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

NOAA Reopens Gulf to Deep Water Shrimp Fishing

Posted on February 03, 2011
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration is re-opening 4,213 square miles of Gulf of Mexico federal waters to royal red shrimping, a deep-water fish that has been prohibited in the area since November when a shrimper found tar balls in his net...

Safeway Sued for Failing to Issue Recall Alerts

Posted on February 03, 2011
Two shoppers who say they weren't alerted to recalls of food they purchased at Safeway have filed a lawsuit against the grocery chain.Representing them in the long-threatened complaint, filed Wednesday, is the advocacy group Centers for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI)...

Dairy Pro Offers Food Safety Strategies

Posted on February 03, 2011
Toss a food-safety coin up in the air. Which side do you want to see facing up when it lands? Prevention? Or recalls and lawsuits?That was the underlying question that Marc Bates, senior dairy consultant, posed to a group of small-scale dairy producers during his recent presentation about changes to the Food Safety Modernization Act signed into law by President Obama at the beginning of the year...

Salmonella Lawsuit Filed Against Taco Bell

Posted on February 02, 2011
A Michigan man who became ill after eating beef tacos has filed suit against Yum Brands, Inc., parent company of Taco Bell and Chicago Diversified Foods Corporation, the franchisor of a Taco Bell restaurant. Gary Erdman is being represented by the Seattle-based food safety law firm Marler Clark and the Trenton-based law firm Counard & Heilmann...

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Vaccine Sent for South Korea's FMD Outbreak

Posted on February 02, 2011
The North American Foot-and-Mouth Disease Vaccine Bank, administered jointly by commissioners from the United States, Canada and Mexico, is providing the Republic of Korea with foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) vaccine needed to assist the country with its ongoing FMD outbreak...

Salmonella Found Inside Minnesota Dairy

Posted on February 02, 2011
A grade B dairy in Winthrop, MN owned by the giant milk-marketing cooperative known as Dairy Farmers of America was found contaminated with Salmonella senftenberg during a routine inspection.It does not appear that anyone became ill from the dairy plant contamination...

2010 Dietary Guidelines, Deconstructed

Posted on February 02, 2011
I have now had time to look at the full report of the 2010 Dietary Guidelines-all 95 pages of what they are calling "the policy document."Oh no! What happened to the Selected Messages for Consumers that I posted yesterday? "Enjoy your food" is not in it and neither are any of the other clear, straightforward messages...

Senators Introduce Bill to Ban GE Salmon

Posted on February 02, 2011
Senators Mark Begich (D-AK) and Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) reintroduced a bill Tuesday that would ban genetically engineered (GE) salmon, a fast-growing fish that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration is likely to approve in the near future. If the FDA gives its stamp of approval, and many expect the agency will, the GE salmon would be the first genetically engineered food animal to be approved for human consumption...

FDA Finds Salmonella at One Producer's Egg Farms

Posted on February 02, 2011
On the heels of a 500 million egg recall in August and the implementation of a new federal rule aimed at preventing Salmonella in shell eggs, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration issued its first comprehensive report on egg inspections Tuesday. The agency inspected 35 shell egg farms in six states--Ohio, Maine, Pennsylvania, Washington, South Carolina, and Utah--all of which had either been associated with an outbreak or were flagged because of a poor compliance history...

Is 60-Day Rule Still Valid for Raw-Milk Cheese?

Posted on February 02, 2011
Recent recalls of raw-milk cheese have drawn increased attention to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) rule that requires cheese made from unpasteurized milk to age for a minimum of 60 days before sale. For more than a decade, both the FDA and numerous food research groups have been working to answer the question: Is the "60-day rule" effective at eliminating harmful pathogens from raw-milk cheese?The short answer seems to be, "Not completely...

Oregon Friends of Family Farmers Want Exemptions

Posted on February 01, 2011
The 76th Session of the Oregon Legislature will get underway Tuesday in Salem. It will wait only until the next day to take up a sweeping new farm law that includes making it easier--some say much easier--to sell raw milk.Oregon's Family Farm Act (HB 2222) is not your ordinary raw milk bill...

Canada to Set Biosecurity Standard for Dairy Farms

Posted on February 01, 2011
The Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) is working with the Dairy Farmers of Canada (DFC) to develop a voluntary national farm-level biosecurity standard for the dairy industry.Biosecurity refers to steps that minimize the risk of introducing and spreading disease and pests...

Cilantro Recalled Due to Salmonella

Posted on February 01, 2011
A Salinas, CA company is recalling fresh cilantro after Salmonella was detected during a USDA Microbiology Data Program test. Sabor Farms said the cilantro was sold in California and "several other states" from Jan. 14-28 under the labels Nature's Reward, Ocean Mist, Tanimura & Antle and Queen Victoria...

Look Before Crossing, Cook Before Consuming

Posted on February 01, 2011
The landmark Food Safety Modernization Act, signed earlier this month by President Obama, certainly provides a long overdue increase in food safety authority to the Food and Drug Administration. But is it enough authority - or even too much? Is there a risk that consumers will be lulled by the Act into a false sense of security?I thought about this last week when I took my six-year-old grandson for a walk...

Canada's New Online Food Safety Resource

Posted on February 01, 2011
The Canadian Public Health Association (CPHA) has announced the implementation of a new and easy to use online resource, called EAT SAFE!, aimed at helping consumers avoid foodborne illness. The website includes sections instructing consumers how to properly clean, handle, separate, cook and chill their foods, complete with a link to appropriate internal temperatures for various meats, poultry, seafood, and eggs...

