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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

Food Safety Issues at the Border

Posted on April 01, 2010
"Disease knows no boundaries and borders are porous to disease" [1]Much has been written about food safety issues related to the increasing sales of imported food in this country. What about the individual traveler, however, who is coming back to the United States, and wants to share a rare French cheese, or a homemade Italian salami, with family and friends? What restrictions, if any, apply when that traveler hits the US border? U...

Salami Maker Sues Pepper Suppliers

Posted on April 01, 2010
In the last two months, Daniele International Inc. has recalled 1.4 million pounds of its ready-to-eat meats because they became contaminated with Salmonella Montevideo, a strain now responsible for an outbreak that has infected 252 people in 44 states and the District of Columbia since July 4...

New Test Developed for Detecting E. coli

Posted on April 01, 2010
Last week, scientists at the National Meeting of the American Chemical Society reported on the development of the first two-in-one test for detecting E. coli bacteria and the toxins or poisons that the bacteria use to cause symptoms in victims...

IN-MI Raw Milk Trade May Be Over

Posted on April 01, 2010
The raw milk supplier to the coop now at the center of a growing Campylobacter outbreak in southeastern Michigan decided recently to stop distributing product across state lines three years after federal officials found the dairy was breaking the law by putting its raw milk into interstate commerce...

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Study Shows Misbranding of Frozen Seafood

Posted on March 31, 2010
Consumers are paying up to $23 per pound for ice when they purchase frozen seafood, a multi-state investigation led by Wisconsin Weights and Measures revealed.Many seafood processors add a coating of ice glaze to their frozen products before packaging to preserve quality during storage and distribution...

BPA a 'Chemical of Concern' Says EPA

Posted on March 31, 2010
On Monday, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced it is formally listing Bisphenol A (BPA), an industrial chemical found widely in consumer goods, as a "chemical of concern." Although this action will not immediately trigger any new legislation, the "chemical of concern" listing indicates that EPA considers BPA potentially dangerous and that further regulatory action is warranted...

Wide Support For Traceback Bill

Posted on March 31, 2010
Former FSIS head, consumer advocates are backing Sen. Tester's traceback billFormer U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) undersecretary for food safety, Dr. Richard Raymond and consumer advocates have voiced strong support for a meat safety bill introduced by Senator Jon Tester (D-MT) last week...

Fair Season Opens With E. coli Warnings

Posted on March 31, 2010
When the Clay County Fair in Florida gets under way tomorrow for the first ten days of April, America's love affair with fairs will be back in season.What remains to be seen is whether the $2.2 million that one fair just agreed to pay a Fresno girl who contracted an E...

Easter Egg Safety

Posted on March 31, 2010
The Easter egg hunt went well. The kids had fun decorating the eggs the night before and even more fun hunting for them the next day. At the end of the day you ran across a couple of eggs they hadn't found. What do you do with them? Go ahead and toss them into the refrigerator, they'll make a great snack later...

Canada Offers Pepper Advice to Consumers

Posted on March 30, 2010
A trickle of pepper recalls has continued in the last few days, prompting the Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) to come forward with some advice for consumers.CFIA said it was working with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on the investigation into Salmonella contamination of black and red pepper in the United States...

Sale of Whale Meat Leads to Restaurant Closure

Posted on March 30, 2010
Although illegal, black market whale trade is on the rise. In 1986, the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES) launched an international ban on whale meat. At present, the global population of whales totals 54,000.The Hump, a sushi restaurant at the Santa Monica Airport, is under federal investigation for selling whale meat...

Timbales: A Passover Treat

Posted on March 30, 2010
Passover began at sundown last night, an annual reminder to Jews around the world of the sacrifices their ancestors made in their quest for freedom from slavery in Egypt thousands of years ago. Passover brings yet another struggle to the forefront each year, as well: what to serve for dessert? ?The ban on leavened foods such as yeast breads (or any grain product that isn't fully cooked within 18 minutes of contact with water, so as to avoid rising) means a lot of favorite desserts are suddenly out of the running for inclusion in the Seder menu, the traditional feast commemorating the Jews' exodus from Egypt...

Thailand Launches Food Traceability Initiative

Posted on March 30, 2010
Thailand's Ministry of Agriculture and Cooperatives (MOAC) is partnering with IBM, FXA Group, and the Communications Authority of Thailand (CAT) to implement a global traceability program, allowing the country's exports to be tracked from the retail level all the way back to the farm...

Critics: Child Nutrition Act Needs Boost

Posted on March 30, 2010
After a series of USA Today exposes in 2009 found staggering gaps in school food safety, many in food policy circles thought food safety would be addressed in the Child Nutrition Act (CNA) reauthorization process this year. USA Today found the leading fast food companies had higher food safety standards than the Agriculture Marketing Service (AMS), which purchases food for the school lunch program...

Untested Meat Exported To USA

Posted on March 29, 2010
Guilty pleas to violating Canada's Meat Inspection Act have now led to individual and corporate fines totaling $125,000, the Canadian Food Inspection Agency reports.Cameron Leth and Wheatland Select Organic Turkey Ltd., in a joint submission, pled guilty last Dec...

