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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

FSIS Measures Worry Meat Processors

Posted on April 18, 2010
Late last year, Deputy Agriculture Secretary Kathleen Merrigan, in the first ever live Facebook chat between the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) and the public, assured small meat processors and meat lockers that her agency would be sensitive to their concerns in crafting the details of food safety regulation...

Oyster Relocation In Mobile Bay

Posted on April 17, 2010
Mobile Bay's oyster areas are open to harvesting again after being closed for 24 days. Public oyster reefs, however, remain off limits as Alabama's Marine Resources Division moves six million pounds of oysters to the nearly depleted White House reef south of Fowl River from one of the abundant reefs in upper Mobile Bay...

Food Service Safety: Do We Need a Carrot?

Posted on April 17, 2010
In 2009, according to an Associated Press calculation that used a formula created by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), 87 million people become ill due to foodborne contamination annually. Of those, 371,000 are hospitalized and 5,700 die! Further to this metric, the CDC estimates that 70 percent of the "illnesses" occur due to failures in food service operations...

DeLauro: CDC Stats Show Need for Reform

Posted on April 17, 2010
Congresswoman Rosa DeLauro (D-CT) responded the recent Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's (CDC's) recently released report on foodborne disease, which showed mixed results on food safety progress, by again calling for an overhaul of the food safety system...

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Appeals Court Rules on Pesticide Application

Posted on April 17, 2010
Pesticide application made in accordance with existing law and regulations--the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA) and EPA's 2006 National Pollution Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) Rule--is lawful, according to a March 30 ruling by the U...

Florida Tomato Safety Bill Passes House

Posted on April 17, 2010
Florida growers have not yet recovered from the early 2010 cold snap that led to a nationwide tomato shortage and they are still dealing with those pesky penny-a-pound for pickers protesters, but they did manage to make safety job one.Florida's tomato food safety bill will become law with Gov...

NY Finds Salmonella In Black Pepper

Posted on April 16, 2010
A routine inspection by the New York Department of Agriculture has prompted a Maryland company to recall its 3.5 oz. jars of Black Pepper Double Gold Fish for possible Salmonella contamination.Cheverly, MD-based MY-A & CO. recalled the product that comes in plastic jars with no product codes...

Neurotoxins in Soy Grab Headlines

Posted on April 16, 2010
"Which Veggie Burgers Were Made With a Neurotoxin?" asked Mother Jones this week, in an article detailing the findings of a Cornucopia Institute study on the use of hexane, a harsh pollutant, in non-organic soy production. After Mother Jones published the article on Monday, CBS News, New York Daily News, and dozens of blogs picked up the story...

Kraft Canada Recalls Tartar Sauce

Posted on April 16, 2010
The wrong label--one not disclosing that egg is an ingredient--has brought a warning from the Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) and Kraft Canada for people to not eat certain Kraft Tartar Sauce.The suspect item is a 355 ml size with a Uniform Product Code of 0 683071 0 and Best Before Dates of 10 OC 02 and 10 OC 08...

CDC: Foodborne Illness Numbers Down

Posted on April 16, 2010
Since the bad old days of the late 1990s, federal food safety officials say the incidence of the best-known foodborne illnesses have been cut back. Shigella is down 55 percent, E. coli O157 is down 41 percent, Campylobacter is down 30 percent, and Salmonella is off by 10 percent...

UK Food, Water Safe from Volcano

Posted on April 16, 2010
Thirty years ago when Mount St. Helens exploded in Washington state, it gave a whole new meaning to the concept of washing your fruits and vegetables. It was like being dumped on dry cement mix.While a major inconvenience, food and water safety were not put at risk by the 1980 eruption and health experts do not expect Iceland's exploding volcano will put anyone at risk from eating and drinking...

S. 510 Stalls Behind Financial Reform

Posted on April 16, 2010
The food safety bill pending in the Senate has hit another speed bump. S. 510, the FDA Food Safety Modernization Act, will not be brought to the floor next week, as was widely expected. Instead, the upper chamber will take up financial regulatory reform...

Farmers Praise Wal-Mart Heritage Ag Program

Posted on April 16, 2010
Wal-Mart's reputation may largely be opposite the local movement, but the company's diligent work with its Heritage Agriculture program is helping to change that. Local farmers who work with the superstore praise the company as easy to work with and very supportive of their small farm endeavors...

Who Got Face Time At FDA

Posted on April 15, 2010
Sodium, trans fat, and food dyes were on the agendas for meetings held last month with the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Commissioner, Dr. Margaret A. Hamburg and some of the nation's top public health advocates, FDA's public calendar shows.Food Safety News has chosen March 2010 for one of its periodic looks at who is meeting on food-related issues with top officials at FDA...

FSANZ Accepting Comments on GM Foods

Posted on April 15, 2010
Food Standards Australia New Zealand (FSANZ) is now accepting public comment on a consultation document for two applications to approve the sale of genetically modified (GM) foods in Australia and New Zealand and one for a processing aid obtained from a GM source...

Raw Milk Website Launched

Posted on April 15, 2010
In the last month alone, two of the largest distributors of raw (unpasteurized, unprocessed) milk in the Northwest, PCC Natural Markets and Whole Foods, announced plans to discontinue the sale of raw milk altogether. The reason, they said, was that many experts, including government officials and scientists, warn that raw milk is a high risk food that potentially contains a wide variety of harmful bacteria--including Salmonella, E...

