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Food Safety News

Daily online newspaper dedicated to reporting on issues surrounding food safety.
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Last Entry: March 31, 2011 at 06:59:07

National Kidney Month Kicks Off

Posted on March 02, 2010
The National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK), which makes up part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), has issued a press release recognizing World Kidney Day on March 11. The awareness-raising day occurs during National Kidney Month...

Sodium Use in Poultry Production Scrutinized

Posted on March 02, 2010
The U.S. Department of Agriculture's (USDA's) Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) released documentation last month that provides details on allowed additives that do not need to be labeled on meat and poultry products purchased by consumers. For over two years officials at the USDA have been reviewing the issue of chicken sodium injection, an industry food processing standard that has been deemed a natural marinade to make chicken moist but that consumer advocate groups and Senator Barbara Boxer (D-CA) claim misleads consumers...

Court Rulings Endanger Clean Water

Posted on March 02, 2010
According to reports from the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the New York Times, the drinking water of about 117 million Americans could be subjected to widespread pollution. Yesterday, the New York Times reported that Supreme Court rulings over the last decade have caused an erosion of the 1972 Clean Water Act, leading thousands of businesses and corporations to declare that the law no longer applies to them...

Hong Kong Finds 9 Food Problems in Jan.

Posted on March 01, 2010
In 5,000 tests of food samples tested during January, the Hong Kong Centre for Food Safety found only nine problems.It previously reported on seven samples that were contaminated--chili pepper, bamboo fungus (2), Chinese sausage, half-shelled scallops, dried fish maw, and a New Year's pudding---and now it has released its monthly report that details the testing and two other problems...

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Thumb Oilseed Recalls Soy Grits, Flour

Posted on March 01, 2010
The Michigan-based Thumb Oilseed Producers' Cooperative over the weekend recalled soybean grits and flour for possible Salmonella contamination. These were the ingredients that earlier led to the recall of granola bars by two California companies...

Lawsuit Filed Against Pepper Producer

Posted on March 01, 2010
A lawsuit was filed last week on behalf of the family of Donna Pierce, a 69-year-old woman from Hayward, CA who died after consuming Salmonella-contaminated white pepper in April 2009. The suit was filed by Marler Clark, the Seattle-based foodborne illness law firm, against U...

Q&A: Food Protection Training Institute

Posted on March 01, 2010
A Conversation with Jerry Wojtala, executive director of the International Food Protection Training InstituteThe President's 2011 federal budget was recently amended to include an $8 million request to fund the International Food Protection Training Institute (IFPTI), a non-profit organization dedicated to career-spanning food protection training for state and local food protection professionals, located in Battle Creek, Michigan...

DC This Week: Antibiotics, FDA, School Lunch

Posted on March 01, 2010
It is going to be a busy week for food and health issues in the Capital. President Obama is expected to announce the way forward for health care reform and there are a number of food policy events on Capitol Hill, including a briefing on antibiotics in agriculture, the first congressional hearing on the Child Nutrition Act reauthorization, and Senate lobby days for the pending FDA food safety reform bill...

Vietnam Focuses on Food Safety, Hygiene

Posted on February 28, 2010
Vietnam's Administration for Food Safety and Hygiene Department, part of the Ministry of Health, recently announced that 2,000 inspection teams nationwide detected 13,000 food hygiene violations in 47,000 businesses inspected during the Tet holiday.Tet, or the Vietnamese New Year, is celebrated on the same day as Chinese New Year...

American Pecan Recalls 1 lb Bags

Posted on February 28, 2010
The Yancey, TX-based American Pecan Co. Saturday recalled one-pound bags of Pecan Pieces in small, medium, and large sizes, because they may be contaminated with Salmonella.The one-pound bags of pecans were sold to walk-up customers at American Pecan's retail outlet in Yancey, and through mail orders to customers in Texas, New York, and Massachusetts...

Bad Veggie Protein Brings Dip Recall

Posted on February 28, 2010
Johnny's Fine Foods Saturday recalled its French Dip Powdered Au Jus in 6 ounce bottles and French Dip Powdered Au Jus in 1.1 ounce foil packets because the products contain ingredients that maybe contaminated with Salmonella.The Tacoma, WA-based company said the products are distributed nationwide through retail stores...

Letter From The Editor: Meat Slicers

Posted on February 28, 2010
When you go into a food or beverage establishment that is successful and well run, one of the things you will notice is that everything has a place and everything is in its place.Cleaning and sanitizing objects and surfaces is done without almost a conscious thought about what is being done as it is being done...

Children's Books Focus on Food Safety

Posted on February 28, 2010
"Green Apple Tales" is a new children's series which aims to deliver food safety information through its lovable characters, colorful illustrations, and easy to understand principles.There are ten stand-alone books in the series, and each one focuses on a different food safety principle...

Virus Killing Off Atlantic Salmon

Posted on February 28, 2010
Everybody knows tomato prices are up because this winter traveled so far south, but what's up with salmon prices?Spot salmon prices in the United States hit $4.55 a pound earlier this month, up from $2.77 a year ago, according to a market tracking service...

FDA Enforcement Report

Posted on February 27, 2010
First class food recalls and enforcement actions this week by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration fell into a two categories. The actions included recalls for products with undeclared ingredients that might be allergens--like eggs, peanuts, and traces of milk, or products that contained pistachios potentially contaminated with Salmonella...