Law Students Take On Family Farm

Posted on March 29, 2010
Alan and Kristin Hudson, fourth generation Maryland chicken farmers, want to know why tax-supported law students should be allowed to represent environmental groups while they must hire their own attorney.The Waterkeeper Alliance and the Assateague Coastkeeper are suing Hudson's chicken farm for allegedly polluting a ditch that drains into the Pocomoke River...

Keeping School Lunches Safe and Healthful

Posted on March 29, 2010
A senate panel last week unanimously approved the "Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act of 2010," clearing it for a final vote. The legislation is a re-vamping of the Child Nutrition Act, originally passed in 1966. Portions of the original act were permanent, while others required re-authorization in five year increments...

Produce Safety Topic of Listening Sessions

Posted on March 29, 2010
U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) officials, academics, and fruit and vegetable growers are engaging in discussion across the country on what new produce safety regulations should look like.In an ongoing effort to formulate effective produce safety policies, the U...

New Salmonella Vaccine In Works

Posted on March 29, 2010
Brooke Deatherage received her Ph.D. in microbiology from the University of Washington in December of 2009 for her work with Salmonella. Since the publication of her first article, "Biogenesis of Bacterial Membrane Vesicles," in the June 2009 issue of Molecular Microbiology, Deatherage has built upon this knowledge to move closer to developing a new Salmonella vaccine...

More 'Made in Croatia' Food Coming

Posted on March 28, 2010
More food exports by Croatia will be safe as its consumer protection policies will be up to European Union standards.Those are among the findings of a new World Trade Organization (WTO) review of Croatia's trade policies. WTO says since its independence in 1991, Croatia has gradually been opening up its trade and investment toward its strategic goal of acceding to the EU...

Letter From The Editor: Sound a Warning

Posted on March 28, 2010
We all know there are places in these United States where, when we visit we are hit with that rich feeling. These places look rich, feel rich, and even smell rich.People who reside in these places live in bubbles. They are clueless about life on the outside...

Bad Oysters Sold Throughout Nation

Posted on March 28, 2010
Raw bar patrons got a heads up from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Saturday.FDA said oysters recently harvested from Louisiana's Area 7 on the Gulf of Mexico near the mouth of the Mississippi River at Port Sulphur are responsible for an outbreak of norovirus...

USDA to Fund Food Safety Research

Posted on March 28, 2010
In July 2008, the National Institutes of Health (NIH), National Science Foundation (NSF), and Department of Energy (DOE) asked the National Research Council's Board of Life Sciences to convene a committee to examine the current state of biological research in the United States...

GA House Toughens Food Safety Legislation

Posted on March 28, 2010
Early this month, the Georgia House approved a bill to toughen food safety legislation passed last year. The introduction of the bill was prompted by findings from the investigation of a 2008-2009 nationwide Salmonella outbreak linked to a southern Georgia peanut processing plant...

Judge Orders NY Dairy to Stop Selling Cows

Posted on March 27, 2010
A Wyoming, New York dairy farmer was ordered to stop selling cows for slaughter until he complies with federal law.U.S. District Court Judge Richard J. Arcara ordered Jerald P. Schumacher, who sells dairy cattle through an auction yard in Pavilion, NY to be slaughtered for human consumption, to cease doing business...

USDA Posts Video of Food Safety Conference

Posted on March 27, 2010
The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) created video recaps from each day of the USDA and NSF International-hosted 2010 Food Safety Education Conference in Atlanta.Here are the videos, which highlight speeches from Tom Vilsack, Secretary of Agriculture; Jerold Mande, USDA Deputy Under Secretary for Food Safety; Michael Taylor, FDA Associate Commissioner of Foods; and dozens of other experts in the field...

HVP Recall Smaller Than Expected

Posted on March 27, 2010
To steal a lyric or two from the late great jazz and pop singer Peggy Lee, "If that's all there is, then let's keep dancing." Three weeks ago, it looked like there would not be much time for dancing at the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA). In a late afternoon press conference, Dr...

Survey Indicates Progress on Traceability

Posted on March 27, 2010
On Thursday, the Produce Traceability Initiative (PTI), a comprehensive program to build an electronic trace-back system throughout the produce supply chain, released the results of a survey of more than 260 industry members. The survey, which was conducted online by the Produce Marketing Association (PMA) and United Fresh Produce, was designed to gauge industry members' adoption of the PTI...

Outbreak Prompts FDA Raw Milk Warning

Posted on March 27, 2010
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), along with several state agencies, issued an alert yesterday warning the public about an outbreak of campylobacteriosis associated with drinking unpasteurized milk. At least 12 confirmed illnesses have been reported in Michigan...

Listeria Still Present at NY Fish Company

Posted on March 26, 2010
America's seafood processing industry seems to still be learning about how to implement Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Point plans.This week the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) released five "Warning Letters" to seafood processors that were largely about HACCP failures...

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