Food Safety News: Health Law

Home -> Law Blog Directory -> Health Law Blogs

OR PHONE (866) 635-1838 for Bankruptcy Help, (866) 635-6190 for Divorce,
(866) 635-2689 for Personal Injury or (866) 635-9402 for Criminal Defense

Find a Local Lawyer

Bankruptcy (866) 635-1838
Divorce (866) 635-6190
Personal Injury (866) 635-2689
Criminal Defense (866) 635-9402

Health Law

Food Safety News

Daily online newspaper dedicated to reporting on issues surrounding food safety.
By Dan Flynn and Suzanna Schreck

Post Frequency: 31.2/day

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

Learning the Law from "Farm to Fork"

Posted on September 16, 2010
In 1933, Edward A. O'Neal, head of the Farm Bureau Federation, warned a Senate committee that, "Unless something is done for the American farmer we will have a revolution in the countryside within less than 12 months."As farm prices fell by more than 50 percent, farm foreclosures reached record numbers, and violence erupted throughout the farm belt, President Franklin D...

Michigan Juice Maker Fails to Pasteurize

Posted on September 16, 2010
A 19-year-old Michigan juice company with day care centers carved out as a market niche is failing to pasteurize its products, according to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA).In a Sept. 8 warning letter to Penguin Juice Company Inc., FDA told the company its "concentrated 'juice' products are adulterated in that they have been prepared, packed or held under insanitary conditions whereby they may have been rendered injurious to health...

Sen. Coburn Threatens to Hold Food Safety Bill

Posted on September 16, 2010
Sen. Tom Coburn (R-OK) says he will hold up the pending food safety bill unless Democrats find a way to pay for the measure. With time running out in the Senate, advocates had hoped that the recent egg recall would provide the impetus to finally move the legislation, which has been stalled for more than a year, to the floor...

Organic Farmers Claim Soybean Victory

Posted on September 15, 2010
In a real-life example of the mythical story of David vs. Goliath, organic soybean producers and The Cornucopia Institute are claiming victory over Dean Foods, the maker of Silk soymilk drink.The Cornucopia Institute, a public interest group that promotes family scale farming, first reported in May 2009 that Dean Foods had switched its soybean sources from American farms to cheaper organic beans from China...

To access this complete feed in the blog feed reader login or register for free.

JBS Unit Again Recalls Banned Beef from Brazil

Posted on September 15, 2010
With JBS, SA, the largest beef company on the planet based in Brazil, and Sampco Inc., its export/import operation based in Chicago, one might think the biggest pros in the business could keep meat from one banned Brazilian processing plant from getting into the United States...

Researchers Find PCBs, Other Chemicals in Food

Posted on September 15, 2010
Scientists with the University of Texas School of Public Health have released a study on persistent organic pollutant (POP) levels in the U.S. food supply. The study, published in Environmental Health Perspectives in June, showed that the chemicals are found in the many types of food even though their use has been banned...

Leahy Introduces Food Safety Accountability Bill

Posted on September 15, 2010
Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-VT) introduced a bill Monday aimed at holding violators of food safety standards "accountable for their crimes."The legislation, dubbed the Food Safety Accountability Act, follows a measure Leahy introduced before August recess that would strengthen criminal penalties for food safety violators...

FDA Asked To Permit "Corn Sugar" On Label

Posted on September 15, 2010
Sugar is sugar, so the Corn Refiners Association would just like to call theirs "corn sugar" instead of "high fructose corn syrup." The association has formally asked the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to allow it to use the term "corn sugar" as an alternative to high fructose corn syrup, or HFCS...

Was Egg Farm Aware of Salmonella Before Outbreak?

Posted on September 15, 2010
According to congressional investigators, Wright County Egg, the Iowa company at the center of a half billion egg recall tied to more than 1,500 cases of Salmonella, had received hundreds of positive tests for the bacteria since 2008. Documents released yesterday reveal that between 2008 and 2010 the company had received 426 positive test results for Salmonella contamination at its egg facilities, 73 of which were "potentially positive" for Salmonella enteritidis, the strain of the bacteria linked to the multistage outbreak...

Former "Chip Shop" Owner Faces Charges

Posted on September 14, 2010
Ramazan Asian, former owner of the Llay Fish Bar in northern Wales, must appear before the town magistrate's court on Sept. 23, the Wrexham Council has ordered.The Llay Fish Bar, which sold fish and chips for take-out, was associated with a July 2009 outbreak of E...

