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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

Tea Party Foes of Food Safety Bill Grow Louder

Posted on November 22, 2010
Food safety legislation that came close to a vote in the Senate last week, before stalling over a political debate about earmarks, has another enemy: the Tea Party movement.Tea Party Patriots, a major organizational component of the Tea Party movement, sent an action alert to its followers late last week asking them to call members of Congress to "melt their phones and tell them (yet again) why this is a bad bill and why we don't want it...

Letter From The Editor: Moving Plum Island

Posted on November 21, 2010
Usually you risk getting arrested if you go some place where they want to see you naked and fondle you, but now you just have to go to the airport.All the uproar in the last week about the Transportation Security Agency's (TSA's) bonehead screening policies had me thinking that this must be happening to draw attention away from something else...

Publisher's Platform: Tea with a Cup of Crazy

Posted on November 21, 2010
I know people get worked up over legislation--health care being a recent example--but the blather coming from the Tea Party types about food safety is a bit over the top, even for them. Here are my favorite Tweets of the week about the Senate struggle to vote on safe food:"You know what's next after food safety? Socialism and shariah law...

Natural Alternatives to Chemical Preservatives

Posted on November 20, 2010
Extracts from culinary ingredients such as green tea, grape seed and spices could be used instead of chemical preservatives as a way to protect against foodborne pathogens like Listeria, according to researchers at the University of Arkansas.A newsletter from the Food Safety Consortium at the University of Arkansas Division of Agriculture recently reported that food processing companies might soon have such natural alternatives...

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Residue Gets in Human Food from Animal Drug Misuse

Posted on November 19, 2010
The Pastime Lakes Dairy located near Lakeview, CA apparently did not get the memo. Here's the information Pastime missed:"Cattle must not be slaughtered for human consumption within 4 days of the last treatment. Milk that has been taken during treatment and for 36 hours after the last treatment must not be used for food...

U.S. Falling Short on Worldwide Safe Water

Posted on November 19, 2010
The United States isn't doing enough to help the 2.6 billion people worldwide who do not have safe water or adequate sanitation, 14 advocacy groups said in a report released Thursday. According to the Natural Resources Defense Council, WaterAid, CARE and 11 other organizations, this lack of progress comes despite the Water for the Poor Act, which became law in 2005...

Canada Adopts Another Food Safety Recommendation

Posted on November 19, 2010
A 7-member Ministerial Advisory Board (MAB) of the Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) has been named by Gerry Ritz, Canada's Agricultural Minister.Ritz said the appointments are "another step to strengthen Canada's food safety system" and include a diverse range of experts from the food, animal, and plant health sectors...

Brits Cooler About Food Risks Than Others in EU

Posted on November 19, 2010
The British take a more measured approach to possible food safety risks than their neighbors on the European continent, a new European Union food survey found.The food survey, carried out by the European Food Safety Authority, asked about 27,000 consumers across the EU a range of questions relating to the possible risks associated with food...

Cheese Outbreak: A Study in Good Epidemiology

Posted on November 19, 2010
It may be only a rarity that a widely contaminated food product distributed to a major grocery chain all over an entire region of the country does not cause many severe illnesses.Even though there are at least 37 confirmed illnesses in the E. coli outbreak involving Gouda-style cheese, many people probably escaped severe illness under some relatively difficult epidemiological circumstances...

Tahitian Fruit Could Extend Meat Shelf Life

Posted on November 19, 2010
For many consumers, color can be the deciding factor when purchasing meat or poultry at the grocery store. Slightly brown or faded meat may appear to have been sitting on the shelf for too long. However, color changes are quite normal even for fresh products, maintains the USDA's Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS), which says it is a common misconception that slightly discolored meat is no longer fresh or safe to eat...

Cholera Case Identified in Florida

Posted on November 19, 2010
A woman who recently returned to Florida from Haiti has a laboratory-confirmed case of cholera, Florida Department of Health (FDOH) officials announced Thursday."We are working with our health care partners to ensure appropriate care of this individual and prevent the spread of this disease within the community," said Dr...

Politics, Small Farm Deal Stall Food Safety Bill

Posted on November 19, 2010
After a long day of debating--and waiting--Thursday, the Senate was at impasse over the details and politics surrounding the food safety bill.Though Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) said earlier this week he would, if necessary, keep the Senate in town over the weekend to finish the bill, sources on the Hill said it was more likely the legislation would not move forward until after Thanksgiving recess, which begins Monday...

Bad Grade for Annual Fruit and Veggie Report Card

Posted on November 18, 2010
Efforts to increase fruit and vegetable consumption in the United States have not been effective, a report released Wednesday concluded. In its 2010 Report Card, the National Fruit and Vegetable Alliance tried to measure the nation's progress in the five years since the group unveiled its National Action Plan to Promote Health Through Increased Fruit and Vegetable Consumption...

Listeria Prompts Washington Cheese Recall

Posted on November 18, 2010
Del Bueno of Grandview, Washington has recalled all of its 1- or 3-pound packages of Queso Fresco Fresh Cheese, Queso Panela Fresh Cheese, Requeson Mexican Style Ricotta Cheese and Queso Enchilado Dry Cheese because they have the potential to be contaminated with Listeria monocytogenes...

Quesos Mi Pueblito Listeria Problems Bring Its End

Posted on November 18, 2010
Almost a year after the Food and Drug Administration originally sought a federal court order to put a New Jersey manufacturer of Mexican cheese and two of its officers out of business, FDA has persuaded a federal judge to take that action. The judge's order puts Felix Sanchez and Jesus Galvez out of the cheese business and closes down Quesos Mi Pueblito, LLC, the company that never was able to get ahead of its Listeria contamination problems...

