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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

UK Issues Warning on Red Meat Link to Bowel Cancer

Posted on February 26, 2011
For the first time, the UK Department of Health on Friday advised people who eat a lot of red and processed meat to consider cutting down to about 3 oz. to help reduce the risk of bowel cancer.The warning follows a new report, from the independent expert Scientific Advisory Committee on Nutrition (SACN)...

Virginia Company Recalls Whole Chickens

Posted on February 26, 2011
New Market Poultry in Virginia is recalling approximately 3,339 pounds of ice-packed, whole chicken products that may be adulterated due to leaking cooler condensate, the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) announced Friday...

Purdue Scientists Dispute Anti-GMO Claims

Posted on February 26, 2011
Purdue University scientists are questioning recent statements by groups opposed to the use of genetically modified (GM) crops, specifically that glyphosate use and Roundup Ready technology are impacting the health of plants, animals and possibly humans...

Marshals Seize Food at Tennessee Cheese Store

Posted on February 25, 2011
U.S. Marshals Thursday seized about $200,000 worth of food products from the Bedford Cheese Store in Shelbyville, TN, after U.S. Food and Drug Administration investigators said they found evidence of rodents throughout the company's facility.According to an agency news release, an FDA inspection found rodent feces, rodent hair, rodent nesting material, and building defects that could allow rodents and other pests to enter food storage and other areas...

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Newark Company Agreed to Destroy Soy Products

Posted on February 25, 2011
A soybean sprout processing facility in Newark was found contaminated with filth and pathogens, a Feb. 10 warning letter from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) says.FDA released the warning letter to the public this week. It shows that Global Protein Food Inc...

California Company Recalls Imported Frozen Fish

Posted on February 25, 2011
A California company is recalling imported frozen fish--Shishamo Roe Capelin--because of its potential to be contaminated with Clostridium botulinum.The recall by Pacific American Fish Co, Inc. of Vernon, CA was prompted by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration's regulation that salt-cured, uneviscerated fish must not be more than than 5 inches in length...

Salad Caused Japan School Lunch Outbreak

Posted on February 25, 2011
Green salad with broccoli was what made more than 1,500 school students, teachers and staff members sick earlier this month in Iwaizawa, on Japan's northern island of Hokkaido.The Hokkaido Prefectural Government said Wednesday that broccoli salads prepared at the city's central school kitchen on Feb...

Stabenow Outlines Approach for 2012 Farm Bill

Posted on February 25, 2011
Senator Debbie Stabenow (D-MI), the new chair of the Senate Agriculture Committee is urging the agriculture community to focus on "principles, not programs" as they begin working on the all-important farm bill this year."We should start with principles that will guide us as we evaluate what works and what doesn't in today's economy to address the unique challenges facing our farmers today and into the future," said in Stabenow, in her remarks before audience of agriculture policy makers and industry representatives at the USDA 2011 Outlook Forum in Arlington, Virginia on Thursday...

Scientist's Letter Raises Roundup Concerns

Posted on February 25, 2011
A veteran soil scientist wrote a letter to U.S. Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack warning of what he says is a newly identified pathogen linked to the herbicide Roundup that might be implicated in livestock fertility problems, as well as diseased corn and soybean crops...

Flood of Comments to FDA on Antibiotics Draft

Posted on February 25, 2011
When the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) released draft guidelines for the judicious use of antimicrobials in food animals last June, the agency welcomed a flood of input from individuals and organizations during a 60-day commenting period.Still under review several months later, the 531 comments submitted to the FDA underscore a debate that weighs the food safety and economic benefits of antibiotics against the wider medical threats stemming from their extensive use...

NSF Opens Shanghai Food Safety Testing Lab

Posted on February 24, 2011
NSF International, a global not-for-profit public health and product safety organization, opened a lab in Shanghai this week to expand testing and certification services to China--and they could use the help.The news of the lab broke just as Time picked up a South China Morning Post report that millions of acres of agricultural land and 12 million tons of Chinese grain are contaminated with heavy metal pollution...

Bill to Exempt Illinois Farmers Markets Advances

Posted on February 24, 2011
State Rep. Chapin Rose, a 38-year-old lawyer representing the rural area around Charleston, IL, is a man on a mission.Starting his fifth term in the Illinois Assembly, the Republican lawmaker wants pictures on food stamp cards, only one license plate per car, and no state or local regulation of farmers markets...

More Going On at Snow White Than First Reported

Posted on February 24, 2011
When the environment for growing alfalfa sprouts goes badly, more dangerous pathogens than just the one can grow. That's what may have happened last summer at Snow White Food Products in Brooklyn, NY. There was a recall last August after the New York Department of Agriculture and Markets discovered, during routine sampling and testing, possible Salmonella contamination...

Most U.S. Antibiotics Go to Animal Agriculture

Posted on February 24, 2011
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration confirmed numbers this week that indicate animal agriculture consumes 80 percent of all antibiotics used in the United States, more than previously estimated.Congresswoman Louise Slaughter (D-NY) announced Wednesday that FDA confirmed the numbers with her office for the first time...

FDA Approves Test to Detect Norovirus Outbreaks

Posted on February 24, 2011
A test that could aid in the early identification of norovirus, a leading cause of foodborne disease outbreaks, has been approved for use in the U.S., the Food and Drug Administration announced Wednesday.Developed by R-Biopharm AG, a German company, the "Ridascreen Norovirus 3rd Generation EIA" test could be used when a large number of people--for instance, guests at a banquet--have come down with gastroenteritis...

