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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

Q&A With Food Safety Expert Phyllis Entis

Posted on March 15, 2010
As a microbiologist and former Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) official, Phyllis Entis knows an awful lot about food safety. Her blog, eFoodAlert is an excellent resource for anyone who eats, manufactures, or regulates food. The blog keeps up-to-date recall alert information and provides insight and analysis on food safety issues--and it's now read in over 165 countries...

Why Did Whole Foods Stop Selling Raw Milk?

Posted on March 15, 2010
Why did Whole Foods stop selling raw milk in California, Washington, Pennsylvania, and Connecticut?In January, I wrote 'Risky Business - Why would a retailer like Whole Foods sell Raw Milk?' – perhaps Whole Foods actually paid attention? In the last two years I have spoken at various conferences of the financial risks--specifically to retailers and insurers--of selling raw milk...

DC Chef Mendelsohn Promotes 'Good Stuff'

Posted on March 15, 2010
Everyone knows that Washington DC is the political epicenter of the United States, but what those outside the Beltway don't know is that the city's foodie reputation is growing. With hundreds of restaurants flourishing in the land of lawyers and lobbyists, Food Safety News was able to sit down with gourmet Chef Spike Mendelsohn in his busy Capitol Hill restaurant Good Stuff...

Iowa Ready to Put Food Safety at Risk

Posted on March 15, 2010
The Iowa Legislature is on the brink of extending a waiver of food safety regulations that have allowed a handful of Maid-Rite franchisees to cook and store loose hamburger meat in the same cooking vessel at the same time. Food safety experts say the practice risks both undercooking the meat and cross-contamination...

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Cumberland Tuna Sandwiches At Risk

Posted on March 14, 2010
Cumberland Farms Inc., best known for its chain of about 900 convenience stores in the eastern United States, is making tuna sandwiches at its seafood processing facility at the intersection of Interstates 90 and 495 east of Boston. It's been doing so without the benefit of a Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Point (HACCP) plan, and that, in the opinion of the U...

Letter From The Editor: Loose Meat

Posted on March 14, 2010
Tomorrow Food Safety News will report in detail on the highly likely possibility that the Iowa Legislature is going to make it legal to recklessly cook loose meat in the Hawkeye State. The Iowa Senate has by voice vote already approved an amendment to the state appropriations bill that allows Taylor's Maid-Rite in Marshalltown to cook and store beef in the same container...

Books Teach Kids about Allergies, Handwashing

Posted on March 14, 2010
The new children's series, "Green Apple Tales", created by Cindy Rice-Andrea, aims to deliver food safety information through its lovable characters, colorful illustrations, and easy to understand principles. Food Safety News recently interviewed Rice-Andrea about her children's food safety series...

Survey: Consumers Want Food Guidance

Posted on March 14, 2010
A recent survey done by FoodMinds shows that Americans are paying attention to food labels more than ever before. The survey also found that citizens generally support the government's efforts to control what is included in their food and what is written on the packages...

Whole Foods Pulls Raw Milk in 4 States

Posted on March 14, 2010
Company predicts raw milk will be back in stores ‘in short order' The controversy over raw milk has entered surprising new territory--the Whole Foods stores in California, Washington state, Pennsylvania and Connecticut. Effective March 12, the company pulled raw milk--milk that has not been pasteurized--out of its store dairy departments in those four states...

Listeria Found in Ready-to-Eat Meat Plant

Posted on March 13, 2010
A Detroit food processing facility has some significant food safety problems, including Listeria found in the slicing room for ready-to-eat meats, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) disclosed Tuesday.Scotty's Inc. was inspected last August and FDA found numerous violations of federal food safety laws and regulations...

Prosciutto Cotto Recalled for Listeria

Posted on March 13, 2010
For the second time in four months, Canada is warning consumers not to eat a Siena Foods Ltd. product because of possible Listeria contamination. The Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) says Siena brand Prosciutto Cotto Cooked Ham may contain the pathogen...

Food Poisoning Attorney Addresses Students

Posted on March 13, 2010
Seattle attorney William Marler gave a speech last Wednesday regarding foodborne illness law as a part of the Washington State University Common Reading Program. The Common Reading Program chooses a different book each year that freshmen are required to read, and then is incorporated into their general education classes...

Libertarian Farmers Lobby Against S. 510

Posted on March 13, 2010
It is not every day you find Amish farmers serving raw milk in the U.S. Senate. But this week a group of libertarian, small, sustainable, organic farmers were serving up the unpasteurized milk--which the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) deems dangerous--to Senate staff and local food advocates as part of an effort to push back against pending federal food safety regulations...

HVP Adding Up in US; Questions in Canada

Posted on March 12, 2010
More products made with hydrolyzed vegetable protein (HVP) from Basic Food Flavors in Nevada were being recalled in the United States as Canadians Friday questioned if their own food safety agency moved fast enough to warn about the Salmonella problem...

More Victims, More Pepper Recalled

Posted on March 12, 2010
The nationwide outbreak of Salmonella Montevideo grew some today in both numbers of victims and recalled products. The federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in Atlanta said 249 people in 44 states and the District of Columbia were infected with the same Salmonella strain as the strain that was isolated from contaminated pepper...

