbow Acres Farm is illegally selling raw milk across state lines for human consumption, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has charged.FDA used UPS to deliver a "Warning Letter" to the Lancaster County, Pennsylvania farm Tuesday, notifying the owners that an investigation has concluded illegal interstate sales of raw milk are taking place...

Peru to Begin Labeling GM Foods

Posted on April 23, 2010
Peru's unicameral Congress has apparently made a deal.A new Peruvian consumer code will require that food labels disclose both organic and genetically modified ingredients. At the same time, a system of technical and scientific evaluations is being set up to allow for entry of genetically modified or transgenic seeds into Latin America's fifth most populous country...

A New Beginning for Food Safety Education

Posted on April 23, 2010
Last [month] I joined food safety educators and experts from around the globe in Atlanta for the 2010 Food Safety Education Conference. My time at the conference flew by, but due to the incredible amount accomplished and learned there, it is hard to believe I was there only a week...

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