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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

Under-processed Canned Meat and Poultry Recalled

Posted on November 05, 2010
In what is the 58th recall of the year involving meat and poultry, just over 12,000 pounds of under-processed meat and poultry products were recalled late Thursday by Seward, IL-based Eickman's Processing.No illnesses have yet been associated with the recalled products...

Unpasteurized Cider Recalled in Maryland

Posted on November 05, 2010
Baugher's Orchard and Farm of Westminster, MD. has issued a voluntary recall of all its apple cider because of possible contamination.The unpasteurized cider is being investigated by the Maryland Department of Health and Mental Hygiene as a possible source of seven E...

FDA Releases Inspection Form 483 for SanGar Plant

Posted on November 05, 2010
Another day brings more bad news for still-closed SanGar Fresh Cut Produce. This time it was the release of the FDA Form 483 report containing observations of the federal food safety inspectors who were in the San Antonio produce distribution plant from Oct...

Florida Fisheries Reports Histamine Injuries

Posted on November 05, 2010
Florida's Beaver Street Fisheries Inc, based in Jacksonville Thursday recalled its 5-7 lb Tuna Loins (Lot 928378) because they have the potential to be contaminated with elevated levels of histamine. High levels of histamine can produce an allergic reaction called scombroid poisoning when the fish is consumed, and some of its customers are reporting those symptoms...

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Warning About Chemical in Chicken and Pot Pies

Posted on November 05, 2010
A Thrifty Foods Store in British Columbia sold barbecue chicken and pot pies on Nov. 1 that were possibility contaminated with an unknown chemical.Since Nov. 2, the Canadian Food Inspection Agency has been warning the public not to consume the products, which include:Thrifty Foods Barbecue whole chicken...

Obama to Use Elite Team of Food Tasters in India

Posted on November 05, 2010
The Indian government is adding an extra layer of security to the food for President Obama's visit to this weekend. In addition to the normal presidential food safety protocols, which presumably include Secret Service agent-chefs to taste test food, Indian media reported yesterday that an elite team of food tasters will assist with the job...

Costco-Linked E. coli Cheese Outbreak Sickens 25

Posted on November 05, 2010
More than two dozen people have been infected by an E. coli O157:H7 outbreak that is being preliminarily blamed on cheese that was sold and offered in free samples by Costco.A public health warning was issued late Thursday by the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta, the U...

SF Sets Nutritional Standards for Meals with Toys

Posted on November 04, 2010
Calling it a modest step with enormous implications, San Francisco Supervisor Eric Mar urged the city's other supervisors to place new restrictions on the use of toys to promote fast food meals to children. While city residents lined up in the basement of City Hall to cast their own ballots in the mid-term elections Tuesday, two floors up the supervisors voted 8-3 in favor of the measure...

Organic Beer Must Soon Be Made with Organic Hops

Posted on November 04, 2010
The National Organic Standards Board, the advisory panel to the U.S. Department of Agriculture on federal organic regulations, has recommended that organic beer be brewed with organic hops by 2013.This board's unanimous vote on Oct. 28 was a victory for organic hops growers and others, who had petitioned for the change in the USDA National Organic Program's National List of Allowed and Prohibited Substances...

Health Alert Expanded for N.Y. Gourmet Salads Inc.

Posted on November 04, 2010
USDA's Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) late Wednesday expanded its Oct. 30 public health alert for an undetermined amount of various meat and poultry products produced without the benefit of federal inspection by Brooklyn's N.Y. Gourmet Salads Inc...

More Lead Found in Imported Plum Candy

Posted on November 04, 2010
Consumers are being warned not to eat Ego Sour Plum candy imported from China after tests conducted by the California Department of Public Health (CDPH) found unacceptable levels of lead. Anyone who has the candy should discard it immediately, the CDPH said Wednesday...

Issa Says Food Safety Oversight is a Priority

Posted on November 04, 2010
After the midterm GOP sweep of the House of Representatives, soon-to-be chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Rep. Darrell Issa (R-CA) said food safety will be among the priorities for his committee.Issa, widely feared by Democrats for what many predict will be an onslaught of subpoenas and politically motivated investigations of the Obama administration, told MSNBC Wednesday that he'll focus instead on reforming the bureaucracy...

Florida Growers Develop Food Safety Standards

Posted on November 04, 2010
Florida citrus growers will give the U.S. Food and Drug Administration a good agricultural practices document that demonstrates how the industry is working to assure that the fruit they pack is safe. In a proactive move, the Indian River Citrus League, the Florida Citrus Packers Inc...

Peer-reviewed Study Looks at BPA in U.S. Food

Posted on November 04, 2010
The first peer-reviewed study to look at bisphenol A in U.S. fresh food, canned food, and food in plastic packaging was published this week, adding some solid science to a discussion that has become increasingly emotional.The study, published online in the journal Environmental Science & Technology, measured BPA levels in 105 fresh and canned foods, and foods sold in plastic packaging, as well as in cat and dog foods in cans and plastic packaging...

FDA Confirms Texas Findings: Listeria At SanGar

Posted on November 04, 2010
As SanGar Fresh Cut Produce in San Antonio enters a third week of being closed by order of the Texas Department of State Health, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has found more evidence of contamination in the processed celery and inside the plant...