Slow Food Tracing Puts School Lunch at Risk

Posted on March 12, 2010
Several hundred schools may have received recalled beef, USA Today reported Wednesday. The beef, potentially contaminated with E. coli O157:H7, was not purchased by the U.S. Department of Agriculture's (USDA) school lunch program, but by dozens of school districts buying food in the commercial market...

"Ban the Salt," Says NY Lawmaker

Posted on March 12, 2010
New York Assemblyman Felix Ortiz may just be one of those fellows who get a little carried away with the cause of the moment. Or, as the first lawmaker to succeed in banning drivers from using hand-held cell phones, Assemblyman Ortiz might be someone to keep an eye on...

Lawsuits Filed in Subway Shigella Oubtreak

Posted on March 12, 2010
Two lawsuits were filed this week against a Subway in Lombard, Illinois, the site of a county-wide Shigella outbreak. The suits were filed by Marler Clark, the Seattle-based foodborne illness law firm, on behalf of Barbara and Andres Romero and Ron and Sarah Bowers...

Dutch Valley Joins Pepper Recall

Posted on March 11, 2010
The nationwide 2010 outbreak of Salmonella Montevideo has another company recalling pepper and products made with pepper. It's been a week since the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) updated their figures, but at last count 245 people in 44 states and the District of Columbia had been infected with the Salmonella strain...

US One of Top Five Food Safety Offenders

Posted on March 11, 2010
A new global monitoring tool identifies the United States as one of the top five worst food safety offenders, along with China, Turkey, Iran, and Spain. The findings are based on food contamination data collected between 2003 and 2008.The food safety monitoring system was unveiled last moth at a European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) and Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) meeting...

More or Less Food Safety Regulation?

Posted on March 11, 2010
During the past weeks, a few news stories have highlighted the distinctions between two different legislative approaches to address the issue of food safety. There is little question that the public is becoming increasingly aware and concerned about the safety and quality of food...

Meat: Ready for its Close-Up

Posted on March 11, 2010
Last week, all but one of the European Union nations voted in favor of using Thrombian, or Transglutaminase (TG), otherwise known as Meat Glue, or to some Meat Make-Up. Thrombian is an enzyme that catalyzes covalent bonds between free amine groups and gamma-caroxminid groups of protein or peptide bond gluatamine...

CDC Traces Outbreak with Shopper Cards

Posted on March 11, 2010
As of March 2, 2010, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) counted a total of 245 individuals infected with the outbreak strain of Salmonella Montevideo in 44 states. Among the 2,500 serotypes of Salmonella, according to the CDC, Montevideo is in the top 10 most common serotypes...

Expanded Pet Food Recall Brings Changes

Posted on March 10, 2010
Nature's Variety expanded a recall of Chicken Formula Raw Frozen Diets for dogs and cats to include the "Best If Used By" dates of 10/29/10 and 11/9/10 because these products may be contaminated with Salmonella.Its initial recall was issued Feb. 12.Salmonella can affect animals and there is risk to humans from handling contaminated pet products...

FDA Warns Oregon Sprout Grower

Posted on March 10, 2010
You might think of an Oregon sprout farm as being all clean and fresh. You'd be wrong.Lucky Farm Inc. is a bean sprout processing facility in Portland. An investigation team from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) spent five days at Lucky Farm last fall and the agency remains concerned enough about what they found that it has issued a "Warning Letter" to the bean sprout company...

More HVP Products Recalled

Posted on March 10, 2010
Three more companies are recalling products for potential Salmonella contamination from Hydrolyzed Vegetable Protein (HVP). Nestle Professional North America is recalling roughly 6,000 pounds of its ready-to-eat bacon, Procter and Gamble is recalling two Pringles chips flavors: Restaurant Cravers Cheeseburger and Family Faves Taco Night, and Ruiz Foods, Inc...

Food Safety Key Concern in FDA Budget Hearing

Posted on March 10, 2010
Food safety concerns, including the ongoing hydrolyzed vegetable protein (HVP) Salmonella recall, were discussed in a Senate appropriations subcommittee hearing on the president's 2011 budget request for the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) yesterday...

USDA Vet Blows Whistle on Food Safety Agency

Posted on March 10, 2010
Congressman promises "relentless" oversight after FSIS veterinarian blows whistle on humane handling and food safety violationsCongressional oversight subcommittee chairman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) is vowing to increase oversight over USDA meat safety after a Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) veterinarian blew the whistle on his supervisors for ignoring violations of food safety and humane slaughter laws...

WA Creamery Recalls More Cheese

Posted on March 09, 2010
2010 has not started out as a good year for the Estrella Family Creamery in Montesano, WA.The 164-acre dairy farm located in Southeast Washington State in the past has won awards for cheese making at a world level. Lately, it's been involved not in award contests, but one recall after another...

Regulatory Climate Sent HVP Maker Packing

Posted on March 09, 2010
Basic Food Flavors--the company at the center of the recall of foods containing hydrolyzed vegetable protein that may laced with a strain of Salmonella Tennessee--was born in California and fled to Nevada for a more favorable regulatory environment.The North Las Vegas food Ingredient Company is not saying much today, but in 1990 it was the subject of a Forbes magazine article about its expansion to Nevada after encountering too many regulatory obstacles in Pomona, California...

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