DeLauro Probes USDA on Chinese Poultry Policy

Posted on February 01, 2011
Congresswoman Rosa DeLauro (D-CT) sent a letter to Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack Friday asking him for details on the USDA Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS)'s new interim rule to loosen restrictions on poultry imports from countries, like China, that have faced avian influenza in the past...

New Dietary Guidelines: Enjoy Food, Eat Less

Posted on February 01, 2011
The new Dietary Guidelines for Americans, 2010 come close to what Michael Pollan advised in his book, "Food Rules": Eat food, not too much, mostly plants.A bit more prosaically, the U.S. Department of Agriculture puts it this way: "Enjoy your food, but eat less ...

More Governors Make Food Safety Appointments

Posted on January 31, 2011
The nation's new governors are now all at their posts, and most have already delivered their own "State of State" or budget messages. After last November's election, 29 executive mansion's are held by the GOP, 20 by Democrats, and one by an independent, the former Republican, Rhode Island's Gov...

Inspectors See Potential Problems at Sprout Farm

Posted on January 31, 2011
Public health inspectors observed several potential food safety problems at a Pacific Northwest sprouts growing facility, according to a U.S. Food and Drug Administration 483 report.Clover sprouts produced by the facility, Sprouters Northwest, were identified as the source of a Salmonella outbreak earlier this month...

Texas Taffy Pet Treats May Have Salmonella

Posted on January 31, 2011
A company in Amarillo, Texas is recalling beef jerky-type pet treats because they may be contaminated with Salmonella.Merrick Pet Care said it made the decision to recall all Junior Texas Taffy pet treats out of an "abundance of caution."The treats being recalled have an item number of 27077 and a UPC number 02280827077, all lots up to and including 10364 are being recalled...

Surprising New Food Safety Act Enforcement Tools

Posted on January 31, 2011
Editor's note: This is the second in a series of articles from Center for Science in the Public Interest Food Safety Director Caroline Smith DeWaal on the implementation of the FDA Food Safety Modernization Act. In the second installment, DeWaal looks at several new enforcement tools - suspension of registration and records access - that emerged from lessons learned from the Bioterrorism Act of 2002...

China Arrested 248 Food Safety Violators in 2010

Posted on January 31, 2011
The Chinese government arrested 248 people involved with food safety violations, officials announced Sunday.The National Food Safety Regulating Work Office said that out of 130,000 total cases, 115 were criminal, according to official Chinese media Xinhua...

USDA Petitioned to Block Chinese Poultry

Posted on January 31, 2011
Washington, DC-based Food & Water Watch submitted a citizen petition last week to the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) asking that China not be allowed to import processed poultry products into the U.S. It appears that USDA is moving towards allowing Chinese poultry...

Harmful Hearths: Open-Fire Cooking Threatens Lives

Posted on January 31, 2011
The most well-known causes of death in developing countries today include dangers such as unclean drinking water, malnutrition and HIV infection. Cooking, on the other hand, probably would not make the list of recognized killers. However, for the more than 3 billion people who stand over fires to cook every day, preparing food poses just such a life-threatening risk...

Letter From The Editor: Implementation

Posted on January 30, 2011
Defense lawyers from Stoel Rives are out with a fine presentation for the food industry on what the Food Safety Modernization Act is all about. One part caught my eye.It has to do with the immediate work that lies ahead for the U.S. Food & Drug Administration (FDA)...

Publisher's Platform: Honoring the Victims

Posted on January 30, 2011
In the middle of a late January D.C. snowstorm that jammed intersections, closed airports and made commutes last several hours, Senators Harkin, Klobuchar and Durbin and Representatives Pallone and DeLauro, who were instrumental in pushing the Food Safety Modernization Act onto President Obama's desk, honored victims, many my clients, of food poisoning events over the last two decades...

Salinas Cilantro Recalled Over Salmonella Fears

Posted on January 29, 2011
A Salinas, CA company is recalling fresh cilantro because it may be contaminated with Salmonella.Tanimura & Antle said the cilantro has been on store shelves since January 14. The cilantro was sold in bunches containing a white twist-tie printed with blue lettering...

Company Halts Sale of 'Nuclear Sludge' Candy

Posted on January 29, 2011
The Indiana company that recently recalled some of its impudently named Toxic Waste brand candy has discovered more lead in the product.As a result, Circle City Marketing and Distributing, doing business as Candy Dynamics, is now recalling all of its Toxic Waste brand sour candies labeled as Nuclear Sludge, and discontinuing the sale of the products in the United States...

Feds Seize Bravo Farms Cheese Under Court Order

Posted on January 29, 2011
They came Thursday morning for the cheese at Bravo Farms. Specifically U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) agents, with help from U.S. Marshals, who seized about 80,000 pounds of cheese including:-- Ninety-seven, more or less, 1.2 pound wedges of Gouda cheese, and-- Fourteen, more or less, 40 pound blocks of white cheddar cheese labeled "Sage, White Pepper, and Onion," and -- All other articles of cheese in any size and type of container labeled or unlabeled except for pasteurized cheese curds...

Warning Over Low-Acid Juice Making Practices

Posted on January 28, 2011
Healthy Choice Islands Blends Inc. is a company that owes its founding to the dry bread, thin soup and water diet of the Shumen POW camp in Bulgaria.It was after doing time there during World War II that an U.S. Army Air Force radioman named Robert Goldberg returned home and developed fresh-squeezed juice drinks to help regain his strength...

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