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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

Food Safety Firm Supports Education

Posted on October 26, 2010
The Rock Island-Milan Education Foundation, a nonprofit education foundation in Illinois, recently received a $25,000 donation towards its Science Scholarship for high school seniors.The Science Scholarship will be offered to Rock Island High School students who are interested in pursuing a college degree and then a career in a science field...

Study: HUS Rate in OK E. coli O111 Outbreak High

Posted on October 26, 2010
The hemolytic uremic syndrome (HUS) rate seen in two years ago in Oklahoma's outbreak of E. coli O111:NM was comparable to that typically seen in E. coli O157:H7-related outbreaks, according to a new study reported the current issue of the Archives of Internal Medicine...

Tea Party Candidate: Food Safety Up To Voters

Posted on October 26, 2010
As the Tea Party emerges as a dominant force in this contentious midterm election cycle, so does the movement's policy platform. One tea partier recently shined a bit of light on the party's food regulatory philosophy: It's up to us, not the government...

Charges Against Fish Bar Owner Headed to Court

Posted on October 26, 2010
The former owner of the Llay Fish Bar will be back in the magistrates' court on Dec. 9.Ramazan Aslan, 35, is charged with nine counts of breaching food hygiene regulations. Aslan, who is free on unconditional bail, will likely see is case committed to crown court...

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Debate Over Small Farm Exemptions Rolls On

Posted on October 26, 2010
With the food safety bill slated to be taken up by the Senate in mid-November--after moving at a snail's pace for a year--the chatter about the bill's impact, especially on the burgeoning local food movement, is on the uptick. The debate centers around an amendment proposed by Senator Jon Tester (D-MT) and supported by Sen...

UN Declares Deadly Cattle Disease Eradicated

Posted on October 26, 2010
For millennia, rinderpest, a deadly cattle disease, has wreaked havoc on livestock and wildlife populations on three continents, resulting in massive animal death, extensive human famine, and loss of draught animal power in agricultural communities throughout the 18th, 19th and 20th centuries...

How the Estrella Family Creamery Raid Came Down

Posted on October 26, 2010
Last week's seizure of all the cheeses and other food products from the Estrella Family Creamery was more by the book than "Gestapo-like."U.S. District Attorney for Western Washington Jenny A. Durkan's office Monday released court documents leading up to the seizures, which were apparently carried out at around 5:30 p...

DNA Tracks Asian Carp's March to Great Lakes

Posted on October 25, 2010
DNA sampling of Indiana ports and harbors near Lake Michigan by researchers from the University of Notre Dame has found no evidence of Asian carp making it into those areas.Court action, however, continues based on the DNA evidence that has been found...

Company Says Salt Substitute Adds Magnesium

Posted on October 25, 2010
With research suggesting that diets with inadequate sodium-to-magnesium and sodium-to-potassium ratios may be as much of a problem as diets with too much sodium, the Scoular Company has created Smart Salt, a product it says reduces sodium yet offers a healthy source of magnesium...

Improving Consumer Trust in Today's Food System

Posted on October 25, 2010
In early October, I had the pleasure of attending the 5th Annual Center for Food Integrity (CFI) Food System Summit in Chicago. This year's Summit brought together a diverse group of food system members including farmers, producers, processors, manufacturers, academicians, food scientists, health professionals and others to hear from food safety and nutrition experts on key issues facing the food system...

FDA, US Marshals Seize Creamery's Cheese

Posted on October 25, 2010
The Estrella Family Creamery of Montesano, Washington, had a booth at Seattle's University District farmers market this weekend, but cheese was not on display at the creamery's stand. Instead, Anthony and Kelli Estrella were showing off current inspection records...

Leading Food Companies Move to Phase Out BPA

Posted on October 25, 2010
As consumer concerns about bisphenol-A mount and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration re-reviews the safety of the controversial food packaging chemical, America's largest food companies are taking the issue into their own hands."Companies are actually moving faster than regulators in phasing out BPA from food and beverage packaging," says Emily Stone of Green Century Capital Management, an environmentally conscious investment firm...

In the Food Revolution, Vote with Your Fork

Posted on October 25, 2010
Much of what we eat and how we eat it is decided by politicians and on Wall Street, according to Marion Nestle.Nestle, author and public health and sociology professor at New York University, discussed the corporate and political influences on American agriculture industry during a recent appearance at the University of Washington in Seattle, part of the school's "Food: Eating your Environment" lecture series...

Research Shows Food Safety Managers Have Impact

Posted on October 25, 2010
Having a designated food safety manager matters, according to research released by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration Friday. FDA called for increased efforts to improve food safety practices in retail food establishments, specifically ensuring the presence of food safety managers...

Letter From The Editor: Catfish

Posted on October 24, 2010
Early during the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, I found myself in a small Mississippi take-out restaurant nearing the order counter while still reading the menu when I noticed there was a "Catfish Po Boy" on the menu. Suddenly it was my turn, so I asked: "Domestic catfish?""There is no other kind, Hon," I was told...

Publisher's Platform: A Meal from Hell

Posted on October 24, 2010
It is time to pass S. 510 BEFORE this is on the Senate Dining Room Menu:Next week I will be co-chairing the ACI Foodborne Illness Litigation Conference in Chicago and co-hosting an evening meal for speakers. I had to approve the dinner menu, which got me thinking (after nearly 20 years) about what a Marler Clark Potluck would look like...

