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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

Farmer Suicides Increase in Poor Economy

Posted on January 31, 2010
During the Reagan era family farms experienced a rapid demise with many farmers turning to suicide as a result of lost profits. There may once again be a muted epidemic of suicide occurring with the downfall of the economy.The recent suicide of a New York State dairy farmer has drawn attention to the potential recurrence of this issue...

Hong Kong Finds Most Food Safe in Dec.

Posted on January 31, 2010
Only 12 of 6,100 food samples tested by the Hong Kong Centre for Food Safety last month returned "unsatisfactory" results, the city's Food and Environmental Hygiene Department reports.The Food Safety Report for December 2009 for the special administrative region of the People's Republic of China gives the public up-to-date data on the Centre for Food Safety's work...

Letter From The Editor: Justice

Posted on January 31, 2010
Last April I was with the civil plaintiff attorneys and their experts who were working for the victims of the Peanut Corporation of America tragedy when we were all allowed into those PCA peanut-processing plants in Plainview, TX and Blakely, GA.It remains on my mind...

Bangladesh to Improve Seafood Safety

Posted on January 31, 2010
On January 19, the Bangladeshi parliament passed a bill prohibiting the use of antibiotics, growth hormone, steroids and other harmful pesticides in animal and fish feeds. The new bill, if turned into law, will guarantee safer standards for fish and animal feeds that will ultimately improve food safety...

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Canadian Coalition Wants on PM's Agenda

Posted on January 31, 2010
The Canadian Supply Chain Food Safety Coalition is asking Prime Minister Stephen Harper for a new round of consultations between Ministers of Health, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada and the agri-food industry.The ten-year old Coalition, which represents all segments of the food chain, said it "anticipates that food safety initiatives will be included in the upcoming Speech from the Throne...

Failure to Declare Leads To Recalls

Posted on January 30, 2010
This week's Enforcement Report from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration includes one more recall from Oregon's problem with Salmonella in hazelnuts.The rest of the actions involving Class I recalls are pretty simple as they involve not declaring something on the label they should have...

More Melamine-Tainted Milk Found in China

Posted on January 30, 2010
Chinese authorities removed more Melamine-tainted dairy products from the shelves of southern China's convenience stores on Monday. This action comes more than a year after the first of hundreds of thousands of children became sick from drinking contaminated milk products in the ongoing Chinese melamine-tainted milk scandal...

Slow Movement on Food Safety in Canada

Posted on January 30, 2010
A college professor, a consumer group, and the union representing meat inspectors all dumped on Canada's food safety agency this week with the barbs obviously intended for Ottawa's Conservative Government.The Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) is implementing 57 specific reform measures called for by the independent Weatherill report that the government commissioned in response to a 2008 Listeria outbreak that killed 22 mostly elderly Canadians...

USDA: Meat Irradiation off Table for Now

Posted on January 30, 2010
The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) is not moving forward on a meat industry request to approve carcass irradiation as a food safety technique, according to Meatingplace.The American Meat Institute (AMI) sent a letter to the agency's deputy under secretary for food safety, Jerold Mande, in September requesting the meeting to discuss the status of the irradiation proposal the group submitted to the USDA four years ago...

EU Releases Report on Foodborne Illness

Posted on January 30, 2010
At least 45,000 illnesses and 32 deaths resulted from 5,332 outbreaks of contaminated food during 2008 in the European Union, a new report says.Those are among the findings of the recently published 2008 Annual Report on Zoonoses and Foodborne Outbreaks by the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) and the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC)...

Noodles Made In China Recalled

Posted on January 29, 2010
Jersey City-based Well Luck Company Inc. is recalling approximately 50,000 pounds of instant noodle products made in China that were ineligible for import to the U.S., according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture's (USDA's) Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS)...

FSIS Should Require Labeling for Tenderized Steaks

Posted on January 29, 2010
On Christmas Eve 2009, the U.S. Department of Agriculture's (USDA's) Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) announced that National Steak and Poultry was recalling 248,000 pounds of mechanically tenderized beef products contaminated with E. coli O157:H7...

Pollan: Ruling 'Not Good' for Food Safety

Posted on January 29, 2010
Michael Pollan, best-selling author and thought leader of the burgeoning food and agriculture reform movements, warned an audience in San Francisco last week about the implications the Supreme Court's decision to allow unrestricted campaign contributions to political campaigns could have on food safety...

Coalition: USDA Traceback Policy Lacking

Posted on January 29, 2010
Food Safety Coalition Seeks Common Sense Change to USDA Meat Traceback PolicyOn Tuesday, members of the Safe Food Coalition (SFC) delivered a letter to Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack, urging an immediate change in the Food Safety and Inspection Service's (FSIS's) E...

FSIS Begins New Poultry Study

Posted on January 29, 2010
A nationwide raw chicken parts microbiological baseline study to provide regulators and the poultry industry with data on the prevalence and quantitative levels of certain foodborne pathogens and microorganisms is being planned by the Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS)...

Black Pepper Positive for Salmonella

Posted on January 29, 2010
Black pepper supplied by New York's Wholesome Spice to Daniele Inc. to coat its salami products was found by Rhode Island public health officials to contain the Salmonella Montevideo outbreak strain responsible for making at least 189 people sick in 40 states...

