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Food Safety News

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Alfalfa Sprouts Recalled for Salmonella

Posted on October 09, 2010
Salmonella contamination led to a recall of alfalfa sprouts by Living Foods, Inc. of Ionia, Michigan, this week after one of the company's retail-size packages of alfalfa sprouts tested positive for Salmonella.The alfalfa sprouts subject to recall were distributed to retail and food service facilities in Michigan through wholesale produce suppliers...

Deli Turkey, Ham, Ground Beef Recalled for E. coli

Posted on October 09, 2010
The New York State Department of Agriculture and Markets announced Friday that the Hamilton Corner Meat Market is recalling all in-store ground beef, in-store sliced deli turkey and in-store sliced ham sold on Sept. 29 for potential E. coli O157:H7 contamination...

Haifa Smoked Fish Recalled for Listeria

Posted on October 09, 2010
D & M Smoked Fish, Inc., which does business as Haifa Smoked Fish, announced this week that the company was recalling specific lots of its Haifa Smoked Fish brand products due to potential contamination with Listeria monocytogenes. The recalled products, which were sold in vacuum-packed plastic packaging, were sold between Aug...

Court Asked to Shut Down Brooklyn Juice Company

Posted on October 08, 2010
Federal officials have gone to court to prevent a Brooklyn company from any further processing and distributing of its juice products.The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), represented by the Department of Justice (DOJ), has asked for a permanent junction against Delores H...

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FDA Says BC Cannery Retort Operation Needs Fixing

Posted on October 08, 2010
A Nanaimo cannery on Canada's Vancouver Island could see its canned sockeye salmon blocked from entry to the United States if it does not quickly fix its low-acid canning process.St. Jeans Cannery Ltd. in British Columbia received a Sept. 28 warning letter from the U...

Food Protection Institute Exceeds Training Goal

Posted on October 08, 2010
The International Food Protection Training Institute (IFPTI) announced this week that it has trained 1,138 food safety regulators, exceeding its training goal of 1,000 officials for 2010. The institute is a non-profit organization that provides standards-based food protection training to state and local food safety officials...

There's Risk in Eating Raw Oysters

Posted on October 08, 2010
Each year millions of Americans enjoy raw oysters with a squeeze of lemon or perhaps a dash of hot sauce. However, when eaten raw, this tasty mollusk poses certain health risks.Last month, the Florida Department of Health issued a press release warning residents with certain health conditions to avoid eating raw oysters and exposing open wounds to seawater and estuarine due to the potential exposure to Vibrio vulnificus bacteria...

Campylobacter in New York Traced to Raw Clams

Posted on October 08, 2010
In an official statement from the Onondaga County Health Department early this week, Health Commissioner Cynthia Morrow said she expected the number of ill people associated with a Campylobacter outbreak associated with Hinerwadel's Grove clambake restaurant in Syracuse, NY to grow...

Insects Unlikely Vectors for E. coli in Greens

Posted on October 08, 2010
What happens to lettuce leaves and other leafy greens that become contaminated with E. coli O157:H7 and then suffer insect or mechanical damage?Can the bacteria then become internalized, in other words, get inside the greens and become impossible to wash off?That's what a dozen University of Georgia researchers tried to find out...

California Urged to Rescind Grant for Produce PR

Posted on October 08, 2010
More than 50 organizations asked California officials to rescind a $180,000 federally funded grant awarded last month to the Alliance for Food and Farming (AFF), an industry communications group that focuses on food safety and pesticide use. The groups opposed to the grant, which include the Environmental Working Group, National Resources Defense Council, and the Organic Consumers Association, say the AFF is an "agribusiness public relations campaign" that shouldn't be supported with taxpayer dollars...

Quebec Pork Processor Slapped with $62,000 Fine

Posted on October 07, 2010
A Quebec pork processor twice named as one of Canada's best-managed companies is being fined $62,000 for multiple violations of the federal Meat Inspection Act.The Court of Quebec fined ATRAHAN Transformation Inc., which exports port to about 50 counties, after the processor plead guilty to 27 violations of Canada's Meat Inspection Act and Regulations...

Evergreen State Seafood Processor Gets FDA Warning

Posted on October 07, 2010
Pickled herring, pickled wild salmon, and smoked salmon---all refrigerated products--from a Washington state seafood processor are all adulterated or impure, the U.S. Food & Drug Administration (FDA) has found.In a Sept. 22 warning letter to Quality Plus Products Inc...

Mobile Slaughter Unit Info Session Today in CO

Posted on October 07, 2010
The Agriculture Department is holding another in its series of mobile slaughter unit information sessions today in Fort Collins, CO as part of its "Know Your Farmer, Know Your Food" initiative. The session will focus on red meat slaughter.Mobile slaughter units are self-contained slaughter facilities that can travel from site to site...

Campylobacter Outbreak Detected in Central NY

Posted on October 07, 2010
The Onondaga County Health Department and New York State Department of Health announced this week that an uptick in laboratory-confirmed Campylobacter cases has been detected in Central New York state. According to a health department press release, at least 7 people became ill with campylobacteriosis, the illness caused by the ingestion of Campylobacter bacteria, after eating at Hinerwadel's Grove clambake facility on September 15, 2010...

Tour de France Champion Blames Steak for Steroids

Posted on October 07, 2010
Tour de France champion Alberto Contador was suspended from cycling after he tested positive for clenbuteral, a growth accelerating drug used by body builders. His defense? It wasn't me, it was my dinner.Cantador claims he ate a steak contaminated with the clenbuteral on a Tour de France off day in July, a meal that caused his blood to test positive for a "small concentration" of the drug, which is sometimes illegally given to cattle...

