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Food Safety News

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FSIS Demands Prompt Recall Notification

Posted on March 26, 2010
The U.S. Department of Agriculture's (USDA's) food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) is following the Food and Drug Administration in demanding that those it regulates let the agency know promptly if unsafe food is reaching consumers.The new requirement comes in new rules FSIS has published for public comment prior to implementation...

EPA to Overhaul Drinking Water Policy

Posted on March 26, 2010
Earlier this week, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced its plans to overhaul drinking water regulations. According to the New York Times, the new policies will allow officials to police dozens of contaminants simultaneously and tighten rules on the chemicals used by industries...

Prevent Outbreaks: Send Sick Foodhandlers Home

Posted on March 26, 2010
Sick foodhandlers. It's a problem nationally at many restaurants, and is the source of many outbreaks of foodborne disease. Currently, in the Shigella outbreak linked to a Subway restaurant in Lombard, Illinois, sick foodhandlers are believed to have been the cause of the outbreak...

Florida Senate Passes Tomato Safety Bill

Posted on March 26, 2010
The Florida Senate passed a bill to ensure the safety of tomato crops Tuesday, two years after a Salmonella scare connected to Florida tomatoes.Craig Meyer, deputy commissioner at the Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services, explained that the measure is another in a series of industry and regulators' efforts designed to set minimum food safety standards...

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Bill Introduced to Improve Meat Traceback

Posted on March 26, 2010
Senator Jon Tester (D-MT) introduced a bill yesterday to overhaul the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) protocol for tracing contaminated meat back to the source to protect public health and hold "the right people accountable when something goes wrong...

FSN Reaches Out to Food Safety Educators

Posted on March 25, 2010
As part of our ongoing outreach to the public and food safety experts, as well as public health and industry leaders, Food Safety News is sponsoring a booth at the 2010 Food Safety Education Conference in Atlanta this week. The conference, co-hosted by the U...

Canada Fine Tunes Listeria Policy

Posted on March 25, 2010
The first changes in Canada's policy on Listeria monocytogenes in ready-to-eat meats since 2004 were released to the public for comment Tuesday.The goal of the new policies is to protect consumers with appropriate intervention resulting from early warning...

Vilsack: Food Safety Top Priority for Obama

Posted on March 25, 2010
U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack spoke to an audience of over 700 food safety education experts yesterday, emphasizing the Administration's commitment to overhauling the food safety system and shifting towards more preventative regulatory strategies...

CSPI: States Need to Improve Reporting

Posted on March 25, 2010
On Wednesday, the Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI) called on the states to improve outbreak reporting. "Better reporting of foodborne illness outbreaks could speed recalls and save lives," CSPI wrote.  According to a recent publication by the PEW Trusts Produce Safety Project, the national cost of foodborne illness has been estimated at $152 billion annually...

PepsiCo to Cut Salt, Sugar in Food

Posted on March 24, 2010
Last week, in an address to the Grocery Manufacturer's Association, First Lady Michelle Obama asked the nation's largest food makers to reduce the amount of salt, sugar, and fat in their products. "We need you not just to tweak around the edges, but to entirely rethink the products that you're offering," she said...

Food Safety or Bust

Posted on March 24, 2010
Is our food really safe? The plethora of contamination events over the past few years certainly begs the question. The first major contamination event occurred in 1998 when Sara Lee recalled 35 million pounds of various meat products. Recalls were pretty quiet for about 8 years and then: ? In 2006, E...

Health Bill Mandates Calorie Labeling on Menus

Posted on March 24, 2010
With the heated--and at times downright uncivil--political debate over health care reform in Washington, discussion over some of the finer details buried in the 2,500-page health care bill President Obama signed into law yesterday have been drowned out...

WI Legislature Considers Easing Raw Milk Regs

Posted on March 24, 2010
Unlike most states considering changes to their laws governing raw milk, Wisconsin's $26 billion dairy industry has some real "skin in the game."A Wisconsin Senate committee has advanced a bill that would for the first time since 1955 allow direct sales of raw milk to consumers, but only by sellers with permits that conduct testing and provide warning labels on the product...

FoodHub Connects Growers, Buyers Online

Posted on March 24, 2010
FoodHub is a brand new searchable online database of food producers and food buyers of all scales in Oregon, Washington, California, Alaska, Idaho, and Montana. The site was launched in February 2010 by Ecotrust, a nonprofit "think tank" and "do tank" based in Portland, OR that creates and funds economic, social justice, and environmental programs...

Africa Gets Places at World Food Safety Table

Posted on March 23, 2010
Africa is getting chairs at the World Trade Organization's (WTO's) table where food safety and animal and plant health issues are decided.WTO is giving observer status to three regional organizations of African counties on its Sanitary and Phytosanitary (SPS) Committee...

