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Salmonella Outbreak Traced to Raw Tuna

Posted on April 23, 2010
The Hawaii State Department of Health announced yesterday that it has confirmed 10 cases of Salmonella Paratyphi B infection related to the consumption of previously frozen internationally imported raw ahi tuna at various locations on Oahu.According to the Hawaiian Health Department, at least 13 laboratory-confirmed S...

UN: Dairies Major Greenhouse Gas Emitters

Posted on April 23, 2010
The United Nations' Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), recently released a report detailing dairy greenhouse gas emissions. According to Greenhouse Gas Emissions from the Dairy Sector, dairies account for 4 percent of all global anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions...

Produce Industry Talks Safety, Traceability

Posted on April 23, 2010
Produce safety and traceability were two central topics of discussion this week at the United Fresh Produce Association's 2010 industry conference in Las Vegas.The increased industry-wide focus on improving food safety and ensuring products are traceable from farm to fork comes as Congress considers legislation to overhaul outdated food safety in an effort to prevent deadly and economically damaging foodborne illness outbreaks...

Beef Trim Recalled for E. coli

Posted on April 22, 2010
The U.S. Department of Agriculture's Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) recently conducted a Food Safety Assessment at Fort Worth's Beltex Corporation and discovered possible E. coli O157:H7 contamination. That in turn forced the Texas establishment to recall of 135,500 pounds of beef trim...

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Glass in Water Hoax Gets Woman Jail Time

Posted on April 22, 2010
A Washington state woman who made one false report too many about a piece of glass in a bottle of water is getting both jail time and home detention, according to federal prosecutors.The 36-year old Buckley, WA woman, Kelsy Macom, was sentenced to 30 days in jail and three months of home detention with electronic monitoring followed by three years of supervised release for the federal charge of Tampering with a Consumer Product...

Seattle Station Tracks Food Safety

Posted on April 22, 2010
KCTS 9, the public television station in the Seattle area, aired a short documentary last Friday on the history of food safety since the 1993 Jack in the Box E. coli O157:H7 outbreak that sickened over 600 and killed five. The video features prominent food safety lawyer Bill Marler and several of his clients, including Brianne Kiner, a 10-year-old girl who spent almost 6 months in the hospital in 1993 after eating at Jack in the Box, and Stephanie Smith, a 22-year-old dance instructor who was paralyzed by a stroke after contracting E...

Groups Express Concern Over GM Labeling

Posted on April 22, 2010
More than 80 public health, environmental, agriculture, and organic food organizations are fighting to protect genetically modified (GM), or genetically engineered (GE) food labels.The groups sent a letter Tuesday to Michael Taylor, deputy commissioner for food at the U...

USDA Updating Farmers Market Directory

Posted on April 22, 2010
On Monday the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Agricultural Marketing Service (AMS) launched it's latest campaign to collect information about farmers markets for the 2010 National Farmers Market Directory. The National Farmers Market Directory is the official record of the nation's farmers markets...

FSIS Nominee Awaits Confirmation Hearings

Posted on April 22, 2010
Dr. Elisabeth Hagen, the President's choice to be the next Under Secretary of Food Safety at the Department of Agriculture, Monday will begin her fourth month of waiting to be confirmed by the United States Senate.Hagen, chief medical officer at USDA, was named on Jan...

On Food Security and Bears

Posted on April 21, 2010
I've recently been involved in a discussion with the BC Food Systems Network about the relationship between bears and food security. In terms of food security, this issue is an extremely important one for anyone living where large predators exist. I plan to write about it over several articles in order to dispel some common misconceptions about the human-predator relationship in terms of food security, and to propose some practical solutions...

School Lunches Could Threaten Security

Posted on April 21, 2010
A group of retired military officers yesterday cited school lunches as a threat to America's national security. Mission: Readiness, as the group is called, appeared yesterday on Capitol Hill with Senator Richard Lugar (R-Ind) and Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack touting a report that says fatty school lunches make children so obese that future military recruitment is in jeopardy...

FDA Says It's Not Yet Regulating Salt Use

Posted on April 21, 2010
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) issued a statement Tuesday, saying "a story in today's Washington Post leaves a mistaken impression that the FDA has begun the process of regulating the amount of sodium in foods."That might be because the headline on the Washington Post story said "FDA plans to limit amount of salt allowed in processed foods for health reasons...

Dingell to Senate: 'Now is the time'

Posted on April 21, 2010
Congressman John Dingell (D-MI), currently the longest-serving member of Congress and a fierce advocate for tougher food safety laws, is again calling out the Senate for stalling on pending food safety legislation to modernize the U.S. Food and Drug Administration...

Letter to Readers: Suggestion Box

Posted on April 21, 2010
Food Safety News will take its first break from publishing this weekend (unless something big breaks) while our publisher, writers, editor, and others affiliated with the site gather to talk about how we can improve upon what we do every day: deliver "breaking news for everyone's consumption" to inboxes, iPhones, Facebook and Twitter pages, RSS readers, and our Website...

R-CALF Says Small Plants Need a Break

Posted on April 21, 2010
The Ranchers-Cattlemen Action Legal Fund, United Stockgrowers of America, known as R-CALF USA, wants the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Point abandoned or revamped with an alternative meat inspection protocol.The Billings, MT-based beef producer organization formally requested the action in a letter to USDA Secretary Tom Vilsack this week...

