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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

Agreement Reached on Senate Food Safety Bill

Posted on August 11, 2010
The Senate has reached a "tentative agreement" on the pending safety bill and staff will be briefed on the language Thursday, a staffer told The Hill yesterday. The Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee is expected to release the manager's package and a Congressional Budget Office score, according to The Hill...

Report on Health Impacts of Oil Spill Issued

Posted on August 11, 2010
How will the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico impact human health? The short answer: we don't know. At the direction of Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius, the Institute of Medicine recently held a workshop on the health effects of the Gulf oil spill...

Transformer Candies Recalled for Lead

Posted on August 10, 2010
On Friday the California Department of Public Health released a statement warning the public not to consume Trans Formers 'Revenge of the Fallen" Crunchy Candies. This statement follows a random test the agency performed that came back showing lead levels over twice California's legal limit...

Bountiful Bend Trail Mix Recalled for Nuts

Posted on August 10, 2010
Indiana's South Bend Chocolate Company Monday recalled 174 one-pound bags of Bountiful Blend--mixed nuts and dried fruits--because they contain undeclared cashews, almonds, pecans, and Brazil nuts. People who have an allergy or severe sensitivity to cashews, pecans, almonds or Brazil nuts run the risk of serious or life-threatening allergic reaction if they consume this product...

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New Test Detects Melamine in Milk Products

Posted on August 10, 2010
This week Chinese scientists funded by the Chinese Ministry of Health announced in the peer-reviewed Talanta journal that they have developed a quick and simple color change test to detect melamine in milk products.Scientists began working on developing a test after the contaminated milk scandal in 2008, when milk powder tainted with melamine sickened an estimated 300,000 people and killed six children...

The Who's Who of Food Safety on Twitter

Posted on August 10, 2010
According to a recent survey, food safety was the most memorable food story in the media last year. Meanwhile, with over 100 million users and 2 billion "tweets" per quarter, Twitter is taking the social media landscape by force. Unsurprisingly, there's a lot of discussion about the food system in the 140-character "twitterverse...

Colorado Restaurant Patrons Exposed to Hepatitis A

Posted on August 10, 2010
Last week the Public Health Department of Grand County, Colorado announced that a local food worker had tested positive for Hepatitis A. The worker prepared food at two local restaurants, Max and T's as well as Sagebrush BBQ and Grill. "Both restaurants have had very good records of inspections in the past and both are cooperating in the investigation...

Manipulating Mankind

Posted on August 10, 2010
"There is something fascinating about science. One gets such wholesale returns of conjecture out of such a trifling investment of fact." -- Mark TwainIf only Mark Twain were alive today, he would have a field day commenting on what the U.S...

Quote Stirs Debate Over Brazilian Meat Safety

Posted on August 10, 2010
Al Almanza, the top administrator at the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Food Safety and Inspection Service, was quoted Monday in Food Chemical News saying that misuse of Ivermectin, a broad-based antiparasitic animal drug, is a "systematic problem" in Brazil...

White House, Saints Give Gulf Seafood a Boost

Posted on August 10, 2010
The New Orleans Saints and the Obama administration tried to boost the battered Gulf seafood image yesterday during a ceremony to honor the team's Superbowl victory.As federal and local waters reopen to fishing, the region's seafood industry is struggling to convince the public that seafood from the region is safe in the wake of the worst domestic oil spill in history...

FDA, OSHA Come Down on Kosher Salad Maker

Posted on August 09, 2010
A maker of kosher salads in New York State is finding itself in trouble with two federal regulatory agencies.U.F.S. Industries Inc., doing business as Sally Sherman Foods, received a July 21 warning letter from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration and then learned it faces a $247,000 fine from the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) largely for failure to correct hazards inside its Mount Vernon facility...

Cows Fed Wine Make Tasty Beef

Posted on August 09, 2010
There is a new type of gourmet beef steadily gathering dedicated fans throughout the meat market. Last November Canadian cattle ranchers began feeding red wine to their herds, and the product has been met with thunderous applause from everyone from regular consumers to top Canadian chefs...

New Study Recommends Overhaul of FDA

Posted on August 09, 2010
A new study highlights the need for revamping the aging U.S. Food and Drug Agency, the organization in charge of monitoring the safety of 80 percent of the U.S. food supply. The 500-page study was requested by Congress in order to pinpoint the ways in which gaping holes in the efficiency of the FDA can be filled...

Wedding Bell Blues

Posted on August 09, 2010
No one wants the 'Wedding Bell Blues.' [1]My son is getting married in mid-August, and the related preparations are starting to pick up a sense of greater urgency. I have been instructed not to interfere. Accordingly, I had a bit of time to follow up on the related morbid question that occurred to me; generally, what is the available CDC published data associating foodborne illness outbreaks with wedding celebrations?The first relatively recent reference addressed an outbreak in Fayette County, Kentucky...

How Salmonella Rissen Came to America

Posted on August 09, 2010
A strain of Salmonella commonly found in Thailand found its way to the United States in late 2008 and early in 2009 on the back of imported white pepper popular with Asians. When it was all over, Salmonella Rissen--a serotype rarely found in the USA--would take the life of one person and cause infections in nearly 100 others in five states...

