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Food Safety News

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By Dan Flynn and Suzanna Schreck

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Last Entry: March 31, 2011 at 06:59:07

Source of Pizza Patrons' Illnesses Investigated

Posted on September 22, 2010
Down in Texas the Trinity Aquifer in Northern Bexar County, an area just north of San Antonio, usually can be counted on to provide safe, clean water.Fralo's Art of Pizza, a popular Italian village restaurant set in the Texas Hill Country, counts on that aquifer to serve the restaurant from its own well in Leon Springs, just off I-10...

Hagen Promises to Declare More STECs Adulterants

Posted on September 22, 2010
Less than a week after being confirmed as Under Secretary for Food Safety at the U.S. Department of Agriculture, Dr. Elisabeth Hagen met yesterday with food safety leaders in a meeting organized by former food safety Under Secretary Dr. Richard Raymond to discuss whether non-O157 shiga toxin-producing E...

Russia Reacts to Excessive Antibiotics in Pork

Posted on September 22, 2010
After what they said was the discovery of excessive antibiotics in some U.S. and European pork, Russian officials announced a ban on imports from two Smithfield processing facilities and plants in other countries. Yevgeniy Khorishko, press secretary at the Russian embassy in Washington D...

Senate Remains at Impasse Over Food Safety Bill

Posted on September 22, 2010
Despite a flurry of rumors to the contrary, the food safety bill pending in the Senate does not appear to moving anywhere fast. Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) "hotlined" the bipartisan bill yesterday, notifying senators that the legislation is ready to be considered under unanimous consent, a critical step forward, if no one objects to the guidelines for debate and amendments...

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Another Green Light to Meat & Milk from Clones

Posted on September 21, 2010
If some Americans somewhere are not already eating meat or drinking milk from clones, a new report by the European Food Safety Agency probably means it is only a matter of time.Since last year when it first said meat and milk from clones are as safe for human consumption as any other meat and milk, the European FSA says no new scientific information has become available that would require it to change its position about the safety of animal clones and their offspring...

Study: Consumers Are Inconsistent on Food Safety

Posted on September 21, 2010
A recent phone survey of 1,000 Americans not only found that some people are doing too little when it comes to food safety, but also that some are actually doing too much. NSF International, an independent public health and safety non-profit, says its survey reveals Americans are uncertain about some basic food handling and meal preparation practices...

Alamosa Salmonella Victims Share in Settlement

Posted on September 21, 2010
Spring winds still contained the bite of winter in the high San Luis Valley 2 years ago when people were getting sick and everybody had to line up to get clean water from National Guard troops. The public water in the 7,500-foot Colorado mountain valley town of 8,900 was contaminated and 1,300 would become infected with Salmonella...

Egg Recall Hearing Rescheduled for Wednesday

Posted on September 21, 2010
The congressional panel investigating the recent recall of 550 million eggs tied to a multistate Salmonella outbreak has again pushed back its food safety hearing. The hearing is now scheduled for tomorrow at noon EST. Jack DeCoster, owner of Wright County Egg, the company at the center of the outbreak, now linked to over 1,500 illnesses in almost two dozen states, will testify at the hearing...

Ban Unchanged As Japan, U.S. Talk Beef Safety

Posted on September 21, 2010
Officials from Japan and the United States met in San Francisco last week for two days of much-anticipated discussion about American beef safety, but the talks ended without any change to Japan's strict laws barring meat from American cows over 20 months of age...

UK Salmonella Outbreak Linked to Duck Eggs

Posted on September 21, 2010
Duck eggs are suspected for a spike in Salmonella Typhimurium DT8 cases in the United Kingdom that may be responsible for one death, the country's Food Standards Agency (FSA) says.FSA issued a warning to consumers about the importance of practicing good hygiene when cooking and consuming duck eggs after the UK's Health Protection Agency (HPA) announced it was investigating an outbreak of Salmonella Typhimurium DT8...

Oregon Seafood Processor Recalls Crabmeat

Posted on September 21, 2010
Crabmeat processed by Hallmark Fisheries on the southern Oregon coast in the harbor town of Charleston is being recalled for Listeria contamination.No illnesses are yet associated with the recall.The crabmeat is sold under the Hallmark, Peacock, Quality Ocean International and Yaquina Bay brands in five pound cans, one pound vacuum packs, one pound plastic tubs and eight ounce plastic tubs...

Meet My Butcher: Valuing the Meat You Eat

Posted on September 21, 2010
What a surprise this morning to power up my laptop, click on my shortcut-link to the MSNBC website, and there on the front page find a photograph of my butcher, Russell Flint, of Rain Shadow Meats. As soon as I saw the photograph, I exclaimed to myself: "Hey, that's my butcher!" And that got me thinking...

Canada First Country to List BPA as Toxic

Posted on September 21, 2010
Fulfilling a two-year promise, the Canadian government will designate bisphenol-A, or BPA, as a toxic substance, likely within the next 8 to 10 weeks. In 2008, Canada became the first country to complete a comprehensive human and environmental risk assessment of BPA, in consultation with industry and other stakeholders, and to announce it would take regulatory action to reduce the chemical's presence...

Bangladeshis Trained in Aquaculture Safety

Posted on September 20, 2010
Ten scientists from Bangladesh are being trained this month in aquaculture food safety by seafood experts from FDA and the University of Maryland Joint Institute for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition (JIFSAN).Aquaculture, the controlled production of seafood, is now the fastest-growing segment of agriculture worldwide and accounts for more than half of all fish produced...