Wo Chong Sprouts Recalled for Salmonella

Posted on April 20, 2010
Late last week, the California Department of Public Health warned consumers not to eat Wo Chong brand alfalfa or clover sprouts because of potential contamination with Salmonella. The sprouts were sold in 4-ounce plastic containers and 1-pound plastic bags...

Hepatitis A Warning in Peekskill, NY

Posted on April 20, 2010
The Westchester County Health Department announced Friday that the public health agency was providing free post-exposure hepatitis A treatment for customers of the Dunkin Donuts/Baskin Robbins restaurant located at 422 Washington Street in Peekskill, NY...

FSIS Reports Few Meetings With Outsiders

Posted on April 20, 2010
Since President Obama made his pick to be Under Secretary of the U.S. Department of Agriculture for Food Safety, top officials at USDA Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) have not been meeting with many outsiders.The President nominated Elisabeth Hagen, USDA's chief medical officer, as the new Undersecretary for Food Safety, but she has yet to be confirmed by the slow-moving U...

USDA to Award School Food Safety Grant

Posted on April 20, 2010
As part of its initiative to improve school lunch safety, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) is accepting grant applications from universities to establish a center of excellence for school food safety research. The agency will grant one award of $800,000 for FY 2010 to establish the research center...

E. coli Likely Source of Washtenaw Co. Outbreak

Posted on April 20, 2010
The Washtenaw County Public Health Department announced yesterday that it is investigating 10 potential E. coli cases that are likely caused by a common food source, according to a report in the Detroit News. Dr. Diana Torres-Burgos, Washtenaw County's medical director, announced that the county is in the early stages of an investigation and is trying to do as much as possible to identify probable cases and prevent additional illness...

ABC Grills Vilsack on Meat Residues

Posted on April 20, 2010
In response to the recent U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Office of the Inspector General (OIG) report, which found that the agencies responsible for monitoring veterinary drug, heavy metal, and pesticide residues are "not accomplishing" their mission, ABC News anchor Ron Claiborne sat down with Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack to discuss the findings...

Undeclared Wheat Brings Meat Recall

Posted on April 19, 2010
By mistakenly not disclosing wheat starch on the ingredient label, a California meat processor has been forced to recall 140,000 pounds of fully cooked assorted products.Santa Ana-based Westlake Food Corporation issued the recall over the weekend, according to the U...

Winco Expands Fresh Beef Recall

Posted on April 19, 2010
WinCo Foods announced Saturday that it is issuing an expansion of a Class 1 recall of fresh ground beef products to include ground beef sold at all of its retail stores. The original recall included ground beef sold only at its Modesto, CA outlet...

White House Opens Gardens to Public

Posted on April 19, 2010
The White House opened its gates to the public last weekend for the annual Spring garden and grounds tour, a tradition begun by First Lady Pat Nixon in 1972.Thousands of visitors wandered the grounds on the self-guided tour, featuring the Jacqueline Kennedy Garden, the Rose Garden, Sasha and Malia Obama's swing set, and, the newest addition to the grounds, the White House Kitchen Garden on the South Lawn...

Raw Milk: An issue of Safety or Freedom?

Posted on April 19, 2010
One need not look far to grasp the scope of this country's food safety problems, and the personal devastation that can happen when somebody is infected by E. coli, Salmonella, Campylobacter, or any other foodborne pathogen. Stephanie Smith, who, at the time of her illness, was a 19-year-old dance instructor from Cold Springs, Minnesota, suffered an E...

School Food Safety Inspections Lacking

Posted on April 19, 2010
Although federal law requires schools across the country to have food safety inspections twice a year, nearly 9,000 schools during the 2007-2008 school year did not. According to data from the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Food and Nutrition Service, almost 27,000 schools in the U...

Debate Over Antibiotic Use Continues

Posted on April 19, 2010
Discussion on the link between antibiotic resistance in humans and the routine, subtherapeutic use of antibiotics in food animal production rolls on. For the past several weeks, congressional staff working on food, agriculture, and health issues have heard from both both sides of the debate with a series of briefings on the issue...

Letter From The Editor: Distractions

Posted on April 18, 2010
Within our little circle of writers, editors, and freelancers, we at Food Safety News are often having a conversation about not getting distracted. We want to focus like a laser on food safety. We do not want food seducing our people and taking them down roads where they do not belong...

Help With Egg Safety Rules

Posted on April 18, 2010
Last year, the federal government issued egg safety regulations designed to prevent Salmonella Enteritidis in shell eggs during production, transportation, and storage.Now, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has published some guidance for small egg producers to help them comply with the regulations...

NSF Honors Food Safety Leaders in DC

Posted on April 18, 2010
NSF International, a not-for-profit global leader in food safety solutions, presented six 2010 Food Safety Leadership awards at the Food Safety Summit in Washington, DC last week. Among those honored: Food Safety News founder and publisher, William Marler, a food safety media guru, consumer advocate, and managing partner of Marler Clark, LLP, PS, the leading food safety plaintiff litigation firm...

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