FDA Aims to Update Its Regulatory Science

Posted on October 07, 2010
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration yesterday unveiled an overview of initiatives to advance regulatory science and help the agency assess the "safety, efficacy, quality and performance of FDA-regulated products."The agency's White Paper was released at the National Press Club in Washington, DC by FDA Commissioner Dr...

Michael Jacobson Wins Foundation Hero Award

Posted on October 06, 2010
Co-founder and executive director of the Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI), Michael F. Jacobson, received the 2010 Centers for Disease Control (CDC) Foundation Hero Award this week.The CDC Foundation honored Jacobson for his, "instrumental role in improving public health by championing science-based nutrition and food safety initiatives, empowering consumers to make healthful choices and encouraging scientists to engage in public interest activities...

Straight Talk About Feeding Antibiotics to Animals

Posted on October 06, 2010
It is time for some straight talk about the risks of using massive amounts of antibiotics in livestock and poultry. I don't know one infectious disease expert who would disagree that there are direct links between antibiotic use in food animals and antibiotic resistance in people...

UN Outlines First Global Aquaculture Standards

Posted on October 06, 2010
After four years of discussion and debate, the first global guidelines for aquaculture, the planet's fastest growing food sector, were adopted by a UN Food and Agriculture Organization panel last week. The guidelines--which are non-binding but provide a framework for certification--were adopted by the subcommittee on Aquaculture of the Committee on Fisheries and cover a variety of issues ranging from food safety to environmental impact to the socioeconomic status of aquaculture workers...

Wyoming Food Freedom Bill Clears Committee

Posted on October 06, 2010
Wyoming's Joint Agriculture Committee decided yesterday to sponsor the hotly contested Wyoming Food Freedom Bill in next year's legislative session. The bill, which was introduced by Rep. Sue Wallis, R-Recluse, would exempt all "cottage foods", or foods prepared in home kitchens and sold directly to consumers, from regulation...

Learn the Basics to Keep Food Safe at Home

Posted on October 06, 2010
The always unpleasant and sometimes devastating effects of foodborne illness are often compounded by the knowledge that the illness could have been prevented. Basic actions in the kitchen during preparation and storage of food can greatly reduce the likelihood of infection...

Salmonella Investigation Continues in Oklahoma

Posted on October 05, 2010
An outbreak of Salmonella is now believed to have sickened 17 people in Oklahoma and health officials continue to investigate similar strains in Iowa and Nebraska.The two new suspected cases have not been confirmed through lab tests, the Oklahoman newspaper reported yesterday...

Norovirus Linked to Oysters In British Columbia

Posted on October 05, 2010
Uncooked oysters from Canada's Pacific Coast have been confirmed as the source of a norovirus outbreak. according to the British Columbia Center for Disease Control.Oysters making people ill have been traced to a section of Effingham Inlet on Vancouver Island's west coast...

With DC Salad Bars, United Fresh Now in 50 Schools

Posted on October 05, 2010
The United Fresh Foundation's A Salad Bar in Every School campaign has donated two new salad bars to public schools in the Washington, DC area, for a total of 50 salad bars to schools in need of more fruits and veggies.Earlier this month, Friendship Public Charter School and the Imagine Southeast Public Charter School received new salad bars through the program during the United Fresh Washington Public Policy Conference...

From Potlucks to Peanuts: How PulseNet Began

Posted on October 05, 2010
Just 15 years ago, outbreaks of foodborne illness were relatively small and local, often traced to undercooked meat or poultry at a neighborhood restaurant or church supper. Today, incidents such as last year's PCA peanut outbreak are regional or national, sickening hundreds of people, and are eventually traced to major food production plants or to distant farms...

UK Will Tackle Foodborne Campylobacter

Posted on October 05, 2010
About 65 percent of raw chicken in the United Kingdom is contaminated with Campylobacter, a bacteria that sickens about 300,000 people each year, and the UK's Food Standards Agency has made reducing those levels its top priority, its chief scientist said yesterday...

Small Farm, BPA Debates Won't Fade from Food Bill

Posted on October 05, 2010
The debates over whether to grant small farm exemptions or ban bisphenol-A from some products are likely to follow the beleaguered food safety bill if it is brought to a vote during the Senate's lame duck session, according to sources on Capitol Hill...

'Locally Grown' Gets Bay State's Seal of Approval

Posted on October 04, 2010
The Massachusetts Department of Agricultural Resources (DAR) and farm, fishery and forestry leaders this week announced the "Commonwealth Quality" joint initiative, a program to promote local agriculture and help consumers more easily identify products that are produced, harvested, and responsibly processed in the Bay State...

PMA, Sysco Bring Food Safety Training to Orlando

Posted on October 04, 2010
The Produce Marketing Association (PMA), Sysco Corporation and Primuslabs.com will hold a local grower training in Orlando, FL on October 13.The one-day workshop is designed to help local growers explore the challenges of implementing a company food safety plan, meet the requirements of restaurant and retail outlets, and above all, protect their business and bottom line...

Winnipeg E. coli Outbreak Linked to Fruit Compote

Posted on October 04, 2010
People who fell ill after visiting the Russian pavilion at Winnipeg's Folklorama in August had likely eaten fruit compote contaminated with E. coli, according to the Winnipeg Health Authority. A report published by the Winnipeg Health Region said 37 of the 40 people who were infected with the same strain of E...

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