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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

CA Says No Threat of Radiation in Leafy Greens

Posted on March 25, 2011
Those leafy greens from California filling America's salad bowls are safe to eat, so stop worrying about this radiation from Japan business--OK?That pretty much says it. At the Irvine-based Western Growers and Produce Marketing Association, spokeswoman Wendy Fink-Weber says there is "no threat" to California produce from radiation in Japan...

Nuts: Restoring Shaken Confidence

Posted on March 25, 2011
The apple that fell on Newton's head led him to develop the theory of gravity, but hazelnuts falling from trees in Oregon this autumn came loaded with a different message - that the nuts could be dangerous.For the first time, hazelnuts were implicated in a foodborne illness outbreak, making at least seven people sick from E...

Cantaloupe: Sometimes a Rough Fruit

Posted on March 25, 2011
The rind of a cantaloupe may be hard enough to knock on, but it's not tough enough to keep out harmful pathogens, as an outbreak of Salmonella Panama reminded consumers this week. What is it that makes this melon one of the most common carriers of foodborne illness among fruits and vegetables? Cantaloupe is particularly susceptible to contamination because it grows on the ground, where it can come into contact with bacteria from animal feces harbored in soil or rainwater runoff...

'Deviations' Mar Inspection of Jakarta Tuna Plant

Posted on March 25, 2011
On one of its websites, Jakarta's P.T. Tuna Permata Rezeki says it runs a "strict HACCP compliance factory."That's not exactly what a U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) inspection found at the Indonesian seafood processing facility last Oct. 21 and 22...

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Canada Courts Issue Food Safety Violation Fines

Posted on March 25, 2011
Judges in British Columbia and Manitoba closed a couple of cases involving the Canada's Food and Drug Act by imposing fines.In Manitoba Provincial Court, the Honorable Judge Heinrichs fined Good Hope Colony Farmers Ltd. $500 for having frozen turkey carcasses in it possession for the purpose of sending or conveying the birds from one province to another for resale...

Scaling Kilimanjaro to Scale Back Water Disease

Posted on March 24, 2011
As 11 climbers embarking this weekend for the summit of Mount Kilimanjaro stop to purify water from streams along the way, money they raise will be flowing into African communities to give them clean drinking water as well -- for life. The climbers are making the 50-mile trek to the top of the tallest mountain in Africa on behalf of Water School, a non-profit organization that provides sustainable clean water solutions in developing nations...

Vilsack: Schools to Receive More Fresh Produce

Posted on March 24, 2011
About four million elementary students should receive a free vegetable or fruit snack at school next year, thanks to the expansion of a U.S. Department of Agriculture program, Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack announced Tuesday. Vilsack said USDA plans to put $158 million into its Fresh Fruit and Vegetable Program for the 2011-12 school year; the expanded assistance could help to benefit an estimated 600,000 to 950,000 more students than were served this year...

Do You Want E. coli with That?

Posted on March 24, 2011
So the President walks up to the counter of a fast food joint and asks for a burger. His order is filled by the Speaker of the House, who dresses the patty with E. Coli, Salmonella, and glass. The first lines of a new joke? No. it's the plot of an animated video released by a non-profit group to raise awareness of the dangers that impending budget cuts could pose to food and water safety...

FDA Hosts Meeting on New Food Safety Act, Imports

Posted on March 24, 2011
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) will hold its first public meeting on the recently enacted Food Safety Modernization Act next week, on Tuesday, March 29, at the White Oak campus in Silver Spring, MD. Focus of the meeting is on import safety...

'Hot' Mackerel Unlikely, and It Won't Get Into USA

Posted on March 24, 2011
Japanese milk and spinach just do not factor much in the U.S. food supply, but what about radioactive fish?Five billion pounds of seafood are imported annually to the U.S. without much inspection.But we should not worry for two reasons about Japan's fish exports (mostly Pacific saury, chum salmon, mackerel, tuna, and scallops), U...

One by One, Food Safety Agencies Address Radiation

Posted on March 24, 2011
On March 11 President Obama expressed his "deepest condolences" to the Japanese people for that day's earthquake and tsunami. Later the same day he announced that he'd dispatched FEMA to Hawaii and other states and territories that might be impacted by coastal waves...

CDC Reports on Salmonella and E. coli Outbreaks

Posted on March 24, 2011
Two major, mulitstate foodborne illness outbreaks -- Salmonella Panama infections linked to cantaloupes and E. coli O157:H7 infections associated with beef bologna -- are being investigated by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and its federal, state and local public health partners...

Minnesota Acts Against 'Food Club' Milk Seller

Posted on March 23, 2011
The Minnesota Department of Agriculture impounded unpasteurized milk and uninspected meat earlier this month from a man who regulators allege was illegally selling the products from a van parked alongside a city street in St. Paul.Alvin Schlangen of Freeport told the Minneapolis Star-Tribune he is an agent for a private "food freedom" club, and said he was doing nothing wrong...

Washington Dairy Had Drug Residues Under Control?

Posted on March 23, 2011
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) says a Washington state dairy farm gave a false guaranty to a buyer that all animals it was providing for sale or processing were handled in a manner to prevent buildups of drug residues.Federal law prohibits providing a false guaranty...

GBS, HUS, IBS, RA: An Alphabet Soup of Danger

Posted on March 23, 2011
With nearly two decades of foodborne illness litigation behind us, tens of thousand of clients and hundreds of experts involved in those cases, we have developed what I hope is a lot of helpful information to explain the state of food illness in the United States...