Groups Urge Plan Reversal for Brazilian Beef

Posted on April 15, 2010
On Monday, thirty-two groups filed a joint letter to the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) and the U.S. Trade Representative (USTR) urging both agencies to abandon plans to relax U.S. foot-and-mouth disease restrictions with regards to Brazilian beef and other livestock products...

Farmers Gain in Senate Food Safety Battle

Posted on April 15, 2010
An update on the pending food safety bill, with an outline of key amendments and discussion on the proposed exemption for small farmsSeveral amendments aimed at lessening the impact on small farms will be adopted in the final version of the food safety bill headed for the Senate floor next week, a key sustainable agriculture group announced yesterday...

Bakery, Juice-Maker Hear From FDA

Posted on April 14, 2010
A bakery with misbranding issues and a juice-maker with sanitation problems have received warning letters from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration's Minneapolis district office.Misbranding violations were found at Wisconsin Brother's Bakery Inc., located in Sturtevant, during inspections last September, according to W...

Celiac Disease and Food Safety...Connecting Dots

Posted on April 14, 2010
Why is it important for people with Celiac Disease and/or other autoimmune diseases or compromised immune systems to be concerned about food safety and why would it be useful to go see Food, Inc.?Celiac DiseaseOver the last 65 years, Celiac Disease diagnosis has moved from a pediatric centered, symptomatic diagnosis, to people of all ages increasingly being diagnosed by various tests, scans, and more thorough biopsies...

Gillibrand Tackles Food Deserts

Posted on April 14, 2010
On Monday Senator Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY) and Representative Nydia Velazquez (D-NY) introduced legislation to combat 'food deserts' prevalent throughout urban and rural communities across the United States.A food desert is a large and isolated geographic area where mainstream grocery stores and access to fresh produce are absent or distant...

Gulf Areas Closed to Oyster Harvest

Posted on April 14, 2010
Louisiana, the nation's largest producer of fresh oysters, has closed more of its Gulf Coast harvest areas this spring than at any time in the last decade.The closures came quickly last month. Oyster harvest areas in four Louisiana parishes south of New Orleans have been closed since late March...

Audit Finds Tainted Meat Reaching Consumers

Posted on April 14, 2010
Veterinary drugs, pesticides, and heavy metals are making it onto our plates via meat, according to a federal audit released this week. The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Office of the Inspector General (OIG) report concludes that the agencies responsible for monitoring harmful residues are "not accomplishing" their mission...

Whole Foods, PCC Pull Raw Milk

Posted on April 14, 2010
It could be 'forever': Whole Foods and PCC Natural Foods pull raw milk from dairy departments In an unexpected "super-sized" version of its announcement last month that it wouldn't be selling any more raw milk until it developed a consistent set of national standards, Whole Foods has recently gone a step further and decided to discontinue raw milk sales altogether...

Meat Producer Forms Food Safety Team

Posted on April 13, 2010
JBS S.A., the world's largest beef producer, has formed a Food Safety and Quality Advisory Team for its American division, JBS USA. Based in Greeley, CO, JBS USA maintains one of the country's largest beef and pork processing capacities. The Advisory Team will consist of JBS personnel and six industry experts from Colorado State University, Texas A&M University, and West Texas A&M University...

US Versus World Over GM Food Labels

Posted on April 13, 2010
If you are going to "do the Codex", you better already be in Paris. Next week, you will be in Xian, China and you will finish out April in Izmir, Turkey. In May, it's back around the world to Quebec City, Canada.Yesterday in Paris, the Codex Committee on General Principals got underway for a week...

Q&A: IBM's Food Traceability System, Part II

Posted on April 13, 2010
As part of our ongoing expert Q&A series, a conversation with Paul Chang, who leads the Serialization/Traceability initiative at IBM, on how traceability can revolutionize global food safety--can the system be utilized by small farmers and producers?Part IIQ: So, if you're a processing plant taking chickens from lets say 10 different farms, how do you handle traceability when products from different locations are commingled?A: The idea there is to uniquely identify individual containers of chicken parts--not sure how else to describe this--so you have, lets say, a hundred chickens you've gotten from one farm...

Pulitzer Awarded for Food Safety Expose

Posted on April 13, 2010
Michael Moss and members of the New York Times staff won the 2010 Pulitzer Prize in Explanatory Reporting for telling Stephanie Smith's story, it was announced Monday.Smith is the Minnesota dance instructor who was horribly damaged from eating hamburger manufactured by Cargill Inc...

Senate Gears Up for Action on Food Safety

Posted on April 13, 2010
After months of uncertainty, the Senate is expected to bring pending food safety legislation to the floor within the next week. The FDA Food Safety Modernization Act (S. 510), has been stalled behind health care reform and other priorities since it was unanimously voted out of committee in mid-November...

Ground Beef Recalled In Modesto

Posted on April 12, 2010
Going into this past weekend, on April 10, WinCo Foods recalled all ground beef products sold at its Modesto, CA store between April 3 and 9, 2010.The Class 1, High Health Risk recall is only for the Modesto store located at 2200 Plaza Parkway.A principal of a reputable food-testing laboratory advised WinCo Foods that, as a part of an independently funded survey of ground beef sold in supermarkets, it had found two samples of ground beef purchased at the Modesto store to be positive for E...

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