Is Food Safer? NEJM Tells the Rest of the Story

Posted on February 24, 2011
Two months ago, when the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released revised estimates of foodborne illness in the United States, plenty of people tried to put a positive spin on the long-awaited analysis.Even though CDC experts cautioned against comparing the old estimates with the new to discern a trend, some saw the new estimate of 48 million episodes of foodborne illnesses per year, in contrast with the 1999 estimate of 76 million, as a dramatic drop -- a sign the food supply was becoming safer...

Drug Residues Found in Goat's Tissues

Posted on February 23, 2011
Liver and muscle tissues taken from a goat sold last August for slaughter by a West Virginia livestock operation contained residue from the animal drug Moxidectin, which is used to control parasites and tapeworms.USDA's Food Safety and Inspection Service, in analyzing tissue samples taken from the goat sold by Hite's Livestock Inc...

Listeria Fears Prompt Cheese Recall in Ontario

Posted on February 23, 2011
A cheesemaker in Ontario is recalling cheese that may be contaminated with Listeria monocytogenes.Fifth Town Artisan Cheese Co. of Picton, Ontario is voluntarily recalling its Rose Haus Cave Aged Washed Rind Cheese and with the Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) is warning the public not to consume it...

Turmeric Recalled in British Columbia, Alberta

Posted on February 23, 2011
A Vancouver, B.C. importer is recalling turmeric powder and with the Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) is warning the public not to consume it because it may be contaminated with Salmonella. Gagan Foods International Ltd. says the affected product, Gagan brand Turmeric (Haldi) Powder, product of India, is sold in 200 g packages bearing UPC 7 75620 31106 4...

If I Had a Magic Wand for Food Safety

Posted on February 23, 2011
Editor's note: If you had a magic wand, how would you conjure up ways to make the food supply safe? We asked several people to consider the possibilities. Here is another response, from food safety advocate Barbara Kowalcyk, co-founder of the Center for Foodborne Illness Research & Prevention...

Food Policy Editors Want Single Food Safety Agency

Posted on February 23, 2011
Conventional political wisdom holds that the months and even years after Congress enacts major reform may not be the best time to propose more reform. But there are almost three thousand miles between K Street and the fertile Palouse where Washington State University is located, and three authors in the WSU School of Economics clearly did not get that memo from the political professionals...

OK's Evidence Against Poultry Litter Improves

Posted on February 23, 2011
What happens if evidence, sitting in a drawer, changes before a judge has time to write a decision?Just that may have happened in the ongoing saga of Oklahoma's lawsuit against the largely Arkansas-based poultry industry for polluting the Illinois River with poultry litter...

Sen. Leahy Presses for Update on PCA Investigation

Posted on February 23, 2011
Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy (D-VT) sent a letter Tuesday to the Department of Justice inquiring about the status of the department's investigation into Peanut Corporation of America (PCA), the company implicated in a massive product recall and Salmonella outbreak in 2008 and 2009...

Chicago Juice Maker Violates Acidified Foods Rules

Posted on February 22, 2011
"Serious deviations" from federal food safety regulations, including juice Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Point (HACCP) rules, were reported in a Feb. 4 warning letter to Chicago's Juice Tyme Inc.The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) says the Premium Orange 4 + 1 with Pulp juice product made by Juice Tyme is adulterated "in that it has been prepared, packed, or held under insanitary conditions whereby it may have been rendered injurious to health...

Frozen Fish Recalled in New York City

Posted on February 22, 2011
A New York City company is recalling frozen fish from China because of the potential that it may be contaminated with Clostridium botulinum spores, which can cause botulism.Hua Shing International Trading Corp recalled its frozen SCDA (fish) after New York State Department of Agriculture and Markets Food Inspectors, during a routine inspection and subsequent analysis of product by Food Laboratory personnel, confirmed that the fish was not properly eviscerated prior to processing...

Clinton Sends Cable on FSMA Impact on Imports

Posted on February 22, 2011
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton sent a U.S. overseas missions cable on Friday to alert the international community to the implementation of the FDA Food Safety Modernization Act and detail the impact the bill will have on imports.The Hagstrom Report, an inside-the-beltway Agriculture newsletter, released a copy of the cable, which contains information about a February 23 briefing in Washington, DC for diplomats to learn about how the new law will be implemented and a March 29 World Trade Organization Sanitary and Phytosanitary Committee meeting in Geneva...

EU Panel to Take Up Delayed Decision on Trace GMOs

Posted on February 22, 2011
The European Union's Standing Committee on the Food Chain last week failed to come to a consensus on a proposal to allow trace amounts of prohibited genetically modified organisms (GMOs) in certain animal feeds and cotton.The proposed 0.1 percent threshold is intended to avoid a repeat of 2009 when U...

Continuing Resolution Has Food Safety Cuts

Posted on February 22, 2011
Before the sun came up in Washington, DC Saturday the House passed a continuing resolution--with $61 billion in budget cuts--to fund the government from March to September. Key food safety agencies, including the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, the U...

CoFed Crusades for Campus Food Co-ops

Posted on February 22, 2011
After working to block a fast-food franchise from opening on the University of California Berkeley campus, students opened their own cooperative market-cafe last year.The Berkeley Student Food Collective has in turn spawned the Cooperative Food Empowerment Directive, or CoFed, which now is working to train student leaders nationwide to set up similar cooperatively run markets at Cal Poly San Luis Obispo, City College San Francisco, Humboldt State University, UC Davis, UC Santa Barbara, and the University of Washington...

Can High Pressure Technology Make Hamburger Safer?

Posted on February 22, 2011
Hailing a patent-pending process for a new line of fresh hamburger patties as a "a natural option for food safety" and a "technological breakthrough," meat-industry giant Cargill has begun using a method of high-pressure processing to produce its newly introduced "Fressure" hamburgers for food-service customers...

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