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Food Safety News

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CDC Says Two Strains Possible In Outbreak

Posted on February 13, 2010
The nationwide Salmonella outbreak associated with Italian-style salami may involve two strains of the pathogen, the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in Atlanta has confirmed.In the latest update, CDC said 225 people in 44 states and the District of Columbia were infected with Salmonella Montevideo...

USDA Tightens Organic Regulations for Livestock

Posted on February 13, 2010
After much debate, the federal government is moving to bring clearer and more stringent regulation for organic agriculture, the fastest growing sector in the food system.The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) announced a new rule yesterday that will require meat and dairy bearing the USDA Organic Seal come exclusively from livestock that have spent a significant portion of their lives grazing on pasture...

'Year of the Tiger' Begins Sunday

Posted on February 13, 2010
Even something as ominous sounding as "The Year of the Tiger" should be celebrated safely.The year of Geng Yin, the formal name for the Lunar New Year that begins on Sunday, is the 11th year in the current 60-year cycle of the "Stem-Branch" system. It is also known as year 4707 in the Chinese calendar...

Antibiotic Stewardship and Policy

Posted on February 12, 2010
As part of the 2010 Conference on Antimicrobial Resistance, Symposium 6 brought together experts in the area of Stewardship and Policy.Dr. Susan J. Rehm, of the National Foundation for Infectious Diseases (Bethesda, MD) moderated talks given by Dr. Neil Fishman, of the University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA), Robert C...

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Traceability: Is One Standard the Cure?

Posted on February 12, 2010
"What the traceability industry needs right now is a single traceability standard". This underlying theme was echoed in a number of presentations from several speakers at the recent Traceability Inter-Operability conference hosted by the Traceability Institute in Denver a few weeks ago...

Chicago Man Sues Over Salami Illness

Posted on February 12, 2010
Illinois resident Raymond Cirimele regularly purchased Daniele Inc. Italian-style salami products at a Costco store in Cook County. Last November he ate some of that pepper-coated salami and was infected with Salmonella Montevideo.After that, Cirimele experienced all sorts of gastrointestinal symptoms including diarrhea, aches and pains, fever, and severe abdominal cramps...

First Lady Raises Profile of School Lunch Reform

Posted on February 12, 2010
The White House pushed school lunch reform up a few notches on the agenda this week with the launch of First Lady Michelle Obama's ambitious campaign to combat childhood obesity.Mrs. Obama launched the Let's Move campaign, which aims to end the challenge of childhood obesity within a generation, from the White House Tuesday before on audience of local DC students, members of Congress, Cabinet secretaries, health advocates, agriculture experts, and members of the press...

Group Calls on FSIS to Ban 6 More E. coli Strains

Posted on February 12, 2010
The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) should "give a life-saving gift" to Americans this Valentine's Day by declaring six additional strains of E. coli that cause illness and death as adulterants in beef, a top food safety group says.Under the law, adulterants are impurities not to be tolerated...

New Technology Extends Food Shelf-Life

Posted on February 11, 2010
Washington State University has developed a new technology that will allow food to look, taste, and be as nutritious as the original food but with a shelf-life of more than six months.Juming Tang, a professor in the WSU Department of Biological Systems Engineering, led a team of industry, university, and U...

Wheat In Pork Patty Mix Isn't On Label

Posted on February 11, 2010
Champ Meatball Co. in Whittier, CA Wednesday recalled approximately 750 pounds of frozen cured pork patty mix because it contains an undeclared allergen, wheat, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS)...

Foreign Materials Force Sausage Recall

Posted on February 11, 2010
Springfield, NJ-based Schmalz European Provisions Wednesday recalled approximately 1,485 pounds of ready-to-eat sausage products that may contain foreign materials, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS)...

China Launches Food Safety Commission

Posted on February 11, 2010
In the wake of another melamine milk recall and a recent food safety crackdown, China's state council has set up a high-profile food safety commission to address the nation's food regulatory problems.Yesterday the Chinese government announced that the commission will consist of three vice premiers and a dozen minister-level officials...

NAIS Dead, Food Safety Not A Goal

Posted on February 11, 2010
Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack killed the $142 million National Animal Identification System (NAIS), and any hope it might contribute to food safety, last week.At a meeting of state agriculture commissioners, Vilsack said the NAIS as conceived after the discovery of Mad Cow disease in the United States in 2003 had proven to be vastly unpopular with America's farmers and ranchers...

Bill in GA House would Legalize Raw Milk

Posted on February 11, 2010
Yesterday, Georgia State Rep. Doug McKillip introduced a bill in the Georgia House that would legalize the sale and consumption of raw, unpasteurized milk. As the law currently stands in Georgia, raw milk is illegal to sell for human consumption, but activists and farmers have been trying to change the law since state officials raided a local farmer's supply last October...

Milwaukee Fish Company Warned By FDA

Posted on February 10, 2010
The 97-year-old Empire Fish Company got its start selling fish from the Great Lakes to Milwaukee area restaurants. Today it processes vacuum-packed cold-smoked salmon, bonito, mahi-mahi, tuna, wahoo, mackerel, jobfish, jack or crevalle, trevally, escolar, clams, cockles, mussels, oysters, scallops, and air-packed, and hot-smoked salmon for both wholesale and retail markets...

