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Food Safety News

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By Dan Flynn and Suzanna Schreck

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

UK Looks at Rooster Combs as 'Novel' Food

Posted on February 14, 2011
If it helps reduce the inflammation in the arthritic knees of racehorses, a little in your yogurt or other dairy product couldn't hurt, could it?We are talking about turning rooster's combs into a food ingredient, or a "novel" food ingredient, as they call it in Europe...

Getting Botulism Control Right in an HACCP Plan

Posted on February 14, 2011
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is having a little disagreement with a Fort Lauderdale seafood processing facility over how to control the potential for deadly botulism.The seafood processing facility, owned by Cemco International Corp., has been trying since last June 14-15, when it had its last inspection, to write a seafood Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Point (HACCP) plan that will satisfy FDA...

Market's Image Takes a Beating in Phoenix Area

Posted on February 14, 2011
Whoever said any publicity is good publicity has not gone through what the Sunflower Market grocery store chain has gone through in the Phoenix area in just a couple weeks.First 31-year old Anthony Garcia was arrested after handling out yogurt samples at Sunflower that a female customer said "tasted like semen...

FSMA: Import Rules May Foster Global Food Safety

Posted on February 14, 2011
Editor's note: This is the third in a series of articles from CSPI Food Safety Director Caroline Smith DeWaal on the implementation of the FDA Food Safety Modernization Act. In this installment, DeWaal examines some important new food safety tools in FDA's toolbox for imported foods...

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A Performance Drug That Can Taint Feed, Athletes

Posted on February 14, 2011
Legally used in certain countries outside the United States as a prescription medical treatment for asthma in humans and airway obstruction in horses, clenbuterol, classified as a beta2-adrenergic agonist, is perhaps more commonly known for its illegal use by athletes and bodybuilders to increase lean muscle mass and reduce body fat...

Encourage an Earlier Taste for Healthy Foods

Posted on February 14, 2011
The frontier in the fight against childhood obesity should be pushed back to toddlers and preschoolers, a new study suggests. The researchers found that kids ages 3-5 already have developed a taste for sugary, fatty, and salty foods, and easily recognize the brands that offer these options...

President Obama's Budget Released Today

Posted on February 14, 2011
President Obama will release his 2012 budget today, a critical part of the heated debate about how to fund the federal government and deal with rising national debt. As Steve Grossman, president of HPS Group and deputy director of the Alliance for a Stronger FDA, has said, the president's announcement is the "opening salvo in what is likely to be a long, hard fight over next year's appropriation...

Letter From The Editor: Good News

Posted on February 13, 2011
Last week I opted to dispense with sharing some more good news about Food Safety News in order to share another of my solutions for solving a food safety problem. I'm going to get to the good news.For the record, I think I've only advanced two ideas for food safety...

Publisher's Platform: Prosecuting Those Who Poison

Posted on February 13, 2011
After once again spending time with victims of yet another outbreak of foodborne disease who are advocating for justice for themselves and family members, I thought again why prosecutors seem so reluctant to charge those who poison us with food...

Raw Goat Milk Recalled in Washington State

Posted on February 12, 2011
A small dairy in Washington state is recalling unpasteurized fluid goat milk because of concerns about possible contamination with antibiotic residue.The Lucky Hook Dairy of Moses Lake in Eastern Washington is recalling two lot codes of its raw fluid goat milk because antibiotic residue can cause adverse health reactions in people who are sensitive to antibiotics...

USDA Fully Deregulates GE 'Ethanol Corn'

Posted on February 12, 2011
The U.S. Department of Agriculture announced Friday it would deregulate industrial corn that is genetically engineered for ethanol production, saying the crop does not pose a plant risk.Syngenta Seeds, which developed the corn, said its Enogen seed would be available for the upcoming season for a small number of growers and by 2012 for larger scale commercial planting under contracted, closed production...

Tyson Agrees to Penalty in Mexico Inspection Case

Posted on February 12, 2011
Tyson Foods Inc.--one of the world's largest processors and marketers of chicken, beef and pork products--agreed to pay a $4 million criminal penalty to resolve an investigation into improper payments by company representatives to government-employed inspection veterinarians in Mexico...

PCA Victims Call for Charges Against Parnell

Posted on February 12, 2011
Two years ago this week Stewart Parnell, the embattled CEO of Peanut Corporation of America, the company implicated in a nationwide Salmonella outbreak that sickened 700 and killed nine, stood in front of the House Energy and Commerce Committee and invoked his Fifth Amendment rights...

House Ag Committee Approves Oversight Agenda

Posted on February 11, 2011
The House Agriculture Committee Thursday approved an agenda of oversight hearings that covers a broad range of issues, from the Farm Bill to international food aid.The 9-page laundry list of topics for the committee to consider--a reminder that the U...

Smoked Salmon Recalled in 20 States for Listeria

Posted on February 11, 2011
A Miami company is recalling 600 pounds of smoked salmon that was shipped to 20 states after routine sampling by the Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumers Services found that the product may be contaminated with Listeria monocytogenes.St. James Smokehouse Inc...

Raw Milk Farmer's Contempt Hearing Reset

Posted on February 11, 2011
A court hearing to determine whether Minnesota dairy farmer Michael Hartmann is in contempt of court has been postponed until March 10.The contempt request is the latest in a conflict between Hartmann Dairy Farm and the state of Minnesota that dates back a decade, when Hartmann lost his Grade A dairy permit over unsanitary conditions...