Listeria Warning for Ham and Cheese Sandwiches

Posted on November 18, 2010
Canadians are being warned not to eat ham and cheese sandwiches prepared by Atlantic Prepared Food Limited and distributed on Prince Edward Island and in Nova Scotia and possibly other Atlantic provinces.The Nov. 16 warning by the Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) and Atlantic Prepared Food Limited (APFL) stems from concern that the food products may be contaminated with Listeria monocytogenes...

Feds Declare Caffeinated Alcohol Drinks Unsafe

Posted on November 18, 2010
The Food and Drug Administration Wednesday warned four companies that the caffeine blended into their malt-alcohol beverages is an "unsafe food additive" and threatened to take action, including seizure of their products, to halt the sale of the drinks...

Video Shows Why Caged Chickens May Get Salmonella

Posted on November 18, 2010
To underscore two hot-button issues -- animal cruelty and food safety -- and to offer some evidence on why caged laying hens are more likely to be susceptible to Salmonella, the Humane Society of the United States put one of its undercover operatives into a Cal-Maine egg production facility in Texas...

Senate Food Safety Bill Moves Ahead

Posted on November 18, 2010
The Senate made substantial progress on the pending Food Safety Bill Wednesday. To move the sweeping food bill forward, the upper chamber voted 74-25 to limit debate, circumventing Sen. Tom Coburn's (R-OK) objection. And key stakeholders resolved the two controversial issues that have plagued the bill: bisphenol A and small farm exemptions...

Five Processors' Seafood is Adulterated, FDA Says

Posted on November 17, 2010
If U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) district directors are not on a mission to clean up seafood processors, it sure looks like it.In recently released warning letters, FDA put five more seafood processor on notice that they've got to correct violations or face more serious enforcement actions...

SanGar Court Date Cancelled, Closure Order Stands

Posted on November 17, 2010
A court date between SanGar Fresh Cut Produce and the Texas Department of State Health Services scheduled for today has been cancelled."It means the closure order stands," says Carrie Williams, the department's press officer.The State of Texas closed the SanGar produce processing plant in San Antonio on Oct...

NOAA Opens More Gulf Waters to Fishing

Posted on November 17, 2010
At its height, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) closure of Gulf of Mexico waters to fishing covered an area larger than the State of Minnesota. Now at just over 1,000 square miles, the closed area is just big enough to no hold no more than two or three big American cities...

FDA Moves to Ban Alcoholic Energy Drinks

Posted on November 17, 2010
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is expected to rule this week that caffeine is an unsafe food additive to alcoholic beverages, Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY) announced Tuesday.The agency's ruling will effectively prohibit the sale of controversial alcoholic energy drinks in the United States...

Using the Sun to Make Water Safe to Drink

Posted on November 17, 2010
In 2001, Bob Dell left his career as a water treatment scientist to volunteer for children affected by AIDS in Africa. But when he followed a group of Ugandan children to their local water source and saw that they drank from the same pond as the cows, he found a whole new focus for his expertise: finding a clean water source for these children...

Non-alcohol Energy Drinks Questioned

Posted on November 17, 2010
Celia Hassan starts each day by reaching into her fridge and opening a can of Monster Energy."I crack one open every morning like clockwork," said Hassan, a 21-year old political science major at Reed College in Portland, Oregon.At a time when national attention is being focused on energy drinks that contain alcohol, which have been banned in several states, the non-booze brands like Hassan favors are not getting much publicity...

Senate to Take Key Vote on Food Safety Bill Today

Posted on November 17, 2010
The Senate is scheduled to vote today on a cloture motion for the long-awaited FDA Food Safety Modernization Act, or S. 510. The cloture vote, which eliminates the threat of filibuster by limiting debate, is a key step forward for the beleaguered bill...

Warning Issued in UK About Glass in Budweiser

Posted on November 16, 2010
Some beer in Britain may contain small pieces of glass.Anheuser-Busch InBev, known simply as ABInBev, has recalled a batch of Budweiser that went out in 15-packs with 300 ml bottles with a "Born On" date of Sept. 14, 2010 from "production site 107."The United Kingdom's Food Standards Agency would not reveal the location of site 107...

Reusable Grocery Bags: Time to Get the Lead Out?

Posted on November 16, 2010
Previous reports that reusable shopping bags can collect bacteria did little to dissuade some people from using them.Now, however, in further proof that there's likely something environmentally wrong with most everything, the Tampa Tribune reports that reusable bags sold by two grocery store chains, Winn-Dixie and Publix, contain lead that could, after disposal, leach into groundwater...

Food Industry to Write UK Diet and Health Policy?

Posted on November 16, 2010
I had a good laugh when Dick Jackson, who chairs the Environmental Health Sciences department at UCLA's School of Public Health, forwarded this article: "McDonald's and PepsiCo to help write UK health policy."I assumed this was another priceless piece from The Onion, whose recent article on the effects of the U...

House Urged to Pass Child Nutrition Bill

Posted on November 16, 2010
Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack and Education Secretary Arne Duncan have urged lawmakers to act quickly on a bill they say will improve school meals.In a joint statement Monday, Vilsack and Duncan highlighted opportunities for improving the National School Lunch and School Breakfast Programs through the child nutrition bill pending in the House...

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