Survey Shows Parents Need Food Safety Education

Posted on August 09, 2010
Last month, food safety expert Cindy Rice-Andrea presented the results of her Parent Food Safety Knowledge and Practice survey at the United States Department of Agriculture Food Safety Conference in Atlanta. Rice-Andrea, president of Dining in the Light, Inc...

New Food Safety Program in India

Posted on August 09, 2010
As India prepares to host the international Commonwealth Games this fall, the country is ramping up its food safety standards. A program called the "Safe Food Destination" has begun educating local restaurants and vendors about modern food safety standards and techniques...

Taco Bell Sued over Salmonella

Posted on August 09, 2010
Georgetown, Kentucky, resident Jo Anne Smith filed a Salmonella lawsuit against Yum Brands, the parent company of Taco Bell, Friday. Since mid-April, at least 155 people who have purchased food from Taco Bell locations in 21 states have become infected with Salmonella Hartford or Salmonella Baildon...

Letter From The Editor: IAFP

Posted on August 08, 2010
The publisher wanted one of us to attend last week's meetings of the International Association for Food Protection at the Anaheim Convention Center near Disneyland. I decided to go myself and "take one for the team," hoping this was a group that has a couple of meetings in the morning and then adjourns for pool time...

Two Workers Killed By Egg Barn

Posted on August 07, 2010
Two construction workers were killed Wednesday while repairing a chicken barn in Ohio. Three other workers escaped with minor injuries. High winds were estimated at up to 70 miles per hour. In total, three 15-year-old barns made of cinder blocks and metal roofs collapsed on the workers...

6-Month Old Beef Recalled: Check Your Freezer

Posted on August 07, 2010
A one million pound recall of ground beef contaminated with E. coli O157:H7 associated with an outbreak in California may have come too late to do much good.Still, USDA's Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) is concerned that some of the meat might still be lurking in home or commercial freezers...

Marky's Recalls Under Processed Italian Truffles

Posted on August 06, 2010
Miami-based Optimus Inc., doing business as "Marky's," has recalled Eugenio Brezzi Truffle Puree products imported from Italy. Consumers in possession of any of these products should return it for a full refund to the retail outlet where it was purchased...

More Merrick Pet Food Recalled For Salmonella

Posted on August 06, 2010
Possible Salmonella contamination has prompted Merrick Pet Care Inc. to add 83 additional cases of its "Texas Hold'ems" Beef Filet Squares for Dogs to an ongoing recall.The first recall of the 10 oz "Beef Filet Squares for Dogs" came last month. The item number for the recall is 60016, and the lot numbers are 10084TL7 with a best buy date of March 24, 2012; and in the expanded recall, 10127 with a best by date of May 6, 2016...

Canned Meatball Products Recalled

Posted on August 06, 2010
The U.S. Department of Agriculture's Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) announced that Ugo. DiLullo & Sons., an establishment in Westville, N.J., recalled approximately 147,667 pounds of canned meatball products as they contain egg, which is not declared on the label...

Food Standards Agency Issues Seaweed Warning

Posted on August 06, 2010
The British Food Standards Agency released an article today warning consumers not to eat a particular type of seaweed. Hijiki seaweed has been found to contain remarkably high levels of inorganic arsenic, a chemical element that is known to greatly increase risk of cancer...

Taco Bell Source of Salmonella

Posted on August 06, 2010
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Washington State Department of Health confirmed yesterday that food served at Taco Bell restaurants is the source of Salmonella Hartford and Baildon outbreaks. At least 155 people in 21 states have been confirmed with salmonellosis and are part of the outbreak...

Listeria Strikes More Ethnic, Low Income Women

Posted on August 06, 2010
Pregnant women who come from ethnic backgrounds and low-income areas have a higher risk of infection from listeria food poisoning, according to research for the United Kingdom's Health Protection Agency.The findings are contained in two studies published in the recent edition of Eurosurveillance...

USDA to Mandate Test and Hold

Posted on August 06, 2010
The U.S. Department of Agriculture will soon withhold the stamp of inspection until test samples come back negative, an agency official announced at the National Meat Association's conference in Bellevue, Washington yesterday. Kenneth Petersen, assistant administrator of the Office of Field Operations for USDA's Food Safety and Inspection Service, said the agency will issue a Federal Register notice on the matter within the next two to three months...

Landmark Child Nutrition Bill Clears Senate

Posted on August 06, 2010
The Senate unanimously approved child nutrition reauthorization yesterday, a big step forward for a bill fighting for time amidst a busy legislative agenda. The Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act reauthorizes federal child nutrition programs, sets nutritional standards for all food sold in schools, and increases the reimbursement rate for the first time in over three decades, by approximately 6 cents a meal...

The Controversial Seafood 'Sniff Test'

Posted on August 05, 2010
The government has reported that the "sniff test" is an important part of determining whether seafood is safe to eat. Officials say that the scientists doing the sniffing are specially trained to detect the scent of both oil and dispersant. But the sniff method has been raising doubts even among those whose livelihoods depend on restoring national confidence in gulf seafood...

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