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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

Obama Nominates Under Secretary for Food Safety

Posted on January 26, 2010
The White House announced yesterday that President Obama intends to nominate Dr. Elisabeth Hagen as the U.S. Department of Agriculture's (USDA's) Under Secretary for Food Safety, a post charged with overseeing the safety of meat, poultry and egg products at the agency's Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS), which has been leaderless for over a year...

Hong Kong Moves Against Preservatives

Posted on January 25, 2010
Sulphur dioxide, benzoic acid, and sorbic acid are preservatives commonly used in preserving fruits and vegetables.Because of recent instances of excessive preservatives being detected in samples of dried fruits and pickled vegetables, the Hong Kong Food and Environmental Hygiene Department's Centre for Food Safety (CFS) decided to take a closer look...

Global Food Safety Meeting in DC Next Week

Posted on January 25, 2010
Over 500 food safety experts from more than 40 countries will meet in Washington, DC next week for the Global Food Safety Conference, an event planned by the Global Food Safety Initiative (GFSI).The conference, which will be held February 3 through 5, a few blocks from the White House, will host food retailers and manufacturers, public health officials, and academics to discuss a wide variety of food safety issues...

Outbreak Builds Case For Traceability

Posted on January 25, 2010
The 1.25 million pound salami recall by Daniele Inc. and the associated outbreak was not on the table at last week's Traceability Interoperability Summit in Denver.It did not become public until the weekend, when summit participants were on the way to their homes in the U...

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Canadian Court Gives Vet House Arrest

Posted on January 24, 2010
A Canadian veterinarian is now under house arrest for making false written statements.The Ontario Court of Justice in Woodstock found Dr. Brian Hill guilty of a global count of violating section 35(1) of Canada's Health of Animals Act.Dr. Hill received a 12-month conditional sentence, which is resulting in nine months of house arrest...

Vietnam: No Need for Food Safety Committee

Posted on January 24, 2010
The Vietnam National Assembly Standing Committee rejected Minister of Health Nguyen Quoc Trieu's proposal to set up a National Committee for Food Safety last week. The proposed committee would have been made up of officials from related ministries within the Vietnamese government...

Letter From The Editor: Traceability

Posted on January 24, 2010
If I had spent any more time at the Traceability Interoperability Summit in Denver, my head would have exploded.Having so many smart people gathered in one place--all with solutions to the same problem--does that to me. I think it's fair to say that the "food safety community" has not appreciated how complex it is to make food traceable up and down the supply chain...

Is American Meat Unsafe or is this a Trade War?

Posted on January 24, 2010
Is "Made in the U.S.A." safe? Or, is this a trade war?When I was a kid in the early 1960s, I recall that "Made in Japan" meant cheap, but also sub-par in quality. Interesting how that has changed (compare Japanese made cars to those made in the U...

Briefing on Industrial Farming Now Online

Posted on January 24, 2010
On December 17, 2009, the Pew Campaign on Human Health and Industrial Farming and U.S. Representative Raul M. Grijalva (D-AZ), Co-Chair of the Congressional Progressive Caucus, hosted a briefing on Capitol Hill focused on the public health and sociological effects of industrial animal production on communities...

Oregon Hazelnut Recalls Make FDA Report

Posted on January 23, 2010
The latest Enforcement Report from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) issued Jan. 20, is notable for a couple of reasons. First, it covers the details of only one manufacturer recalling product because it used the Peanut Corporation of America for ingredients...

Australia Gets Fix for Tomato Problem

Posted on January 23, 2010
Food Standards Australia New Zealand (FSANZ) is seeking public comment on an urgent amendment to the Food Standard Code to protect public health and safety.The proposed measures would require traceability and processing requirements of semi-dried tomatoes and ingredients...

Haitian Food Supply Vulnerable

Posted on January 23, 2010
The aftermath of the earthquake in Haiti is a powerful example of how the breakdown of a nation's local food system and its reliance on food imports has made international trade and subsidies necessary year-round and has crippled the nation's own disaster response...

Chicken Pot Pies Recalled

Posted on January 23, 2010
The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) announced Wednesday that Park 100 Foods, Inc. of Kokomo, Ind., was recalling approximately 19,200 pounds of frozen chicken pot pie products due to possible contamination with foreign contaminants. Park 100 Foods initiated the recall after Market Day received a customer complaint regarding the product...

FDA: Caffeine and Alcohol Don't Mix

Posted on January 23, 2010
It's been almost two months since top federal regulators threatened to ban caffeinated alcoholic drinks, and manufacturers of these beverages have hardly blinked. In a statement issued on November 13, 2009, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) told nearly 30 manufacturers of the drinks that they had 30 days to prove combining alcohol and caffeine wasn't dangerous or it would "take appropriate action to ensure that the products are removed from the marketplace...

38 State Salmonella Montevideo Outbreak

Posted on January 23, 2010
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is collaborating with public health officials in many states, the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS), and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to investigate a multistate outbreak of Salmonella serotype Montevideo infections...

USDA Reaches Out To Small Meat Producers

Posted on January 22, 2010
As part of the U.S. Department of Agriculture's (USDA's) "Know Your Farmer, Know Your Food" effort to "create new economic opportunities by better connecting consumers with local producers," the agency's Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) hosted two outreach seminars this week on mobile slaughter units to help small meat producers process slaughter and process their animals...

