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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

GAO: Food Safety Fragmentation Needs to be Fixed

Posted on March 21, 2011
The Government Accountability Office (GAO) has come out with yet another report lambasting the federal food safety system for being fragmented and in need of reform, this time calling on the Office of Management and Budget to facilitate better governmentwide coordination...

Letter From The Editor: Salt River Fields

Posted on March 20, 2011
This weekend finds me on light duty, taking in some spring training games in the Phoenix area. The main reason I had to come down was to see Salt River Fields at Talking Stick, the new $120-million spring training Mecca built by the Pima and Maricopa Indians for the Colorado Rockies and Arizona Diamondbacks...

Publisher's Platform: More 411 Information

Posted on March 20, 2011
Last week I talked about Marler Clark's nearly two-decade effort to provide information about food safety. Here's another example of the informational websites we've created to help keep consumers informed:The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) estimates that 48 million-foodborne illness cases occur in the United States every year...

Japanese Food Monitored, Safe So Far

Posted on March 19, 2011
As the plumes of nuclear smoke first began to rise over Japan's destabilized Fukushima nuclear plant, so did concerns that food coming from that country might contain radioactive material. The only thing not on the rise is the level of radiation in Japanese food, which at present remains at normal levels...

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Serrano Peppers Recalled for Possible Salmonella

Posted on March 19, 2011
A California company has recalled 300 cases of Serrano peppers, imported from Mexico, because they may be contaminated with Salmonella.World Variety Produce, Inc., of Los Angeles said the recalled peppers were sold in Walmart stores in Wisconsin, Montana, Utah and Wyoming and Jewel-Osco stores in Illinois from March 1 through March 18...

New Lawsuit Challenges USDA Approval of GE Alfalfa

Posted on March 19, 2011
As promised, attorneys for the Center for Food Safety and Earthjustice filed a lawsuit against the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Friday, contending the agency erred when it allowed genetically engineered Roundup Ready alfalfa to be grown without restrictions...

Seafood Processors Not Following the Rules

Posted on March 18, 2011
Seafood processors in California, North Carolina, Texas, and Louisiana are recent recipients of warning letters from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for violations found during inspections.FDA released the warnings letters, which datie back to Dec...

More Whey Protein Recalled in Canada

Posted on March 18, 2011
The Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) is warning the public not to consume the Jump 6 brand Strawberry Flavour Whey Protein because the product may be contaminated with Salmonella.This recall is related to a larger recall of whey protein products by Vitalabs...

Listeria Test Prompts Recall of Wieners, Sausages

Posted on March 18, 2011
An Ohio company has recalled approximately 200 pounds of ready-to-eat wieners, beef wieners and small-link smoked sausage because they may be contaminated with Listeria monocytogenes.According to a news release, the potential problem at Sugar Valley Meats of Sugarcreek, OH, was discovered as a result of routine sampling by the Ohio Department of Agriculture...

Competition Calls for New Apps to Promote Health

Posted on March 18, 2011
This spring, teams of college and university students are being challenged to create an application that uses available health data to promote better health in their communities. A competition organized by the Institute of Medicine (IOM) and the National Academy of Engineering (NAE) asks students to identify a health problem in their community, such as smoking or obesity, and design a web-based, mobile or SMS platform that harnesses available data to help people make healthier, more informed choices...

States Consider Bans on Farm Photos

Posted on March 18, 2011
In the past decade, modern industrial agriculture has experienced a stream of negative media attention, a significant departure from the typical pastoral image of American farming. The livestock industry in particular has come under fire with the release of undercover videos exposing animal cruelty...

Hold off on Radiation Remedies, FDA Advises

Posted on March 18, 2011
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration said Thursday there is no current need to take potassium iodide pills because of the recent leak of nuclear material in Japan. Potassium Iodide (KI) blocks the thyroid gland from absorbing Iodine-131, the harmful element produced by nuclear radiation...

Task Force Issues Antibiotic Resistance Report

Posted on March 18, 2011
Drug-resistant pathogens are a growing menace. The speed at which they're emerging, and the size of the problem, constitute an urgent public health threat, says a federal interagency task force.That ominous message is part of a draft action plan released for public comment this week by the co-chairs of the task force -- the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Food and Drug Administration and National Institutes of Health...

No, You Can't Claim Candy is Good For You!

Posted on March 17, 2011
Baltimore's Goetze's Candy is making a nutritional claim it cannot back up, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration charged in a March 4 warning letter to the company.Those delectable Goetz's Caramel Cream Double Chocolates in the 9-ounce package should not make the claim on the label that they are "Fortified With Calcium," FDA said...

Dairy Misusing Animal Drugs Gets Second Warning

Posted on March 17, 2011
Michigan's Amting Dairy Farm -- located at Marshall near the Intersection of Interstates 69 and 94 -- has a mid-sized herd of dairy cows and is a fairly typical for the Wolverine State.Also becoming fairly typical is how Amting fared in a recent inspection by the U...

Don't Let Corned Beef Make Your Guests Green

Posted on March 17, 2011
Those of us on the USDA's Meat and Poultry Hotline can always tell when St. Patrick's Day approaches. Starting in early March, we begin to receive lots of questions about corned beef: How do you prepare it? How can you tell when it's safely cooked? How long can you store it?While a traditional dinner of corned beef and cabbage may bring you the "luck of the Irish," you can't rely on good luck to ensure that your meal is food safe...