School Lunch Film Premieres in DC Tomorrow

Posted on September 20, 2010
In Washington, D.C. tomorrow school lunch reform advocates are hosting a screening of Lunch Line, a documentary on the history of National School Lunch Program. Karen Duncan, wife of Secretary of Education Arne Duncan, and Christie Vilsack, wife of Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack, are scheduled to attend the debut for the film, which is a joint project of the Healthy School Campaign and Applegate Farms, created by Chicago-based Uji Films...

Ecuadorian Fish Exporter Could Be Banned from US

Posted on September 20, 2010
An Ecuadorian fish exporter with 20 years in the business could be banned from shipping to the United States, according to an Aug.11 warning letter sent to the company.The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) told Emprede SA, based in Guyaquil, Ecuador, that if it does not adequately respond to the warning letter the U...

S. 510: A Study in How Much You Trust Government

Posted on September 20, 2010
Editor's Note: We've asked Jill Richardson, author of "Recipe for America: Why Our Food System is Broken and What We Can Do to Fix It" for a behind-the-scenes analysis of the legislative battle over food safety legislation that remains alive in the current Congress...

Letter from The Editor: Executive Order 13544

Posted on September 19, 2010
There used to be nothing like a good conspiracy theory. As one who read and collected about 60 books on the Kennedy assassination before going cold turkey on the subject, I know.To advance a conspiracy theory in the old days, you had to have a book and be deemed credible; your book had better have a thick section of footnotes...

Publisher's Platform: S. 510 in a Nutshell

Posted on September 19, 2010
The Senate needs to pass the Linda Rivera Act. Linda Rivera (Senator Harry Reid's Nevada constituent) ate premade cookie dough that was contaminated with E. coli O157:H7. She has suffered liver and kidney failure, a stroke and the removal of her large intestine...

Blocking E. coli Before It Moves In

Posted on September 18, 2010
Scientists at the U.S. Department of Agriculture recently discovered key gene and chemical interactions that allow toxic Escherichia coli (commonly known as E. coli or O157:H7) bacteria to colonize in the guts of cattle. According to their research, the bovines not only host but can also shed the deadly human pathogen...

Senate Confirms Hagen: Now She'll Speak

Posted on September 17, 2010
In one of her first major public appearances after Senate confirmation Thursday, Dr. Elisabeth Hagen, under secretary for Food Safety, will be the opening speaker at public meetings later this month held by the National Advisory Committee on Meat and Poultry Inspection (NACMPI)...

Food Safety Advocate Named 2010 Game Changer

Posted on September 17, 2010
Arianna Huffington announced that she had chosen 100 people in a variety of fields to honor as the Huffington Post's 2010 Game Changers yesterday. Food safety advocate Barbara Kowalcyk, founder and director of food safety for the Center for Foodborne Illness Research and Prevention (CFI), was honored alongside 9 others in the Huffington Post Food category "for their willingness to look at things and take the risk of saying, 'I think I have a better way...

The 'Creepy' Science Behind GM Salmon

Posted on September 17, 2010
When the FDA announced just before Labor Day that it found the genetically engineered AquAdvantage salmon safe, news headlines and even Alaska Senator Mark Begich called it a "frankenfish." A closer look at AquAdvantage makes it seem unlikely that Mary Shelley could have ever dreamed up anything as wild as the fast-growing GE salmon...

Illegal Drug Residue Found In Ohio Bob Veal Calf

Posted on September 17, 2010
An Ohio dairy farm went way over the limit for using the antibiotics Sulfamethoxazole in conjunction with Trimethoprim in treating an ill animal, probably for a urinary tract infection.Raber View Holstein, based outside Millersburg, then sold the bob veal calf for slaughter as food for human consumption...

Summary Details Multidrug-resistant 'Superbugs'

Posted on September 17, 2010
Last week, the Institute of Medicine (IOM) of the National Academies released the workshop summary from its Forum on Microbial Threats. The summary, entitled "Antibiotic Resistance: Implications for Global Health and Novel Intervention Strategies" is now available online...

Too Much Bacteria in Too Many Cleaning Cloths

Posted on September 17, 2010
The United Kingdom's Health Protection Agency (HPA) has found unsatisfactory levels of bacteria--a sign of poor hygiene and a cross contamination threat---in restaurant cleaning cloths.Half the cleaning cloths used in restaurant and take-out kitchens were found to contain unhealthy levels of bacteria, researchers told HPA's annual conference at the University of Warwick...

Groups Stage Protest Against GM Salmon

Posted on September 17, 2010
Food & Water Watch, The Center for Food Safety, Friends of the Earth, and the CEO of Ben & Jerry's yesterday rallied in front of the White House to demand that the Obama administration halt Food and Drug Administration approval of genetically modified salmon...

Coburn to Reid: Don't Blame Me

Posted on September 17, 2010
Food safety legislation that had picked up steam in the wake of a massive egg recall has hit a major snag. On the Senate floor yesterday, Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) said Sen. Tom Coburn's objection to the bill's price tag meant the Senate was unlikely to take up the measure before the contentious midterm election season...

Acidified Food Maker Fails to Register with FDA

Posted on September 16, 2010
Hard-E Foods Inc. does not have scheduled processes established by an acidified foods expert for its Pickled Eggs, Garlic Mustard Pickled Eggs, Beet Pickled Eggs, Sweet Pickled Eggs, and Hot Pickled Eggs.The St. Louis-based manufacturer of acidified food products also failed to register with FDA as a commercial processor of acidified foods...

September is National Food Safety Month

Posted on September 16, 2010
This September marks the 15th annual observance of National Food Safety Month. Created by the food industry in 1995, the month is intended to renew focus on safety precautions within the food industry and within American homes. For the National Restaurant Foundation, this year's theme is "High-Risk Customers: Serve Your Fare with Extra Care...

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