MSU Launches Initiative to Combat Food Fraud

Posted on March 23, 2010
Michigan State University recently launched a comprehensive, multidisciplinary program to address an all too common and often ignored food policy issue: food fraud.According to the university, "the Anti-Counterfeiting and Product Protection Program (A-CAPPP) is the first and preeminent academic body focusing upon the complex global issues of anti-counterfeiting and product protection of all products, across all industries, in all markets and strategies to work effectively to detect, deter, and respond to the crime...

Food Safety For Pregnant Women

Posted on March 23, 2010
Foodborne illness is a serious health risk for pregnant women and their unborn babies. During pregnancy, a woman's immune system is weakened and it is harder for her body to fight off harmful foodborne microorganisms. In addition, the baby's immune system is not developed enough to fight off the harmful microorganisms either...

GAO: Transparency Needed on Irradiation at FDA

Posted on March 23, 2010
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) could improve transparency and recordkeeping on key decisions on irradiation petitions, according to a new report conducted by the Government Accountability Office (GAO).This report was produced in response to a Congressional request for information on food irradiation...

Ontario Court Issues Fines For Violations

Posted on March 22, 2010
Fines of $3,000 for each of two counts of violating the Canadian Meat Inspection Act were imposed last year on an Ontario company after guilty pleas were entered.The Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) announced the final outcome of the case late last week...

Snack Mixes, Cashews Recalled for Salmonella

Posted on March 22, 2010
Another company that gets its pepper from Mincing Overseas Spice Company recalled several of its own products over the weekend for possible Salmonella contamination.Elgin, IL-based John B. Sanfilippo & Son, Inc., a publicly traded company, has recalled some of its snack mix and cashew products because they are seasoned with black pepper supplied by New Jersey-based Mincing...

Chinese Cooking Oil Found Contaminated

Posted on March 22, 2010
The State Food and Drug Administration, China's food safety watchdog, has ordered a nationwide inspection of all cooking oil as reports released by The China Daily indicated that almost one-tenth of Chinese supplies contained cancer-causing agents and were made illegally...

Perdue Recalls Turkey Sausage

Posted on March 22, 2010
The U.S. Department of Agriculture's Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) announced a low health risk, second-class recall over the weekend.It involves about 10,368 pounds of fresh sweet Italian turkey sausage products from Perdue Farms Inc. in Washington, IN...

On Ground Beef Safety: Make Your Own

Posted on March 22, 2010
Hamburgers used to be fun. Remember that? Barbecues, picnics, casual get-togethers: fun. ??With the most recent recall of more than five million pounds of ground beef by Huntington Meat Packing Inc. over the past couple of months, to say nothing of the numerous other recalls of ground beef over the past decade, hamburger doesn't so much say "fun" as it does "back off"...

Report Finds Lax USDA Organic Oversight

Posted on March 22, 2010
The U.S. Department of Agriculture's (USDA's) oversight of organic food has been lax since the agency's organic program was launched in 2002, according to a recent Inspector General report. The findings, published earlier this month by the USDA's Office of Inspector General (OIG), confirmed what organic watchdogs had been saying for years--that the enforcement of federal laws governing organics is abysmal...

Food Safety Conference Attracts 600 Experts

Posted on March 22, 2010
This week, more than 600 public health professionals, health care providers, industry representatives, and food safety experts will take part in the 2010 Food Safety Education Conference in Atlanta. The event, which is jointly hosted by the U.S. Dept...

Gillibrand Asks Moms to Support S.510

Posted on March 21, 2010
Senator Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY) is becoming the newest food safety champion in the Senate. Gillibrand, the first New Yorker to serve on the Agriculture Committee in almost four decades, introduced a comprehensive food policy platform in the fall, which includes plans to improve inspection, recall response, and public education...

Kraft to Reduce Sodium in Products by 2012

Posted on March 21, 2010
Kraft Foods announced last week that the company plans to eliminate 10 million pounds of salt from over 1,000 products in the next two years. The company will reduce the amount of sodium in a number of products by up to 20 percent by the end of 2012...

Letter From The Editor: PR Advice

Posted on March 21, 2010
Food Safety News entered its seventh month of publishing this past week. We thought now would be a good time to speak to food industry executives.This week we learned that just as the nation's top food safety officials were holding a press conference to provide information regarding a food-contamination investigation in Washington D...

New York City to Grade Restaurants

Posted on March 21, 2010
While many restaurants in New York City adhere to good sanitation practices, there are many establishments that need improvement.On Tuesday the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene voted to require restaurants to post letter grades reflecting the operation's cleanliness...

China Rescinds H1N1 Ban on US Pork

Posted on March 21, 2010
China will reopen its market to American pork exports, almost a year after banning the products over H1N1 fears, U.S. officials announced Thursday."This resolution is excellent news for American hog producers," said Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack, in a U...

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