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Last Entry: March 31, 2011 at 06:59:07

Congress Widens Egg Recall Investigation

Posted on August 26, 2010
Lawmakers are widening the scope of their investigation into the nationwide recall of over 500 million eggs. The House Energy and Commerce Committee yesterday asked both the Food and Drug Administration and the Department of Agriculture for all inspection and testing records, since 2007, related to Wright County Egg and Hillandale Farms, which are both at the center of the recall linked to at least 1,300 cases of Salmonella...

Egg Producers Distance Themselves from Recall

Posted on August 26, 2010
In the wake of the massive recall of eggs due to Salmonella contamination, small-scale and local egg producers are differentiating themselves from "Big Ag" and distancing themselves from the recall.A rule of thumb in agriculture is that when one segment of an industry suffers, another segment benefits...

Possible Hepatitis A Exposure at Westchester Deli

Posted on August 25, 2010
Westchester County, NY Health Commissioner Dr. Cheryl Archbald announced this week that customers who purchased uncooked foods or sandwiches at Delgado's Deli, otherwise known as J&D Deli & Catering, located at 173 Croton Avenue in Ossining, NY may have been exposed to Hepatitis A...

USDA Partners with Red Book on Produce Webinars

Posted on August 25, 2010
The United States Department of Agriculture's Agricultural Marketing Service has teamed up with Red Book Credit Services of Red Book University to host educational Webinars on produce issues.Participants in the Webinars will have the opportunity to ask live USDA experts for information about produce issues...

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Ammonia Leak Causes Scare at Food Facility

Posted on August 25, 2010
On Monday an ammonia leak at a refrigeration plant in Alabama caused 84 people to seek medical attention, reported Meatingplace.Millard Refrigeration Services in Theodore, Ala., freezes poultry for export. According to Millard's website, the 240,000 square foot plant has a private port and can handle 2...

DeCoster Contributions Went to Clinton in 2008

Posted on August 25, 2010
After she came in third in the Iowa caucuses, Hillary Clinton's campaign for President received contributions of $2,300 each from Peter and Alina DeCoster of Clarion.Peter and Alina are the son and daughter-in-law of Austin "Jack" DeCoster, the 5th largest egg producer in the U...

Finding STECs in an Emotional Hay Stack

Posted on August 25, 2010
I am a fan of the meat industry's efforts to identify and eliminate sources of foodborne illness. The work done to end the scourge of E. coli O157:H7 alone has tapped the best scientific minds around the world and cost millions of dollars. Processing plants have reconstructed their production lines, added costly but necessary kill steps, and changed the way the entire distribution system works...

FDA Releases Draft Calorie Labeling Rules

Posted on August 25, 2010
Tuesday the U.S. Food and Drug Administration released a preliminary draft of the restaurant menu labeling rules that will go into effect on March 23, 2011. The FDA is inviting comment from the public on the proposed rules. The agency is also inviting public recommendations to help determine the amount of time it should hold off enforcing the new rules, allowing the many companies affected to fully comply...

E. coli Outbreaks Follow Events in U.S. & Canada

Posted on August 25, 2010
With free parking and admission at just $3 for adults, folks left the Aug. 8-14 Northwestern Michigan Fair in Traverse City with a lot of good memories, except for the three who left with Shigatoxin-producing E. coli, or STEC.The Grand Traverse County Health Department said those infected began experiencing symptoms like bloody diarrhea immediately after the 102-year-old fair wrapped up its run, from Aug...

Egg Gaps Illustrate Fractured Food Safety System

Posted on August 25, 2010
Eggs Slip Through the Cracks of the Fractured Food Safety SystemDES MOINES, IA--As consumers scramble to check their egg cartons and federal officials investigate two Iowa farms at the center of half-billion egg recall, it's becoming clear that no one was overseeing egg safety in Iowa...

Jamie Oliver's Food Revolution Wins Emmy

Posted on August 24, 2010
Jamie Oliver's Food Revolution won an Emmy this past Saturday at the Creative Arts Emmy Ceremony in Hollywood. Oliver, a British celebrity chef turned health activist, has used the success of his show to publicize the launch of his petition to change the menus in public school lunch halls and reign in the obesity epidemic...

Meat Industry AntiTrust Workshop Friday in CO

Posted on August 24, 2010
Early Sunday morning in Fort Collins, CO, police got to try out their tear gas and mobile field-in-force tactics after fights broke out after a Bohemian Nights concert. Before the riot was over, fires were started, windows were smashed, and 14 people were injured...

Botulism Fears Bring Herring Recall

Posted on August 24, 2010
Brooklyn's NY Fish Inc. Monday recalled its NY Fish Brand (cold) Smoked Herring for being un-eviscerated prior to processing.The recall came after a routine inspection by the New York State Department of Agriculture and Markets Food Inspectors. No illnesses have been associated with the recall...

Zemco Recalls 380,000 Pounds Of Deli Meat

Posted on August 24, 2010
Buffalo, NY-based Zemco Industries recalled approximately 380,000 pounds of deli meat products that may be contaminated with Listeria monocytogenes, USDA's Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) announced late Monday. No illnesses have been associated with the Class 1, High Risk recall...

Second Lawsuit Filed Against Egg Producer

Posted on August 24, 2010
The Seattle law firm Marler Clark filed a second lawsuit against Quality Egg, LLC, yesterday on behalf of a victim of the nationwide Salmonella outbreak that has been linked to the company's Wright County Egg business. The lawsuit was filed on behalf of an 11-year-old California child who became ill with a Salmonella infection after consuming eggs on July 1 and 2...

Beet Growers Ask: 'What About Next Year?'