Dairy Execs Face Trial for Melamine Milk

Posted on February 27, 2010
Three Shanghai Panda Dairy Co. executives faced trial this week for selling dairy products tainted with melamine, an industrial chemical used for economic adulteration which can also cause organ failure.The executives faced trail in the Fengxian District People's Court...

UAE to Launch Food Surveillance System

Posted on February 27, 2010
The UAE expects to enact a national surveillance system to track foodborne illness and draw all food safety activities under one unified law by the end of the year.According to the local Khaleej Times, the nation's top food safety body is working on legislation that will boost food safety in all the emirates...

Wholesome Spice Recalls Red Pepper

Posted on February 27, 2010
The latest event in the nationwide Salmonella outbreak traced to the consumption of contaminated salami is the recall of crushed red pepper by Brooklyn, NY-based Wholesome Spice.As the investigation enters it second month, the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in Atlanta's latest update shows 238 have been infected with a matching strain of Salmonella Montevideo in at least 44 states and the District of Columbia...

Court Shuts Down Maryland Veal Operation

Posted on February 26, 2010
A Maryland veal calf dealer selling about 1,200 animals a year has agreed to shut down after years of refusing to change the way he used drugs in his business.William F. Nickle of North East, MD has agreed to shut down as part of a consent degree of permanent injunction after being charged with repeatedly violating federal law and U...

The American Diet: A Sweet Way to Die

Posted on February 26, 2010
I am often asked what foods I avoid because they may carry a risk of contamination with pathogenic organisms. I have a very short list of foods to avoid on principle based on concerns about the potential for bacterial adulteration. But I am increasingly concerned about the general quality of the American diet as a cause of chronic health problems, including increasing rates of heart disease, obesity, and type 2 diabetes...

Helping Students Avoid Food Allergens

Posted on February 26, 2010
It's no doubt that the first year on campus for college freshman is always a challenging time. For an increasing number of teens, living with food allergies heightens their anxiety level more than the average first year student.According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), in 2007 alone, three million Americans under the age of 18, or 4 percent of the under-18 age group were found to be living with food allergies...

Drilling Could Threaten Drinking Water

Posted on February 26, 2010
Since 2008, natural gas drilling crews have been flocking to Marcellus Shale, a large rock bed that lies about 6,000 feet beneath New York, Pennsylvania, West Virginia, and Ohio. Geologists say it could be the most productive natural gas field in the U...

More Calls for Senate to Act on Food Safety

Posted on February 26, 2010
Beltway insiders are hearing more calls to pass the FDA food safety reform bill pending in the Senate. This week, The Hill, a Capitol Hill newspaper, featured several Op-Eds which highlighted the bill's bipartisan support and urged the Senate to act. Caroline Smith DeWaal, director of food safety at the Center for Science in the Public Interest, penned an article yesterday emphasizing the broad, bipartisan support for the FDA Food Safety Modernization Act, S...

Does Imported Catfish Pose a Health Risk?

Posted on February 25, 2010
More than 90 percent of the catfish imported to the United States originates in Vietnam, a country that has become the largest competitor to U.S. Delta region catfish farmers.An international government debate over the catfish trade is ongoing. Under the 2008 Farm Bill, the U...

Seafood Processors Told About Problems

Posted on February 25, 2010
If you get your Bluefish, Spanish mackerel, Tuna, Shad, King Mackerel, Amberjack, Dolphin (Mahi Mahi), or Wahoo from the Austin Fish Co. in Nags Head, NC or if you get Tuna Salad, Shrimp Scampi Dip, Creamy Seaford Salad with shrimp and surimi, or Smoked Salmon Dip from Garden-Fresh Foods Inc...

NIH, FDA Announce Collaborative Initiative

Posted on February 25, 2010
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced plans to team up in order to accelerate the process from scientific breakthrough to the availability of new, innovative medical therapies for patients Wednesday...

Salsa Poisoning Part of Revenge Plot

Posted on February 25, 2010
A plea deal in the federal criminal case over last year's use of a dangerous pesticide to poison the patrons of a Mexican restaurant in Lenexa, KS means the wife involved will be testifying against her husband.Yini De La Torre, 19, of Shawnee, KS plead guilty Tuesday to one count of conspiracy to tamper with a consumer product...

Meat Industry Defends Antibiotic Use

Posted on February 25, 2010
Top meat industry groups held briefings on Capitol Hill Tuesday defending the use of antibiotics as a critical tool for animal health.The briefings come two weeks after the CBS Evening News with Katie Couric broadcast a two-part series criticizing the widespread use of antibiotics in food animal production...

FDA Warns Dairy Over Antibiotic Abuse

Posted on February 24, 2010
Much higher than allowable levels of the antibiotic sulfadimethoxine have been found in a culled dairy cow sold for slaughter by P&D Dairy in Chino, CA.The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) issued a "Warning Letter" to P&D partners Peter Bouma and Sam Dekruyf on Feb...

Listeria Found in Detroit Sprout Facility

Posted on February 24, 2010
Listeria is contaminating the Sun Hang Bean Sprout Inc. processing facility at 1330 Erskine Street in Detroit, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) disclosed Tuesday. Insanitary conditions at Sun Hang mean the mung bean sprouts processed at the facility are adulterated or impure...

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