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UK Names Top 5 Countries for Travelers' Diarrhea

Posted on December 15, 2010
The United Kingdom's Health Protection Agency (HPA) Tuesday revealed the top five countries where travelers from England, Wales and Northern Ireland are most likely to acquire gastrointestinal infection following their visit: Egypt, India, Thailand, Pakistan, and Morocco...

Nestlé Urged Not to Buy Quorn Meat Substitutes

Posted on December 15, 2010
The Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI) sent a letter to Nestlé Monday, asking the Swiss-based food giant not to purchase Quorn, a line of frozen-meat substitutes shaped from a vat-grown protein product containing the fungus Fusarium venenatum...

Real People, Real Consequences Behind Statistics

Posted on December 15, 2010
A few weeks ago I was looking at the 2009 FoodNet data and started thinking about the upcoming release of new numbers on the burden of foodborne illness in the United States.As you might recall in 1999 Mead and colleagues published estimates of the annual burden of foodborne illness in the U...

'Best in Class' Essay: E. coli as Adulterant

Posted on December 15, 2010
In November, Bill Marler and Denis Stearns co-taught a one-credit course at the University of Arkansas School of Law, in its Food and Agricultural Policy LL.M program. The course was called "Unsafe Food & Product Liability, and they taught it over three days, with Stearns lecturing the first day on the history and development of product liability law, and Marler leading the students through an examination of several case studies over the next day and a half...

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Texas Regulatory Agencies Sued Over Cal-Maine

Posted on December 15, 2010
Video from the Humane Society of the United States, released last month, showed live chickens trampling dead chickens in crowded cages over manure pits, and eggs covered with blood and feces. Those images are now being used to seek enforcement actions against Cal-Maine, operator of the egg production facility...

U.S. Marshals Go on Chili Raid in New Mexico

Posted on December 15, 2010
U.S. Marshals raided the 46-year-old Duran & Sons Chili Products in Derry, NM Monday after the U.S. Food and Drug Administration obtained a court order to seize the contents of what it said was a rodent and bird infested warehouse.Duran & Sons LLC, a privately held pepper farm located off Interstate 25 about 50 miles north of Las Cruces, NM, was forced to turn over chili pods, ground chili, crushed chili and other chili products stored in the warehouse...

2010 Meat & Poultry Recalls: Over 27 Million lbs.

Posted on December 15, 2010
More than 27 million pounds of meat and poultry were recalled in 2010 by processors regulated by USDA's Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS).Meat and poultry recalls often involve bacterial contamination, but this year more than 21 million pounds of beef, pork, and poultry were recalled for a long list of infractions including ineligible imports, foreign materials, undeclared allergens, animal drug abuse and more...

Abu Dhabi Hosts International Food Safety Meeting

Posted on December 14, 2010
The United Arab Emirates is hosting the first global meeting of the International Food Safety Authorities Network (INFOSAN) this week. The event follows a series of high-profile food safety crackdowns in the UAE.INFOSAN, a joint initiative of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and the World Health Organization (WHO), involves 177 countries...

Lead Found in Butter Ball Candy from Japan

Posted on December 14, 2010
California Department of Public Health director Dr. Mark Horton Monday warned consumers not to eat Butter Ball candy imported from Japan after tests conducted by CDPH found unacceptable levels of lead. Consumers should discard the candy immediately, the CDPH advised...

Walnut Recall Expanded Nationwide

Posted on December 14, 2010
Another company is recalling products containing walnuts supplied by Atlas Walnuts of Visalia, CA because they may contain Salmonella.In a news release, Tropical Nut & Fruit of Charlotte, NC, said it was recalling all its products containing walnuts supplied by Atlas Walnuts and distributed nationwide to retail stores, manufacturers and other distributors...

E. coli Meat Recalls Remain Low in 2010

Posted on December 14, 2010
Recalls of meat and poultry contaminated with dangerous E. coli--the most feared of the many foodborne bacteria--stayed at relatively low levels for a second year, but were still up by more than double from last year.There were about 11 E coli recalls in 2010 involving 2...

Restaurateurs Lose Four of Five Unfit Food Appeals

Posted on December 14, 2010
Ontario restaurant owners Mahmoud Asaad and Senan Daoud have lost an appeal in four of the five cases in which they were convicted in 2009 in connection with a 2007 outbreak of non-O157: H7 E coli.In a Dec. 10 ruling, appellate Judge Ann Watson upheld the pair's convictions for serving unfit food to the public for four of the named consumers...

76 Million Poisoned: Buy the Numbers?

Posted on December 14, 2010
Seventy-six million people Americans sick with foodborne illness, 323,000 hospitalizations, 5,200 deaths.Those grim numbers have been bandied about the Internet, the popular media, and more recently around congressional hearing rooms - like unemployment rates or major league batting averages...

Senate May Clear Path for Food Safety This Week

Posted on December 14, 2010
The Senate took a key vote on a high profile deal to extend the Bush-era tax cuts Monday, a move that could clear the way for the food safety bill to be considered later this week.The food safety bill, which stalled in the Senate after the House approved a similar bill in July 2009 and ultimately passed the upper chamber earlier this month, will most likely be considered attached to an omnibus spending bill that funds the federal government through September 2011...

Consumers Union Urges New Cautions for Tuna

Posted on December 13, 2010
Although federal guidelines suggest younger women and children may safely eat up to 12 ounces of canned light tuna and up to 6 ounces of white tuna a week, Consumers Union is recommending a more cautious approach."Canned tuna, especially white, tends to be high in mercury, and younger women and children should limit how much they eat...

