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

Healthy Eating for $2.50 a Day

Posted on February 09, 2011
Vegetables and fruits should take up half the plate, according to the new Dietary Guidelines for Americans, and following that advice will cost only about $2 to $2.50 a day.A new report, "How Much Do Fruits and Vegetables Cost?" from the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Economic Research Service, checked out the average retail price for 153 fresh and processed vegetables and fruits...

Pork Industry Takes Aim at Bittman's New Column

Posted on February 09, 2011
The pork industry is taking issue with Mark Bittman's inaugural New York Times food opinion column, "A Food Manifesto for the Future." In a letter to the editor published Tuesday, Randy Spronk, chairman of the National Pork Producers Council's environment committee, said the industry disagreed with Bittman's call to outlaw concentrated animal feed operations and encourage "sustainable animal husbandry...

No 'Kill Step' for Sprouts at Tiny Greens Farm

Posted on February 09, 2011
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has released the form 483 inspection report for Urbana, IL-based Tiny Greens Organic Farms. It sheds more light on how Tiny Greens sprouts may have become contaminated with Salmonella, causing at least 125 people in 22 states to become infected...

Comments Requested on Disabled Livestock Policy

Posted on February 08, 2011
The U.S. Department of Agriculture's Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) is requesting comments on two petitions for rulemaking submitted to the agency by animal rights groups aimed at reforming the agency's policies on non-ambulatory disabled livestock at slaughter...

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Ensure Food Safety When the Power Goes Out

Posted on February 08, 2011
Snow, sleet, ice, and wind can wreak havoc on our every day lives. Winter! It's a fact of modern life: sometimes the power goes out.If your power goes out, knowing how to keep food safe can help minimize the loss of food and reduce the risk of foodborne illness...

Cost, Salt, Waste Top Food Safety Concerns in UK

Posted on February 08, 2011
Food prices, salt, and waste all topped concerns about food safety in the periodic tracking survey conducted in the United Kingdom for the Food Standards Agency.In a November 2010 tracking survey, the FSA found out what was on the minds of 2,105 adults in the UK...

New York's New Health Commissioner Faces Cuts

Posted on February 08, 2011
The recent confirmation of Nirav R. Shah, M.D., and M.P.H. as the Commissioner of Health in New York State is a landmark, placing the youngest person ever, and the first Indian-American, in the post. The 38 year-old Buffalo, New York-born doctor is an acknowledged leader in health care as the field retools itself...

Experts to Analyze New Whistleblower Protections

Posted on February 08, 2011
The Government Accountability Project, the nation's leading whistleblower organization, is hosting a meeting of legal experts, whistleblowers, and food safety experts in Washington, D.C. Friday to discuss the "far-reaching implications" of the legal protections for food industry workers included in the new food safety law...

Partial Deregulation of GM Sugar Beets Appealed

Posted on February 08, 2011
When you've been running the board in a San Francisco courtroom and you are on the verge of having genetically modified (GM) sugar beets torn up by their roots, do you care if USDA tries to do a little something on its own?Probably not all that much.USDA on Feb...

Bill Proposed to Exempt Utah from New FDA Law

Posted on February 07, 2011
Utah state Rep. Bill Wright is proposing a bill that would exempt his state from federal food regulations, including the recently enacted food safety bill, if the food is not sold across state lines."Within the state, it's state's rights. We already have regulations over those items," Wright told the Salt Lake Tribune in an interview...

Hong Kong Samples for Dioxin in German Imports

Posted on February 07, 2011
Hong Kong ceased testing all German food products for dioxin, switching Feb. 1 to sample checks after more than 100 tests for the chemical were negative.The Food and Environmental Hygiene Department for the special administrative district that governs Hong Kong reported Jan...

Australia Salmonella Outbreak Sickens 60

Posted on February 07, 2011
A Salmonella outbreak in Australia has sickened at least 60 people and is linked to custard-filled pastries.According to Australia's ABC news, public health authorities are testing samples from two Adelaide bakeries and investigators suspect that the source of the the infections may be custard-filled berliner buns and custard-filled cannolis and eclairs...

Raw Milk Questions and Answers

Posted on February 07, 2011
These questions and answers are from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention information website on unpasteurized milk. What is raw milk?Raw milk is milk from cows, goats, sheep, or other animals that has not been pasteurized. Although precise data are not available, it is thought that less than 1% of milk sold to consumers in the United States has not been pasteurized...

GOP Would Chop FDA, USDA Food Safety Budgets

Posted on February 07, 2011
Key House Republicans released a proposal late last week to cut $58 billion from the federal budget for the second half of Fiscal Year 2011. Food safety programs at both the U.S. Food and Drug Administration and the Department of Agriculture could face steep cuts...

Recall Relics at the 'National Outbreak Museum'

Posted on February 07, 2011
OK, so it ain't the Louvre, and it ain't the Smithsonian. The National Outbreak Museum has no galleries, no gift store, no guides.And it most certainly has no restaurant.In fact, the Outbreak Museum, on the 7th floor of a state office building in Portland, Oregon, may be the world's smallest museum...