WY: Panel Concerned About Food Safety

Posted on January 22, 2010
Members of the Wyoming Governor's Council on Food Safety are planning to send letters to Gov. Dave Freudenthal and legislators cautioning against an expansion of the cottage food exemption during the legislative session scheduled to begin on Feb. 8. This will be the third session in which the council will address problems related to cottage foods--foods prepared in home kitchens--in a bill sponsored by Rep...

Group Works On Traceability In Denver

Posted on January 22, 2010
Summit meetings are usually successful if the right people choose to attend, and by that measure the Traceability Interoperability Summit that ends today in Denver has achieved at least one of its goals. Traceability Institute LLC, based in Colorado Springs, CO and Brussels, Belgium, pulled the summit together with a "Who's Who" on a subject that could make a big contribution to world food safety...

E. coli Victim Sues Manufacturer

Posted on January 22, 2010
The first E. coli O157:H7 claim against National Steak and Poultry (NSP), an Oklahoma meat manufacturing facility, was filed yesterday in the Third Judicial District Court of Salt Lake City. Marler Clark, the Seattle-based foodborne illness law firm, and Dustin Lance and Jared Faerber of The Lance Firm, P...

Ruling Could Hinder Food Safety Reform

Posted on January 22, 2010
The U.S. Supreme Court's decision to overturn campaign finance restrictions on corporate and union election spending yesterday left health, food, and agriculture activists worried about future reform efforts in the context of an inevitable influx of corporate cash in the political process...

WSU Holds Public Lecture on Food Safety

Posted on January 21, 2010
On January 19, faculty members at Washington State University (WSU) held a public lecture on food safety titled "Safe to Eat?: The Science, Politics, and Economics of Food from Farm to Fork."The lecture was first presented in December in Seattle as part of WSU "Innovator" lecture series highlighting the university's research achievements and promoting informed discussion...

Pins, Needles, and Buttons Found In Food

Posted on January 21, 2010
The Oakridge Calgary Co-op Grocery Store had to close briefly and now has expand a recall it began Monday after finding food on its shelves was tampered with.The Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) and Calgary Co-operative Association Ltd. are warning the public not to consume bulk buns and loaves, bulk food items, packaged cheeses and refrigerated juices purchased at the store located at the Oakridge Centre store...

Monsanto Appeal goes to Supreme Court

Posted on January 21, 2010
Farmers who were not already using Monsanto's Roundup Ready alfalfa seeds have not been able to purchase them since a 2007 injunction went into effect.But after losing at the U.S. District Court and the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, both based in San Francisco, Monsanto won a cherished writ of certiorari from the Supreme Court...

Food Safety iPhone Apps: Clean Eats

Posted on January 21, 2010
After reviewing several food safety-related iPhone applications, we've found our favorite: Clean Eats. iPhone applications have quite a bit to offer on the food front. If you're in St. Louis and you must know where the closest Filipino restaurant is, iWant, Urban Spoon, or Yelp applications can help you in a jiffy...

Grocers Pulling Hash Browns

Posted on January 20, 2010
In a quiet but systematic way some of the nation's largest grocery store chains are pulling hash browns from the shelves of their freezer cases because they might be contaminated with Listeria monocytogenes.One state inspection apparently turned up the Listeria problem in hash browns...

Taiwan: Pickled, Dried Food Fails Tests

Posted on January 20, 2010
Public health officials in Taiwan found that nearly 30 percent of dried fruit and pickled vegetables found in grocery stores fail to meat local food safety standards, often due to excessive levels of additives.The Taipei City Government Department of Health conducted random inspections of 97 products sold in various markets, including the Dihua Street Commercial Circle in Taipei City...

Letter: Trans Fat Commentary Misses Mark

Posted on January 20, 2010
Matt Cheung's uninformed article (Banning Trans Fats--How Important Is It?, Jan. 16) has no place in Food Safety News, unless the latter now has a fiction section.Mr. Cheung questions whether it makes sense for states to be devoting resources to banning artificial trans fat from restaurants...

Mystery Outbreak Hits Block in WI Town

Posted on January 20, 2010
Parents of four Wisconsin children who've been fighting bacterial diseases since December want somebody to solve what some there are calling the Grand Avenue mystery. The four children live side-by-side and kitty corner from one another in a one-block area of Grand Street in the Village of Belgium located about 40 miles north of Milwaukee...

DeLauro Calls for Panel to Review FSIS

Posted on January 20, 2010
After learning of the recent recall 390 tons of beef for E. coli contamination, U.S. Representative Rosa DeLauro (D-CT), a longtime proponent of stronger food safety laws, called for the creation of an independent science board to review the U.S. Department of Agriculture's (USDA's) efforts to protect public health...

Study Links GM Corn to Organ Damage

Posted on January 20, 2010
A recent study analyzing the effects of genetically modified (GM) foods on mammalian health found that corn produced by the multinational corporation Monsanto is linked to organ damage in rats.The study, which was published in the December 2009 issue of International Journal of Microbiology, was conducted over a 90-day period, in which select groups of rats were fed the three main commercialized GM corn - Mon 863, insecticide-producing Mon 810, and Roundup herbicide-absorbing NK 603...

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