Cantaloupes Linked to 12 Salmonella Illnesses

Posted on March 23, 2011
An outbreak of Salmonella Panama that has sickened at least 12 people has been linked through an epidemiological investigation to Del Monte whole cantaloupes sold in seven western states.Del Monte Fresh Produce N.A., Inc. ("Del Monte Fresh") announced Tuesday that it is voluntarily recalling 4,992 cartons of whole cantaloupes because they have the potential to be contaminated with Salmonella...

FDA Halts Some Milk, Produce Imports from Japan

Posted on March 23, 2011
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration announced on Tuesday that it would bar imports of some dairy products and fresh produce from the area around Japan's damaged Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant.In a guidance issued to field personnel, FDA said shipments of spinach, milk and a leafy green called kakina from the prefectures of Fukushima, Gunma, Ibaraki and Tochigi could be turned away without inspection...

14 Ill in E. coli Outbreak Tied to Beef Bologna

Posted on March 23, 2011
Fourteen people in three states have been sickened with E. coli O157:H7 in an outbreak linked to beef bologna.As a result, the Pennsylvania-based Palmyra Bologna Co. is recalling approximately 23,000 pounds of Lebanon bologna that may be contaminated with E...

Whey Protein Recall Now Nationwide

Posted on March 22, 2011
Ten days after whey protein was recalled by Vitalabs of Jonesboro, GA, a New Jersey company has announced a nationwide recall of its whey protein products because of the possibility they may be contaminated with Salmonella.On Monday, Universal Nutrition of New Brunswick recalled specific lot numbers for Gain Fast, LAVA, Real Gains, Super Whey Pro, Torrent, Ultra Mass 4500, Ultra Whey Pro and Uni-Syn because one ingredient, whey protein, has the potential to be contaminated...

Canned Pickled Sliced Beets Recalled

Posted on March 22, 2011
Lakeside Foods Inc. of Manitowoc, Wis. has recalled 3,000 cases of canned pickled sliced beets because some cans may have been under-processed and thus have the potential to be contaminated with Clostridium botulinum.There have been no reports of illness linked to the product...

Striking Out with County, McAfee Wins with Tribe

Posted on March 22, 2011
Score one for Mark McAfee, owner of California's Organic Pastures Dairy.McAfee failed earlier this year to persuade Humboldt County to permit the sales of raw milk. Now McAfee has come up with a way to serve one of the few California markets closed to his OP product...

Campbell Soup, Target Latest to Reduce Salt

Posted on March 22, 2011
Campbell Soup Company and Target Corporation--both giants in the retail food industry---are among the latest companies to join the National Salt Reduction Initiative's (NSRI) sodium reduction goals.Camden, NJ-based Campbell Soup is a 142-year old global manufacturer and marketer of soups, sauces, baked snacks, and beverages under such brands as Campbell's, Pepperidge Farm, Arnott's and V8...

Tests of Japan's Food Leave Hong Kong Calm

Posted on March 22, 2011
If you go picking dandelions in the vicinity of Japan's Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power station, you probably do not want to eat them.But just as reports of a "China Syndrome" meltdown at Fukushima were premature, so too might be reports of Japan's next disaster being the nuking of its food supply...

Local Health Departments Cut 29,000 Since 2008

Posted on March 22, 2011
Budget reductions have forced local health departments to cut programs and staff, resulting in the loss of 6,000 public health jobs last year alone, according to survey released Monday by the National Association of County and City Health Officials (NACCHO)...

Company Develops Natural Way to Fight E. coli

Posted on March 22, 2011
In the ongoing battle to keep the potentially deadly E. coli O157:H7 pathogen out of hamburger, a range of "killer strategies" has been proposed, among them: zap the meat with irradiation, test the hell out of it, check every carcass for surface contamination, and vaccinate every beef cow against E...

Marler Clark Donates $100,000 to High School

Posted on March 21, 2011
When Nevada's Green Valley High School held its winter sports award banquet last week, Seattle-based food safety law firm Marler Clark was there to announce a donation of $100,000 to the Henderson-based school.The donation was made in honor of Green Valley's former teaching assistant, E...

Raw Milk May Pose Health Risk

Posted on March 21, 2011
What's a building block in the food pyramid that's important for building and maintaining bone mass? It's milk.Whether it's from cows, goats, sheep, or another mammal, milk and milk products are an important source of calcium throughout a person's life...

Japan's Crisis and the Food Supply

Posted on March 21, 2011
Consumer concern about food contaminated by radiation from damaged nuclear power plants in Japan is unwarranted at this time. The level of radiation that could potentially reach the USA is anticipated to be very low and winds will dissipate it further...

Canada to Publish Names of Food Safety Violators

Posted on March 21, 2011
In an effort to improve transparency and accountability in the food system, the Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) launched a new policy on March 16 to post quarterly information on its website regarding the agency's compliance and enforcement activities...

Hagen Says FSIS Working to 'Retool' Policies

Posted on March 21, 2011
The nation's top food safety official, Under Secretary for Food Safety at the U.S. Department of Agriculture Elisabeth Hagen, outlined food safety policies in the pipeline at the agency before an audience of meat processing food safety experts. Hagen said USDA's Food Safety Inspection Service is working to "retool" the U...

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