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Food Safety News

Daily online newspaper dedicated to reporting on issues surrounding food safety.
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Last Entry: March 31, 2011 at 06:59:07

Irish Child Sickened by Intravenous Supplement

Posted on September 28, 2010
Five years after suffering brain damage from an intravenous food supplement prepared with too much magnesium, an Irish child died of complications due to pneumonia.Elaine Barrett, from Galway, was born prematurely in 2003. At less than six weeks old, while still in the hospital, she was given a special food supplement...

A Blind Faith Based Approach to Food Safety

Posted on September 28, 2010
Senator Coburn is wrong. The Senate needs to pass meaningful food safety legislation immediately, not keep it on the backburner through the lame duck session so that it can start from scratch again next term. He has raised legitimate questions of cost, but even his estimated costs of implementing S...

China Cracks Down to Keep Melamine Out of Food

Posted on September 28, 2010
The Chinese government is launching a nationwide registry aimed at keeping melamine out of the food supply and in the industrial sector, where the chemical is typically used for making plastic products. China's general office of the State Council issued a notice saying the purchase and sale of the industrial chemical--which continues to show up as a dairy adulterant to create the facade of higher protein content--must be conducted on a "real-name" basis so that products can be traced, according to state media...

UK Says Most Farms Use Antibiotics Responsibly

Posted on September 28, 2010
Hardly a week goes by without the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) handing out an official warning to an American dairy farmer about the overdose of antibiotics in animals.But with 55,000 American dairy farms and a U.S. dairy herd numbering more than 9 million cows, how significant are those weekly warnings?Now a study from across the pond may shed some light on this topic...

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A Primer on Symptoms of Foodborne Illness

Posted on September 28, 2010
The Centers for Disease Prevention and Control (CDC) estimate that more than 76 million incidents of foodborne illness occur in the United States each year. Many of these cases are slight enough to not merit a visit to the doctor and go unreported...

Salmonella Found Inside Michigan Soy Flour Plant

Posted on September 27, 2010
A Michigan organic soy flour maker that appeared to be caught up in the national recall of hydrolyzed vegetable protein from a North Las Vegas food processing plant earlier this year instead had problems of its own.A June 24 warning letter to Thumb Oilseed Producers' Cooperative from the U...

Dairy Farm Sells Cow with Drug Residue in Meat

Posted on September 27, 2010
A dairy cow from a farm near Petaluma, CA was sold for slaughter as food with antibiotic levels in its edible tissues high enough to consider the meat adulterated.The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) advised Neil McIsaac & Son Inc, owner of the dairy farm, of the problem in a Sept...

NY County Gets Funds for Processing Local Meat

Posted on September 27, 2010
In an effort to support local farms and meet the demand for locally raised meat, the federal government has awarded an $800,000 grant toward the construction of a slaughterhouse in Liberty, NY, Meatingplace reported. Construction of the new $1.7 million, 5,000-square foot Southern Catskills Red Meat Processing Facility is expected to begin next spring...

Egg on Their Faces: Plenty of Blame to Go Around

Posted on September 27, 2010
Meat&Poultry magazine reported "AIB International on Sept. 23 issued a statement saying that while it conducted its GMP inspection in three of six in-shell egg grading/sorting facilities owned by Wright County Egg Co., Clarion, Iowa, it was not contracted to and did not inspect the other areas of the company's operations, including the feed milling operation, feed handling operation, hen laying barns or egg breaking facilities...

Publisher's Platform: What Should Be Done

Posted on September 27, 2010
I spent most of last week in the "other Washington." It all does make you wonder, as one Congressman quipped some time ago: "Who needs Al-Qaeda when you have got E. coli?" What would happen if we stopped the petty bickering and actually did something about food safety like:Growers:1...

Tester Offers Hope on S. 510, Help for Small Farms

Posted on September 27, 2010
Senator Jon Tester (D-MT) says he expects the Senate to approve his amendment aimed at lessening the impact of the pending food safety bill on small-scale food producers. While the fate and immediate timeline for the legislation remains highly uncertain, Tester's office released an updated version of his amendment late last week...

People Love Street Vendors, Cities Not So Sure

Posted on September 27, 2010
It's becoming an increasingly familiar sight in large cities around the country: specialty chefs selling artisan and exotic foods from mobile food carts and trucks on the cities' streets. Some cities, such as Portland, Ore., where as many as 500 carts work the streets to feed hungry residents, have embraced the phenomenon and crafted special legislation to foster its development...

Time Growing Short for Vote on Food Safety Bill

Posted on September 27, 2010
After a year of legislative limbo, the future of the food safety bill in the Senate remains highly uncertain, as the work days left before the contentious midterm elections are dwindling. Late Thursday, Senator Tom Coburn (R-OK) again rejected a Democrat attempt at bringing the foods safety bill to the floor for a vote...

Letter From The Editor: Lobbyists

Posted on September 26, 2010
Food Safety News has not yet written the obituary for S. 510, the food safety bill.Any bill that might garner as many as 90 votes in the 100-member U.S. Senate cannot be called dead until the body adjourns sine die. So we are going to keep the discussion alive until the gavel comes down for that final time...

Vilsack Asked to Clarify Position on Antibiotics

Posted on September 25, 2010
U.S. Rep. Louise Slaughter (D-NY) and Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) have asked the Obama administration to clarify its position on antibiotic use in food animals.In a letter to Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack, the lawmakers asked Vilsack to explain remarks he made Sept...