Texas Salmonella Victim Sues Egg Producer

Posted on October 23, 2010
Wright County Egg, one of two egg companies whose products resulted in over 1,500 Salmonella cases nationwide this year, was sued by another outbreak victim yesterday. The most recent lawsuit, filed by the Seattle-based Marler Clark law firm, was filed in Federal District Court in Iowa yesterday on behalf of a Brookshire, Texas resident...

Closed SanGar Turns to Independent Lab

Posted on October 23, 2010
After third-party audits turned out to be embarrassments for Peanut Corporation of America and Wright County Egg, the independent inspection industry must be hoping the "third strike" won't come at a now closed Texas produce plant.SanGar Produce & Processing Co...

Celery Processor Tied to Outbreak Disputes Tests

Posted on October 22, 2010
The president of the company whose plant was shut down by the Texas Department of State Health Services has questioned the validity of tests linking celery processed there to a deadly Listeria outbreak.Kenneth Sanquist Jr. of Sangar Produce & Processing in San Antonio said in a statement Thursday that the state used flawed collection methods, including improper attire, unrefrigerated transport of samples and a delay between collections and lab tests...

Subway Salmonella Outbreak Linked to Supplier

Posted on October 22, 2010
The source of the outbreak of Salmonella at Illinois Subway restaurants in late April and June may have been a food distributor in the central part of the state, authorities said Thursday.In a final, 69-page report on the outbreak, the Illinois Department of Public Health said it could not identify the exact source of the problem, but that the "most likely source" of the lettuce, tomatoes and olives linked to the illnesses was Lincoln-based Sysco Central Illinois Inc...

SF to Get Easier Web Access to Restaurant Reports

Posted on October 22, 2010
The San Francisco Health Commission approved a resolution Tuesday to hire more health inspectors and to give the public easier online access to restaurant inspection reports, according to Mission Local. The panel stopped short of requiring food establishments to "post the most current inspection scorecard in a window or other locations visible to the public," the newspaper reported...

Is Flooding Cause for Food Safety Concerns?

Posted on October 22, 2010
After torrential downpour soaked their fields, some soybean farmers are being advised that they may have to destroy their crops as a food safety precaution.At issue is a 2009 notice from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration regarding the effect of natural disasters on food safety...

Some Advice to Companies in Crisis

Posted on October 22, 2010
Sangar Fresh Cut Produce is in the midst of a public relations nightmare, now that everybody who pays attention to food safety events knows that it is at the center of a Listeria outbreak that may have killed four people.Sangar's brass is taking a pretty brash stance on its implication in the outbreak, saying that the state of Texas got it wrong when it generated positive Listeria test results from samples of Sangar celery, prompting the closure of Sangar's plant and the recall of Sangar products produced since January...

NSAC Defends Small Farm Food Safety Exemptions

Posted on October 22, 2010
The National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition has pushed back against an effort to modify a food safety amendment that aims to lessen the regulatory impact on small-scale farms and food facilities. Tuesday, the Make Our Food Safe campaign emailed Senate offices soliciting support for the food safety bill, which Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) plans to bring to the floor in November...

Grandin Says Animals Will Be Hurt by GIPSA Rules

Posted on October 22, 2010
The "cowgirl superstar" whose life story won a boatload of Emmys is now speaking out about changes to livestock marketing rules that she says will have negative consequences for animal welfare.Changes to the livestock procurement rules could mean animals will be mistreated, says Colorado State University Animal Science Professor Temple Grandin...

Del Monte Recalls Cantaloupes for Salmonella

Posted on October 22, 2010
In a year when everything from alfalfa sprouts to chicken soup, and from eggs to black pepper and a lot more were recalled for Salmonella contamination, there is still time to add cantaloupes to the list.Del Monte Fresh Produce N.A. Inc. Thursday said it was recalling certain cantaloupes grown and shipped from Arizona for distribution in the Detroit area...

EU Considers Ban on Animal Cloning for Food

Posted on October 21, 2010
Although its scientific arm has said meat and milk from clones are safe to eat, the European Commission has proposed a temporary, five-year ban on animal cloning for food production.The recommendation announced Tuesday is expected to be approved by the European Union's members and the European Parliament...

New Mexico Dairy's Animal Drug Use Not Judicious

Posted on October 21, 2010
FDA's Center for Veterinary Medicine (CVM) this past summer released its draft guidance on "The Judicious Use of Medically Important Antimicrobial Drugs in Food-Producing Animals."The week before the document was released, the Dutch Valley dairy operation in Clovis, NM came in for an inspection by FDA...

Guyana Authorities Probe Cause of Mass Illness

Posted on October 21, 2010
Five persons were taken into custody in Berbice, Guyana, as health authorities investigated why more than 100 people became ill after having lunch at a community-policing retreat on Sunday.According to the Stabroek News, samples of the food and beverages served at the lunch were submitted for testing...

Legal Battle Centers on E. coli Incubation Time

Posted on October 21, 2010
An appeals court in Ontario, Canada is reviewing the 2009 conviction of two men for "serving food unfit for human consumption." A central question on appeal is the incubation period for E. coli O157:H7 infections--in other words, how long after consumption of contaminated food someone falls ill...

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