Japan Nuclear Crisis Raises Food, Water Anxieties

Posted on March 17, 2011
Fear is spreading faster than contamination following leaks of radioactive material at the damaged nuclear power plant in Japan. While the situation is changing rapidly, so far any potential threat to food, water and air safety remains minimal. Food Supply Japan has one of the world's best food safety systems and imports more food than it exports, but some nations have expressed concerns that foods produced in Japan might be contaminated with radioactive material...

New Standards for Reducing Pathogens in Poultry

Posted on March 17, 2011
Trying to cut the risk of foodborne illnesses caused by contaminated raw poultry, the U.S. Department of Agriculture on Wednesday announced stricter standards to reduce Salmonella and Campylobacter in young chickens and turkey.The new baseline standards take effect in July...

Third Party Audits Accredited, If Not Respected

Posted on March 17, 2011
Maybe it was a poor choice of words, but it was an honest expression from top field management of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA).Barbara Cassens, FDA's district director in San Francisco, was asked about accreditation for third-party auditors while participating in a panel at a recent Produce Marketing Association gathering...

Is a Vaccine for Norovirus Near?

Posted on March 16, 2011
Ohio State University scientists say they could be well on their way to developing a safe vaccine against norovirus -- the pathogen that causes millions of gastrointestinal illnesses every year in the United States.In a EurekAlert news release Tuesday, the researchers say their experimental vaccine against the human norovirus can generate a strong immune response in mice without appearing to cause the animals any harm...

Online Map Tracks Antibiotic Resistance Trends

Posted on March 16, 2011
An online tool called ResistanceMap, on The Center for Disease Dynamics, Economics & Policy website, can be used to track the rise in antibiotic-resistant pathogens like methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) and ciprofloxacin-resistant E...

Another Peppermint Tea Brand Recalled in Canada

Posted on March 16, 2011
Another tea brand has been added to the recall of organic peppermint herbal tea that may be contaminated with Salmonella. First announced March 7, in the United States, the recall involves tea produced by Aromatics Inc. of Basin City, WA. It has involved tea retailed by the Atlanta-based Teavana chain, RemedyTeas in Seattle and Metropolitan Tea Co...

Herring, Sprats Recalled in New York City

Posted on March 16, 2011
A fish company in Queens, New York, is recalling herring and smoked sprats because the products were found to be uneviscerated.D&M Smoked Fish, Inc. announced the recall of Haifa brand Schmaltz Herring and Cold Smoked Sprats after routine sampling by a New York State Agriculture and Markets food inspector and analysis by New York State Food Laboratory personnel confirmed the fish were not properly eviscerated prior to processing...

Industry Circles Wagons to Fight 'Food Safety Tax'

Posted on March 16, 2011
The food industry is telling Congress it is all for food safety, it just does not want to pay for it.No less than 17 food industry organizations signed on to that message, which came in the form of a letter to the congressmen in charge of the budget for the U...

Paper: Medicated Feed Poses Risks for Humans

Posted on March 16, 2011
Administering antibiotics to animals via feed leads to inconsistencies in how much of the drugs they intake, thus contributing to the growth of antibiotic-resistant strains of bacteria, according to a new commentary. In a paper published this month in Environmental Health Perspectives, experts from Johns Hopkins University and Animal Welfare Approved argue that letting animals "choose" how much of an antibiotic they take by putting it into their feed can pose a severe health risks to humans by allowing drug-resistant bacteria to develop...

Relaxing the Rules for Small, Local Food Sellers

Posted on March 16, 2011
Over the past decade, the local food revival in the U.S. has gained tremendous momentum, with more consumers interested in where their food comes from, how it's grown, and who does the growing. The movement is making an impact on the law books, too: When the Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA) hit President Obama's desk at the beginning of the year, it included regulation exemptions for small food producers who sell the majority of their harvest locally...

Outbreak Touches Prominent Oregon Political Family

Posted on March 15, 2011
Who would have thought that when Minnesota went fishing for whomever was responsible for an E. coli outbreak in the Midwest, they'd reel in the hazelnut baron of Oregon's Willamette Valley?Reeling in big fish is not that unusual for Minnesota's food detectives, but the Oregon political family they've put in the spotlight is not accustomed to the sort of attention it is getting from being a part of a small, but nasty, outbreak off in the Midwest...

Nestl� Calls Back 10,260 Pounds of Lean Cuisine

Posted on March 15, 2011
Lean Cuisine frozen spaghetti dinners with meatballs are not supposed to include pieces of hard plastic, but that's what consumers in Minnesota and Wisconsin found.No one has been injured from biting into the objects. Gaffney, SC-based Nestl� Prepared Foods Co...

Research Aims to Reduce E. coli Shed by Cattle

Posted on March 15, 2011
Michigan State University has received a $2.5 million grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture to find ways to reduce the amount of E. coli released by cattle, and in effect, decrease the number of foodborne illness in humans."More than 70,000 people become ill due to shiga toxin-producing E...

FDA Asked to Revise Fish-Consumption Advice

Posted on March 15, 2011
Two senators are urging the Food and Drug Administration to revise its recommendations on how much fish pregnant and nursing women can safely eat.In a letter to FDA Commissioner Margaret Hamburg, Sens. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY) and Tom Coburn (R-OK) ask that the agency's recommendations be changed to reflect those of the recently released 2010 Dietary Guidelines for Americans...

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