Do Diet Sodas Really Cause Stroke? I'm Dubious

Posted on February 11, 2011
I've been asked repeatedly this week to comment on the huge press outcry about a study that links diet sodas to an increased risk of stroke and heart disease.I have not seen the study and neither has anyone else. It is not yet published.It was presented at the American Stroke Association's International Stroke Conference 2011...

Toxic Heavy Metal Found in Louisiana Gulf Oysters

Posted on February 11, 2011
Oysters collected from the waters of the Gulf of Mexico in Louisiana are turning up with extremely high levels of cadmium, a toxic heavy metal. The amounts--at 150 to 200 times greater than levels considered safe for human consumption of oysters-- are troubling...

FDA to Hire Chief Outbreak Director

Posted on February 11, 2011
The position isn't being advertised as "outbreak czar," but the U.S. Food and Drug Administration is looking for a chief medical officer who will lead a team permanently assigned to handle foodborne illness outbreaks.The FDA posted its recruitment notice online this week...

Dingell Demands Congress Fund New Food Safety Law

Posted on February 11, 2011
The Dean of the House of Representatives is calling on Congress to "adequately fund" the U.S. Food and Drug Administration so it can implement the sweeping food safety law President Obama signed in January. Rep. John Dingell (D-MI) sent a letter to the leadership on both the House Committee on the Budget and the House Committee on Appropriations requesting they "immediately" provide the funding needed to implement the "urgently needed" provisions the newly enacted FDA Food Safety Modernization Act law, a feat that the Congressional Budget Office estimates will require approximately $1...

House Lawmakers Introduce Bill to Ban GE Salmon

Posted on February 10, 2011
Washington, DC-based Food & Watch Watch is praising Congress for "uniting" against the U.S. Food and Drug Administration's expected approval of genetically-engineered (GE) salmon.The groups executive director, Wenonah Hauter announced Thursday that a bipartisan group of House lawmakers introduced "critical" legislation (H...

Oregon Dairy Group Opposes Raw Milk Expansion

Posted on February 10, 2011
In a letter delivered to each member of the Oregon Legislature Wednesday, the Oregon Dairy Farmers Association (ODFA) told why it opposes opening up the gates on unpasteurized milk in the state.OFDA's nearly 300 members produce milk for dairies that pasteurize milk before it is sold to consumers...

Juiced Bob Calf Goes to Market

Posted on February 10, 2011
Every week it seems there are one or two dairy farms retiring animals that turn out to have too much of some drug in their system at a level that is not allowed in human food.But it's been awhile since one little bob veal calf turned up with as much in its system as an animal sold by the Myron J...

FoodCorps Recruits to Help Reform School Meals

Posted on February 10, 2011
FoodCorps, a brand new national service program funded by AmeriCorps and the W.K. Kellogg Foundation, launched this week and is now seeking applications for its first class of service members to dedicate a year of their lives to school food programs to help combat the national obesity epidemic...

One Death in Maine Salmonella Outbreak

Posted on February 10, 2011
An outbreak of Salmonella in a Camden, ME retirement and assisted living facility has caused seven illnesses, including one fatality.According to a report in the Bangor Daily News, epidemiologists with the Maine Center for Disease Control and Prevention have identified the outbreak strain as Salmonella javiana, but have not been able to determine its source...

FDA, FSIS, CDC Face Deep Cuts in House GOP Budget

Posted on February 10, 2011
House Republicans Thursday released a more detailed picture of the cuts that would be required under their budget proposal for the remainder of fiscal year 2011, which is slated to be considered on the House floor next week. Food and public health regulatory agencies, including the U...

Minnesota Lawmaker Would Block Obesity Lawsuits

Posted on February 09, 2011
Minnesota's "cheeseburger bill" is back on the grill in St. Paul.State Rep. Dean Urdahl, R-Grove City, has again introduced legislation to bar obese Minnesotans from suing their favorite fast food restaurants for making them fat.The "Personal Responsibility in Food Consumption Act" would prevent anyone in Minnesota from filing lawsuits against the likes of McDonald's, Burger King, or Wendy's for their weight gain...

Mold, Insects Found at PA Canning Factory

Posted on February 09, 2011
Mold, maggots and flies were found during a federal inspection of a Pennsylvania canning factory.In a Feb. 2 warning letter, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) details multiple problems at Furman Foods Inc., which cans products like Rally's Chili and Furmano's Dark Red Kidney Beans...

Man Fined in Australia for Raw Milk Sales

Posted on February 09, 2011
An Australian court has fined a New South Wales man $53,000 for various food safety violations, including selling unpasteurized dairy products "deliberately mislabeled and camouflaged as cosmetic products" when he knew his customers would drink them.According to a story in Hospitality Magazine, Peter Melov was found guilty of 43 breaches of the Food Act for what Primary Industries minister Steve Whan, in a news release, said "placed the health and safety of his customers at significant risk...

What's Cooking? Acrylamide

Posted on February 09, 2011
With last week's release of the 2010 Dietary Guidelines for Americans, there was an increase in attention on healthy eating. The same may be true about the upcoming release of the National Toxicology Program (NTP) report on acrylamide and health...

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