FDA Warns Seafood Processors Over HACCP

Posted on January 28, 2010
An Indonesian fish importer and a Wisconsin seafood processor have nothing in common except for the fact that they both were subjected to Jan. 13 "Warning Letters" from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA).Both letters were in a batch released by FDA on Jan...

Urban Agriculture Future of Sustainability

Posted on January 28, 2010
On Tuesday, the National Building Museum in Washington, D.C. hosted a panel discussion on Urban Agriculture as part of the museum's ongoing series, For The Greener Good: Conversations That Will Change the World. Panelists included moderator Allison Arieff, Editor-at-Large, Sunset Magazine and New York Times Contributor; Steven Cohen, Food Policy and Programs Manager, City of Portland Office of Sustainability; Liz Falk, Director and co-Founder, Washington DC-based Common Good City Farm; and Josh Viertel, President, Slow Food USA...

Pepper Tests Positive, FSIS Names Retailers

Posted on January 28, 2010
The black pepper used to coat the salami products on the 1.24 million pound recall list put out by Rhode Island's Daniele Inc. have now tested positive for Salmonella, the company says. The specialty meat company declines to say whom in the wide, wide world of spice supplies its pepper...

BPI Sues to Keep Ammonia Beef Records Private

Posted on January 28, 2010
The ammonia beef saga has taken an interesting twist. Right before the New York Times published an article questioning the pervasive use of ammonia in beef processing, lawyers at Marler Clark, LLP, a food safety litigation firm based in Seattle, sent a formal request to Iowa State University seeking public records related to the research a University professor did on the safety of ammoniated beef...

Water Distributors Get FDA Warnings

Posted on January 27, 2010
Two bottled water companies that are well known in the areas they serve have run into trouble with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA).Sweet Springs in West Virginia and Girard Spring in Rhode Island received "Warning Letters" from FDA in January that found problems with both "SweetSommer" and "Girard" natural spring waters...

Daniele Recall Spreads To Canada

Posted on January 27, 2010
With some precision, the Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) warned the public north of the border not to eat certain Daniele Inc. brand salami products because they may be contaminated with Salmonella.In the United States, Daniele has recalled 1.24 million pounds of salami products because they might be involved in an outbreak of Salmonella Montevideo that has sickened 187 in 39 states...

Main Stream Media Focuses on Food Safety

Posted on January 27, 2010
After months of newspapers, blogs, and food safety experts raising flags about the dilapidated food safety system, cable news has piped into the food safety discussion more than usual in 2010.Recent cable news coverage--on CNN, CBS, and ABC--has followed a series of high profile newspaper articles on school lunch safety, ammoniated beef, airport food safety, E...

Food Safety's Biggest Challenge: The American Diet

Posted on January 27, 2010
Americans are rightly concerned about the wide variety of pathogens that regularly turn up in foods common to most diets. Who wouldn't appropriately worry about an array of bugs that can induce serious short-term and even long-term health impacts from a wide spectrum of what Americans eat on a regular basis? But the bigger worry ought to be about the non-contaminated foods we build our diets around that have been implicated in many of the leading causes of death for Americans...

Salmonella Suit Filed Against Salami Maker

Posted on January 27, 2010
The first lawsuit has been filed in the Daniele International, Inc. recall of 1,240,000 pounds of sausage products due to potential Salmonella contamination. The claim was filed on behalf of an Illinois family by Marler Clark, the Seattle-based food safety law firm, and by Gary Newman of the Illinois firm Newland, Newland, & Newland...

Advocates, Meat Industry OK FSIS Pick

Posted on January 27, 2010
Consumer advocates and meat industry representatives responded to the Obama Administration's announcement Tuesday, naming Dr. Elisabeth Hagen to be Under Secretary of Food Safety at the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), with a tepid seal of approval...

Pepper Suspected in Salmonella Outbreak

Posted on January 26, 2010
Pepper does not have much of a "rap sheet." The world's most common spice, however, is a suspect in the current Salmonella Montevideo outbreak.And pepper has some history when it comes to food safety. Just last spring "Uncle Chen" white pepper was to be found contaminated with Salmonella after making 42 people sick in Washington, Oregon, California, and Nevada...

Salt Reduction Initiative Debated

Posted on January 26, 2010
Nobody said "hold the salt" when Sussman Volk started selling pastrami on rye sandwiches in New York City in 1887. Sussman, who converted his butcher shop into a restaurant, and Katz's Deli were among the first to base their Big Apple businesses around an inexpensive food credited to Romanian Jews...

USDA to Lift 21-Year Ban on Haggis

Posted on January 26, 2010
Last night, millions of Scots around the world raised their kilts to the legendary Scottish poet Robert Burns. January 25, or Burns Night to Scots, is a Scottish holiday more widely celebrated than Saint Andrew's Day, the official national holiday of Scotland...

Salami Investigation Takes Murky Turn

Posted on January 26, 2010
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in Atlanta Monday provided an update on its Salmonella Montevideo investigation and it took a murky turn."During January 16-21, 2010, " the update said, "CDC and public health officials in multiple states conducted an epidemiologic study by comparing foods eaten by 39 ill and 39 well persons...

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