Oregon's Indiana Jones of Microbe Hunters

Posted on February 07, 2011
Early in December, a nurse in Roseburg, Oregon, contacted the state Public Health Division to report that two women, both in their 60s, had been sickened by toxic E. coli O157:H7. That report immediately got the attention of Dr. William Keene, Oregon's senior epidemiologist...

Histamines Spur Recall of Yellow Fin Tuna

Posted on February 06, 2011
A Louisiana-based supermarket chained is recalling frozen wild-caught yellow fin tuna steaks because of potentially elevated levels of histamine.Rouses Markets said Saturday that the previously frozen fish was sold in the two states where it operates: Louisiana and Mississippi...

Letter From The Editor: A Fix

Posted on February 06, 2011
Just a few hours before writing this week's column, I thought I was going to refrain from expressing an opinion on anything and just stick to reporting on some good things that have happened to Food Safety News.But then events conspired. First, Rupert Murdock and Apple came out with The Daily, a news site for the new iPad...

Ground Beef Recalled Over E. coli O157

Posted on February 06, 2011
A California company is recalling approximately 3,170 pounds of fresh ground beef patties and other bulk packages of ground beef products that may be contaminated with E. coli O157:H7, the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) announced Saturday...

Publisher's Platform: '60-Day Rule.' The Facts

Posted on February 06, 2011
After the recent E. coli O157:H7 outbreak linked to Bravo raw milk gouda cheese that sickened 38 (one with HUS), the New York Times is quickly becoming the go to newspaper for cheese lovers.Bill Neuman wrote yet another article on cheese - "Raw Milk Cheesemakers Fret Over Possible New Rules" - after Food Safety News reported it and in follow-up to my five part series on raw milk and the "60 day rule" - Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4 and Part 5, and the continuing outbreaks, illnesses and recalls linked to raw (unpasteurized) and pasteurized dairy products in the United States...

Food Truck Fans Get National Locater Website

Posted on February 05, 2011
Food truck mania now has its own national website where foodies can find their favorite mobile vendors by metropolitan area. Not surprisingly, Food Truck Locater is a Miami creation, the city where dinner at a bricks and mortar restaurant followed by a movie has been replaced by group bike rides from one food truck location to another...

E. coli Prompts Recall of Raw Milk in Washington

Posted on February 04, 2011
A farm near Spokane in Washington state is recalling its raw milk because it may be contaminated with toxin-producing E. coli.The Country Market of Medical Lake said routine sampling by the Washington State Department of Agriculture (WSDA) discovered that the product was contaminated with E...

USDA, DeLauro Celebrate New Haven School Salad Bar

Posted on February 04, 2011
With the one-year-anniversary of the First Lady's Let's Move campaign approaching, New Haven Public Schools unveiled a new salad bar at Mauro-Sheridan Science, Technology and Communications School on Thursday.USDA Deputy Under Secretary Janey Thornton joined U...

Super Bowl, Slow Cookers and Food Safety

Posted on February 04, 2011
For most of the year, my slow cooker stays on the shelf in my kitchen. But, when the Super Bowl approaches, I always pull it out to make chili, meatballs, or other hot party foods. he thing that I love about a slow cooker is that it can cook food safely and help me save time while I'm busy preparing for the big game...

Baucus Wants More Beef in South Korea Trade Deal

Posted on February 04, 2011
Senate Finance Committee chairman Max Baucus (D-MT) is facing off with the White House over the pending South Korea free trade agreement because he wants loosened restrictions on U.S. beef imports."I'm not going to support the agreement unless there's a change," Baucus told the Wall Street Journal, after a hearing on Capitol Hill this week...

Oregon Health Experts Advise 'No' to More Raw Milk

Posted on February 04, 2011
Dr. Paul Cieslak was probably the last guy a group of small farmers trying to win exemptions from state food safety rules wanted showing up at the Oregon House Agriculture and Natural Resources Committee.Cieslak is communicable disease manager at the Oregon Department of Human Services Public Health Division, and he was there to speak against expanded raw milk sales in the state...

'I'm Sick ... And I'll Be Serving You Tonight'

Posted on February 04, 2011
In a study of restaurant food handling and foodborne illness, about 12 percent of the servers and preparers interviewed told public health researchers they had worked while sick with vomiting and diarrhea.The busier the restaurant, the more reluctant the employees were to call in sick, the study found...

Fish Processors Run Afoul of Food Safety Regs

Posted on February 03, 2011
Seafood processors in Miami, Albany, and Menomonie ran afoul of federal regulations late in 2010, bringing them recent warning letters from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA).Snow crab in Miami, tuna loins and mahi mahi in Albany, and smoked trout in Menomonie were all found adulterated, according to FDA inspectors...

FDA Faults Biscotti Baker's Practices and Labeling

Posted on February 03, 2011
"I am. Therefore I bake," is the motto of the Tiller Biscotti & Cookie Company in Jackson, MS. Federal regulators, however, seem to focus more on the existence of potential violations of Current Good Manufacturing Practices (CGMP) and labeling laws...

Making Homemade Baby Food Safe

Posted on February 03, 2011
Many parents are discovering that homemade baby foods can be a nutritious and often more economical alternative to baby foods available in stores. To ensure that the food is safe for your growing infant, follow these simple steps for selecting, preparing, and storing food...

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