Ginger Candy Recalled in California for Lead

Posted on September 24, 2010
The California Department of Public Health (CDPH) warned consumers this week not to eat "Ginger Candy" imported from China due to potential lead contamination.According to a CDPH press release, the candy, which was manufactured by Dai jyoBu in China, and distributed by Anhing Corporation in Los Angeles, contained more than twice the amount of lead that California allows in candy products...

Sprouts Likely Source in UK Salmonella Outbreak

Posted on September 24, 2010
Raw bean sprouts are the suspected source of a Salmonella Bareilly outbreak underway since early August in the United Kingdom.An increasing number of S. Bareilly cases, now as many as 73 illnesses, are being investigated by the UK's Health Protection Agency and Food Standards Agency (FSA)...

Safe-Disposal Drug Drop-offs Set for Tomorrow

Posted on September 24, 2010
The federal Drug Enforcement Administration and local police and sheriff departments throughout the country are coordinating a special effort tomorrow to round up unused and expired prescription and over-the-counter drugs.The nationwide collection, from 10 a...

Australian Restaurant Fined for Unsafe Aioli

Posted on September 24, 2010
A restaurant in New South Wales, Australia had to pay a penalty when 170 people fell ill with Salmonella after eating there earlier this year. Investigators with the New South Wales Food Authority concluded that the cause of the January Salmonella outbreak at the Burger Bar in the town of Albury was a contaminated raw egg aioli product...

Panel Toughens Penalties for Food Safety Violators

Posted on September 24, 2010
Certain food safety violations would be felonies, rather than misdemeanor offenses, under a bill approved yesterday by the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee.The legislation, S. 3767 or the Food Safety Accountability Act, was introduced just weeks ago by Sen...

The Squabble over GM Salmon

Posted on September 24, 2010
A federal Food and Drug Administration panel has wrapped up its hearings on genetically modified salmon with no immediate recommendation on whether to approve the so-called "supersalmon" for distribution to American supermarkets.New York Times reporter Andrew Pollack reports that the panel "seemed to conclude" that GM salmon "would be safe to eat and for the environment...

Hagen Promises to Make U.S. Food Supply Safer

Posted on September 24, 2010
In her first speech as Under Secretary for Food Safety at U.S. Department of Agriculture, the government's highest ranking position in food safety, Elisabeth Hagen yesterday told an audience of food policy experts and advocates that her agency will put public health above all else...

Retailers to Face Organic Milk Consumers in Court

Posted on September 23, 2010
Organic milk consumers, who sued some of the nation's biggest retailers in 19 separate class action lawsuits, are going to get their day in court.After those actions were consolidated, U.S. District Court Judge E. Richard Webber dismissed the case in June 2009...

FDA Discovers Pests in Ethnic Food Warehouse

Posted on September 23, 2010
Over 70 tons of ethnic foods stored in a pest-infected warehouse near the intersection of Interstates 405 and 10 in southern California had to be destroyed earlier this year.Disclosure that Gardena, CA-based Shah Distributors Inc. destroyed the 73 tons of ethnic foods came in a July 15 warning letter to the company headed by Anas Shah that was made public on Sept...

Similac Baby Formula Recalled Due to Insect Parts

Posted on September 23, 2010
Abbott, the company that makes Similac-brand baby formula, is voluntarily recalling certain powder formulas after small beetles were found in one of its manufacturing plants.The company said there was a "remote possibility" that the insects or their larvae could have contaminated some of the formula...

Still No Deal: Coburn, Reid Spar on Senate Floor

Posted on September 23, 2010
Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) and Senator Tom Coburn (R-OK) sparred over the food safety bill on the Senate floor, providing no progress and more political hurdles for a bill that has been plagued by setbacks.Yesterday afternoon Coburn rejected Reid's attempt to bring the bill up under unanimous consent, a procedural move to limit debate and set rules for amendments...

Food Safety: When Logic Fails

Posted on September 23, 2010
Michael Sansolo was the chief honcho at the Food Marketing Institute for a long time before he left and joined forces with Kevin Coupe and MorningNewsBeat. He writes a column for that supermarket-oriented news and opinion service called "Sansolo Speaks...

Study Says BPA Exposure, Risk Higher Than Assumed

Posted on September 23, 2010
A new study suggests exposure to bisphenol-A (BPA) is actually much greater than previously thought, and its authors urge the federal government to act quickly to regulate the chemical that is in baby bottles, food-storage containers and many household products...

Congress Grills the Iowa Egg Execs

Posted on September 23, 2010
In a blockbuster-worthy hearing, complete with partisan bickering, a photo slideshow, and a witness pleading the Fifth, Congress yesterday grilled the executives responsible for two Iowa egg farms linked to over 1,600 illnesses. Though Jack DeCoster, who owns the company at the center of the investigation, apologized to anyone "who may have been sickened by eating our eggs," he and his son, Peter, who now runs the Iowa facility, were met with tough questioning from lawmakers...

UK Considers Feed and Food Control Rule Change

Posted on September 22, 2010
Slaughterhouses and "cutting plants" in the United Kingdom will not be able to operate while appeals are pending over decisions to deny or withdraw approvals to operate.The UK's Food Standards Agency (FSA) has proposed the rule change in amendments now pending to the official Feed and Food Control regulations...

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