Canada Adds Consumer Panel to Advise CFIA

Posted on December 13, 2010
Canadian Agriculture Minister Gerry Ritz has launched a new roundtable focused on giving consumers an additional opportunity to raise concerns and discuss ways to further improve Canada's food safety system. It continues a trend in a number of countries in which food safety regulators are reaching out to various groups for advice with the formation of specific advisory panels...

Is There an E. coli Problem with Beef Imports?

Posted on December 13, 2010
According to U.S. Customs, in 2007 the United States imported 3.048 billion pounds of beef or 10.7 percent of the overall beef consumption for the year. That amount was slightly lower than in 2006 and about 500 million pounds less than in 2005 and 2004...

In a Perfect World: Making Hamburger Safe

Posted on December 13, 2010
"Oh, Jake," Brett said, "we could have had such a ... damned good time together." Ahead was a mounted policeman in khaki directing traffic. He raised his baton. The car slowed suddenly pressing Brett against me. "Yes," I said...

FDA Releases First Estimate on Antibiotics in Ag

Posted on December 13, 2010
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration for the first time released an estimate on the amount of antibiotics sold for use in domestic food animal production, a move that comes as the agency aims to curb the growth in antibiotic resistance. The agency estimates that, in 2009, there were just shy of 29 million pounds sold for use in animal agriculture...

President to Sign Landmark Child Nutrition Bill

Posted on December 13, 2010
Today President Obama will sign the Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act of 2010 into law during a special signing ceremony at a local Washington, D.C. school. The bill, which reauthorizes many federal nutrition programs, including the National School Lunch Program, is a critical part of First Lady Michelle Obama's campaign to end childhood obesity within a generation...

OK's Campaign Against Poultry Litter May Be Over

Posted on November 26, 2010
Oklahoma's newly elected leadership, Republicans Governor-elect Mary Fallin and Attorney General-elect Scott Pruitt, say they have the future of the state's litigation against the poultry industry over its pollution of public waters under formal review...

Seafood Processor Needs to Enroll in HACCP 101

Posted on November 26, 2010
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) sends warning letters out to manufacturers and processors with food safety problems that sometimes also point up how much misunderstanding still exists.The Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Point (HACCP) regulations, for example, are the new bible of food safety, but beyond the experts it's a subject matter that can get a little foggy...

United Fresh 2011 Show Heads to New Orleans

Posted on November 26, 2010
The 2011 United Fresh Produce Association Show will take place in New Orleans May 2-5. Registration for the produce association's annual conference has opened online.The event, themed BIG Easy and held at the Ernest N. Memorial Convention Center and the Hilton Riverside Hotel in the New Orleans Central Business District, will offer "big solutions big networking and big education," according to United Fresh president and CEO Tom Stenzel...

Iowa State Extension Keeps Food Safety Relevant

Posted on November 26, 2010
We know many food handlers are trained in food safety, but what ensures that they will put their food safety knowledge into practice? They might know they should wash their hands before preparing your pasta, but if no one is watching, what makes them do it anyway? Professors Susan Arendt and Catherine Strohnbehn of Iowa State University and their team of researchers are attempting to figure out what motivates food handlers to put safe food handling techniques into practice, and how food managers can provide them with the motivation they need to do this...

Finding Lead in Home Garden Raised Beds

Posted on November 26, 2010
It isn't uncommon for home gardeners in older cities to find a significant amount of lead in their backyard soil, so many build raised beds and bring in freshly composted soil to avoid the problem.That was exactly what The Food Project, an organization that promotes sustainable urban agriculture, did in the Boston communities of Roxbury and Dorchester, where yard soils were found to have lead levels about the U...

Wales Coroner Finds the System Killed Mason Jones

Posted on November 26, 2010
Butcher William John Tudor sold rotten meat for years, according to testimony in a coroner's inquest in Wales this week, but that did not lead to a verdict against him for unlawful killing.Instead, Gwent coroner David Bowen said five-year old Mason Jones' death during the 2005 outbreak of E...

HACCP at Artesian Trout Farm Needs Some Work

Posted on November 26, 2010
The Artesian Trout Farm, a seafood processing facility in Westfield, WS, is producing air packed hot-smoked trout and salmon that is adulterated or impure and it is misbranded, the Food and Drug Administration says.In a Nov. 12 warning letter, FDA said an inspection last summer at the Wisconsin seafood processor found serious violations of food safety regulations for seafood...

Thanksgiving Potluck: Have a Safe Day

Posted on November 25, 2010
To celebrate Thanksgiving here at Food Safety News, we're hosting our fourth virtual potluck (we've also held virtual picnics on Memorial Day, the Fourth of July and Labor Day).We'll be having turkey, of course, and for tips on how to cook a turkey, you can't beat the Food and Drug Administration's Keep Food Safe Blog...

Thanksgiving Potluck: Bent's Old Fort Lentil Soup

Posted on November 25, 2010
In honor of Thanksgiving here at Food Safety News we're hosting our fourth virtual potluck (we've also held virtual picnics on Memorial Day, the Fourth of July and Labor Day).We'll be having turkey, of course, and for tips on how to cook a turkey, you can't beat the Food and Drug Administration's Keep Food Safe Blog...

Thanksgiving Potluck: Curry Kale Soup

Posted on November 25, 2010
To celebrate Thanksgiving here at Food Safety News we're hosting our fourth virtual potluck (we've also held virtual picnics on Memorial Day, the Fourth of July and Labor Day).We'll be having turkey, of course, and for tips on how to cook a turkey, you can't beat the Food and Drug Administration's Keep Food Safe Blog...

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