Posted on August 24, 2010
With imports cut off and sugar available for purchase only with the right ration coupon, the federal government during World War II put out a poster that said: "Plant More Sugar Beets!"Now sugar beet growers are wondering if the federal government policy for the 2011 crop year will be "Plant No Sugar Beets!"They are seeking a meeting soon; perhaps as early as this week, with U...

Half-billion Eggs Recalled, Lawmakers Want Answers

Posted on August 24, 2010
As a nationwide Salmonella outbreak linked to 550 million recalled eggs continues to unfold, key lawmakers are pressing federal regulators and the Iowa farms at the center of the recall for answers.Rep. Rosa DeLauro (D-CT), who chairs the committee that controls the purse strings of both the Food and Drug Administration and Department of Agriculture, wants to know why federal regulators did not take action against DeCoster farms in light of nearly two decades of red flags...

FDA Finds Seafood Importers have HACCP Problems

Posted on August 23, 2010
Seafood importers from Venezuela and Malaysia operating process facilities without proper Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Point (HACCP) plans recently received warning letters from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.In a July 27 warning letter released last week, Malaysia's GroPoint Fisheries was told that "serious deviations" concerning its HACCP plan means FDA must consider its tuna and Mahi Mahi fish products to be "adulterated...

Toronto McDonald's Worker has Hepatitis A

Posted on August 23, 2010
Toronto Public Health announced last week that at least one employee at the Wendy's restaurant located at 438 Nugget Ave. in Scarborough has tested positive for hepatitis A. Although the health department believes the risk to Wendy's customers is low, anyone who consumed food purchased at the Wendy's restaurant between July 26 and August 6 is asked to watch for signs of hepatitis A infection...

Marshals Raid Rat-Infested Food Warehouse

Posted on August 23, 2010
U.S. Marshals executed a federal court order to seize packaged food products by raiding a rat-infested old seed warehouse in Athens, GA that was being used by Mid-States Services Inc. to store food sold to jails and prisons last week.The Marshals collected about 1,500 cases of crackers, cookies, potato chips, and cereals valued at $859,000 under a warrant for seizure issued by the U...

Publisher's Platform

Posted on August 23, 2010
The House and Senate Agriculture and U.S. Food and Drug Administration Oversight Committees should hold joint hearings on the Salmonella egg fiasco.As I said to the Associate Press yesterday, "The history of ignoring the law makes the sickening of 1,300 and the forced recall of 550 million eggs shockingly understandable...

Russia Slowly Approving U.S. Poultry Imports

Posted on August 23, 2010
American poultry is inching closer to full Russian acceptance as a months long trade dispute drags on.Russian officials declared in January they would no longer accept imported poultry processed with chlorine, a food safety intervention widely used in the U...

Senators Want Gulf Seafood Advisory Group

Posted on August 23, 2010
U.S. Senators from the Gulf states are asking President Obama to name a Gulf Seafood Advisory Group to advise federal agencies on a menu of concerns that continues in the aftermath of the BP oil spill.Seafood industry representatives see the request as both a positive sign and one that means, "the current procedures are not effective" when it comes to the federal government working with them on the recovery...

FDA: Farms Involved with Recall Need to Clean Up

Posted on August 23, 2010
The Iowa farms behind a recall of over half a billion eggs did not have adequate food safety standards in place, U.S. Food and Drug Administration Commissioner Margaret Hamburg told CNN yesterday."There's no question these farms involved in the recall were not operating with the standards of practice that we consider responsible," said Hamburg in the interview...

Letter from the Editor: Dr. Hagen

Posted on August 22, 2010
It might exist. But I have not seen any informed speculation on why President Obama opted to make a controversial "recess" appointment of Dr. Elisabeth Hagen as the new Under Secretary for Food Safety at the U.S. Department of Agriculture.So, join me in some uniformed speculation...

Alfalfa Sprouts Recalled for Salmonella Risk

Posted on August 21, 2010
The New York State Department of Agriculture and Markets announced this week that Snow White Food Products of Brooklyn, NY, was recalling alfalfa sprouts for potential Salmonella contamination. The contamination was discovered by routine sampling and testing by the New York State Food Laboratory...

Pistachios Recalled for Salmonella

Posted on August 21, 2010
Two companies recalled pistachios for potential Salmonella contamination this week. AustiNuts Wholesale, Inc., of Manor, Texas, recalled its pistachio kernel products and GloryBee Foods, Inc., of Eugene, Oregon, recalled its Aunt Patty's brand 5 pound bags of Whole Raw Pistachios and 25 pound boxes of Specialty Commodities brand Whole Raw Pistachios Kernels after the companies' supplier, California Delights, Inc...

Egg Recall Grows to 550 Million

Posted on August 21, 2010
Another Iowa producer Friday recalled a massive amount of eggs--this latest recall is for 170 million eggs sold under several brand names in at least 14 states.Hillandale Farms of Iowa said the recalled eggs were sold under Hillandale Farms, Sunny Farms and Sunny Meadow brand names...

More Mamey Pulp Recalled over Typhoid Outbreak

Posted on August 21, 2010
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration yesterday issued an update on the nationwide recall of frozen mamey fruit pulp for Salmonella Typhi contamination yesterday, adding a second company's frozen mamey pulp product to the list of foods recalled this week...

Salmonella Linked to Pickles in Illinois

Posted on August 20, 2010
Officials at the Cook County Department of Public Health are investigating an outbreak of Salmonella Newport linked to the Assi Market, an Asian foods market in Niles, Illinois.There are currently six lab-confirmed cases, five of which required hospitalization...

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