Implications of Rapid Diagnostic Testing

Posted on February 10, 2010
As part of the 2010 Annual Conference on Antimicrobial Resistance, Symposium 3 brought together experts to present during a symposium titled, "Implications of Rapid Diagnostic Testing."Presenters for this portion of the conference included Dr. Ian Gardner, MPVM, BVSc, PhD, of the University of California (Davis, CA) and Dr...

Jimsonweed Source of Toxic Poisoning

Posted on February 10, 2010
Last week's Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR) from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention includes a report on anticholingeric poisoning from the consumption of jimsonweed in July of 2008. Jimsonweed is a plant that was historically used by American Indians for medicinal and religious purposes...

Salmonella Montevideo Outbreak Grows

Posted on February 10, 2010
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in Atlanta Tuesday added four people and two states to the Salmonella Montevideo outbreak linked to Italian-style salami manufactured by the Rhode Island-based Daniele Inc.CDC now says a total of 217 individuals infected with a matching strain of Salmonella Montevideo have been reported from 44 states and District of Columbia since July 1, 2009...

Food Safety & Organic Management

Posted on February 10, 2010
From peanuts and pistachios to spinach and tomatoes--product recalls in the last few years have had a huge impact on many user companies marketing both conventional and organic products, and have led directly to widespread calls for improvements in U...

India Suspends Introduction of GM Crop

Posted on February 10, 2010
On Tuesday, India denied permission for commercial cultivation of what would have been its first genetically modified (GM) vegetable crop. Amid controversy and protest, the Environment Minister Jairam Ramesh deemed BT brinjal--a strain of GM aubergine, or eggplant--unsafe for immediate public consumption...

Anthrax Warnings for UK Heroin Users

Posted on February 09, 2010
Both England and Scotland since December have recorded cases of anthrax where the source is believed to be heroin or a contaminated cutting agent mixed with heroin.There is no evidence of any person-to-person or airborne transmission, according to both the Health Protection Agency (HPA) and the National Health Service (NHS)...

Susceptibility & Antibiotic Resistance

Posted on February 09, 2010
As part of the 2010 Conference on Antimicrobial Resistance, Symposium 2 brought together experts in the area of Susceptibility Issues.Dr. George M. Eliopoulous, of Beth Isreael Deaconess Medical Center (Boston, MA) moderated talks given by Dr. Ronald N...

China Recalls 170 Tons of Melamine Milk

Posted on February 09, 2010
As part of its ongoing effort to find and destroy any melamine-tainted milk remaining on the market, the Chinese government is recalling 170 tons of milk powder laced with the industrial chemical.Officials announced the recall after finding that more cases of the tainted milk--which was supposed to be destroyed or buried in 2008--had been repackaged and placed back into the marketplace...

Global Food Safety Conference Wrap-Up

Posted on February 09, 2010
Over 600 food safety experts and industry leaders from 40 countries convened in Washington, DC last week for the Global Food Safety Conference. The three day event, sponsored by the Consumer Goods Forum, discussed the future of assuring food safety in the globalizing food supply chain, and emphasized the role the Global Food Safety Initiative can play in harmonizing food safety schemes...

Vietnam: Pepper Not Contaminated

Posted on February 09, 2010
Vietnam is not about to accept blame for the nationwide Salmonella Montevideo outbreak in the United States.Do Ha Nam, chairman of Vietnam Pepper Association, says the Salmonella outbreak in the U.S. is probably due to "mistakes in the process by food producers...

A Look at Safety Through the (Soy) Pod

Posted on February 08, 2010
Educated consumers who want to avoid genetically modified ingredients place trust in organic companies to fully test their products for genuine or non-organic soybean sourcing.Native to the Far East, soy food comes from soybeans. Traditional forms of soy foods include edamame, soymilk, tofu, and fermented foods such as miso, soy sauce and tempeh...

School Lunch Safety Initiative Launched

Posted on February 08, 2010
The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) announced last week a number of new initiatives to improve the safety and quality of food purchased for the National School Lunch Program and other federal nutrition assistance programs.The agency announced that it will implement new food safety purchasing requirements for its beef suppliers and it has asked the National Academies of Science (NAS) to review the entire ground beef purchasing program, amongst a series of other changes...

Econ, Public Policy & Antibiotics

Posted on February 08, 2010
The first symposium of the Annual Conference on Microbial Resistance focused on the economic and public policy aspects of antibiotic resistance and antibiotic development. Moderator Susan Foster, PhD, of the Alliance for the Prudent Use of Antibiotics (Boston, MA) presented first, then facilitated a Q&A session with other presenters Ramanan Laxminarayan, PhD, of Resources for the Future (Washington, DC) and Kevin Outterson, JD, LLM, of Boston University School of Law (Boston, MA)...

Poultry Litter Limits Offered by OK

Posted on February 08, 2010
In documents filed ahead of this week's closing arguments in a trial against 11 poultry companies, the State of Oklahoma says it could live with an application limit of 65 pounds of poultry litter per acre.Poultry companies, however, want to come out of the federal trial in Tulsa with no limits, saying the state had failed to demonstrate any "substantial threat to human health, drinking water, recreational use, or wildlife...

Meat Industry Braces for CBS Antibiotics Series

Posted on February 08, 2010
Meat industry groups are bracing for consumer backlash from a much-anticipated CBS Evening News series on antibiotic use in food animal production, scheduled to air this week after experiencing several delays.The series, scheduled to air Feb. 9 and 10 (6:30 p...

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