Possible Risk in Red Yeast Rice for Cholesterol

Posted on November 03, 2010
The same researchers who said red yeast rice can lower LDL cholesterol are now advising the millions of people who use this alternative therapy to be careful.In a study published Oct. 25 in Archives of Internal Medicine, the authors said they found wide variations in the amounts of monacolins, the active ingredients identical to cholesterol-inhibiting lovastatin, in the red yeast rice samples they tested...

High Neomycin Levels Found in Vermont Veal Calves

Posted on November 03, 2010
The prescription animal drug Neomycin is an antibiotic. It kills bacteria rapidly by suppressing protein synthesis and growth.The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) tolerance level is 7.2 parts per million (PPM) for neomycin in the kidneys of cattle...

Pests Invade Minnesota Packaged Food Warehouse

Posted on November 03, 2010
The owner of a packaged food warehouse has yet to provide documentation or photographs of improvements made to his building since the U.S. Food and Drug Administration's (FDA's) summer inspection found serious violations.In an Oct. 26 warning letter, FDA told the owner of Bay Island Inc...

California Mussels Quarantine Lifted

Posted on November 03, 2010
California's annual quarantine on sport-harveted ocean mussels ended at midnight Oct. 31, the California Department of Health (CDPH) announced.A sampling of mussels confirmed that shellfish-borne paralytic shellfish poisoning (PSP) toxins, as well as domoic acid, remained at safe or undetectable levels -- with the exception of the northern Channel Islands region (which includes Anacapa, Santa Cruz, Santa Rosa and San Miguel islands)...

Takeover May Cool House Passion for Food Safety

Posted on November 03, 2010
Full-blown hearings before Congress's most powerful investigative panel--like those held after the nationwide spinach, peanut, and egg outbreaks, complete with victim testimony and the occasional food-industry executive citing his Fifth Amendment rights---will still take place after Tuesday's elections...

Ted Turner Bison Herd Infected with Brucellosis

Posted on November 03, 2010
Ted Turner's 4,600 head of Bison on his Flying D Ranch has a Brucellosis problem, according to the Montana State Veterinarian.The bacteria disease has been absent from domestic herds in Montana for the past two years, but has been confirmed in a 7-year old Bison cow and is suspected in two other animals in the Turner herd...

Election Unlikely to Change S. 510 Fate in Senate

Posted on November 03, 2010
Though Republicans gained control of the House of Representatives, Democrats maintained narrow control of the Senate in Tuesday's midterm election, a reality that will likely not impact the fate of the pending FDA Food Safety Modernization Act slated for a cloture vote during the lame duck session in November...

China Rejects Shipment of GMO Corn

Posted on November 02, 2010
China rejected a shipment of U.S. corn late last week after officials learned that it contained an unsanctioned strain of the genetically modified commodity. The action, which would be the country's first refusal of U.S. corn, could further strain U.S...

Missouri Dairy Defies Order on Raw Milk Cheese

Posted on November 02, 2010
Missouri Attorney General Chris Koster has sought a court order to force the destruction of raw milk cheese at a farm in the Ozarks, but the owners of the Morningland Dairy dispute whether their cheese is contaminated.The cheese standoff began in June, following a raid in California of Rawesome Foods...

Honolulu Restaurant with E. Coli Past Closes

Posted on November 02, 2010
Some restaurants never recover from a run-in with E. coli O157:H7.Peppa's Korean Barbeque on King Street is Honolulu is the latest example of a restaurant failing several months after going through a temporary closure during an E. coli outbreak.Hawaiian health officials closed Peppa's last April after the restaurant was linked to an E...

Guidelines for Safely Processing Wild Game

Posted on November 02, 2010
With the 2010 hunting season under way, the Michigan Departments of Agriculture (MDA) and Natural Resources (DNRE) have issued a press release reminding hunters and retail food establishments to follow safe handling guidelines when processing wild game...

Did Haiti Cholera Strain Originate in South Asia?

Posted on November 02, 2010
Public health authorities are furiously working to contain and understand the origins of a cholera outbreak in Haiti that has killed more than 300 people and hospitalized almost 5,000. Monday, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control shed light on how the food- and water-borne bacteria, which is not historically found in Haiti, may have spread to the earthquake-ravaged country...

Students Still Get Too Many Sugary Beverages

Posted on November 02, 2010
Children continue to have easy access at school to sugary sodas and flavored milk, according to a study published Monday in the online Archives of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine.The national study by the University of Illinois at Chicago was based on surveys mailed to a representative sample of elementary school administrators over three academic years, from 2008 through 2009...

Produce Guidelines Urge, Don't Require Compliance

Posted on November 02, 2010
In the ongoing quest to improve food safety, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration is asking for comments on its proposed guidelines aimed at minimizing food-safety hazards in fresh-cut fruit and vegetables.The call for comments, along with information about the guidelines, was published in the Federal Register on Oct...

NOAA, FDA Add Test for Dispersant in Gulf Seafood

Posted on November 01, 2010
A second test to detect in seafood traces of the dispersants used to clean up the Deepwater Horizon-BP oil spill has been added by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, according to the FDA.This chemical analysis, along with sensory testing, should help strengthen consumer confidence in Gulf seafood, said FDA Commissioner Dr...

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