Iowa Ag Candidate Blames Opponent for Bad Eggs

Posted on September 14, 2010
Iowans are so concerned about their state Secretary of Agriculture that the office is directly elected, and now the half billion recall of Iowa eggs may scramble that election.Democratic challenger Francis Thicke (pronounced TICK-ee) has accused incumbent Republican Bill Northey of failing to police the giant egg farms responsible for a national outbreak of Salmonella, and thereby damaging Iowa's reputation...

Egg Recall Hearing Rescheduled, DeCoster to Testify

Posted on September 14, 2010
The Congressional panel investigating the recent recall of 550 million eggs tied to a multistate Salmonella outbreak has moved its food safety hearing, originally planned for today, to next week. 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...

Survey: Political Pressures Hurt Food Safety

Posted on September 14, 2010
One in four scientists and inspectors at the U.S. Department of Agriculture and Food and Drug Administration surveyed by the Union of Concerned Scientists say they have personally experienced "instances where public health has been harmed by business withholding food safety information from agency investigators...

China Working to Improve Food Safety Systems

Posted on September 14, 2010
Official Chinese media recently reported that the country will pour money into its food monitoring and risk assessment system technologies. This influx of money is meant to improve food safety in accordance with a food safety law that was passed in 2009 in response to the melamine milk scandal...

Chicken Processor Cited for Workplace Violations

Posted on September 13, 2010
Pilgrim's Pride Corp. in Russellville, AL was cited Tuesday for 29 safety and health violations. The U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) fined the chicken-processing plant $135,500. An investigation began in March after workers complained of ammonia odors, cuts and stabbing injuries...

Three Quick Tips for Cooling Soups and Stews

Posted on September 13, 2010
Whether at home or at the restaurant, making large batches of food can present a special food safety challenge. The food danger zone--that place between 41 and 140 degrees where pathogens grow most quickly--can take a long time to get through when you have a large batch of chili, soups, gravies, sauces, or other liquid food product...

Investigation Into Ontario Outbreak Continues

Posted on September 13, 2010
Last month, the Porcupine Health Unit announced that it was investigating several reports of Salmonella in the Cochrane district of Ontario. According to recent reports, the investigation into what caused at least 7 people to become ill with salmonellosis is ongoing...

Comments Sought on Antimicrobial Resistance

Posted on September 13, 2010
U.S. public health officials are hosting a meeting next week to solicit public comments on the draft U.S. positions for the fourth session of the Ad Hoc Codex Intergovernmental Task Force on Antimicrobial Resistance, which will meet in Korea in October...

Opponents of GM Sugar Go Back To Court

Posted on September 13, 2010
When things get confusing, lawyers do what lawyers do--go back to court for directions more to their liking.And that's exactly what has happened when it comes to genetically modified sugar beets.The original opponents to Monsanto's Roundup Ready GM sugar beets--the Center for Food Safety, Organic Seed Alliance, High Mowing Organic Seeds, and the Sierra Club-- went back to the Northern District of California in San Francisco last week, objecting to what they saw as permission for immediate planting of GM sugar beets by USDA's Animal and Plant Inspection Service (APHIS)...

GE Salmon: Poll Reveals Consumer Skepticism

Posted on September 13, 2010
Despite the U.S. Food and Drug Administration's recent announcement that bioengineered salmon is safe, many are still wary of the idea. The Center for Food Safety criticized the FDA's analysis as misguided and dangerous. Federal tests were "insufficient in determining the long-term, unforeseen consequences" of genetic engineering, said Wenonah Hauter, director of Food & Water Watch...

Comerford, Hamburg Head to Gulf to Talk Seafood

Posted on September 13, 2010
As the headlines about Gulf seafood safety have become increasingly skeptical, the White House and U.S. Food and Drug Administration are upping their effort to boost the image of the region's seafood in the wake of a devastating oil spill. Executive White House Chef Christina Comerford and FDA Commissioner Margaret Hamburg will join a group of chefs in New Orleans today for a Gulf seafood cooking fest "with a special focus on safety," according to Obamafoodorama, a blog focused on the administration's food policy initiatives...

Letter from the Editor: Celebrate!

Posted on September 12, 2010
We are going to have a birthday.Food Safety News began on Sept. 14, 2009.That's our birthday.So this Tuesday, we will be one year old.We've talked among ourselves and decided not to celebrate.Not yet, anyway.As it turns out, Tuesday is going to be a big day in food safety even without our celebrating...

Publisher's Platform

Posted on September 12, 2010
"Good Day" from a day ahead of any point in the United States from the Tongariro Lodge on the North Island of New Zealand. As I write this, I am sitting under a stuffed 8� pound rainbow trout caught in 1984 by then ex-President Jimmy Carter on the same river my daughter and I fished the last two days - that was after we bungy jumped off a bridge that, well, was far too high above another river...

Organic Strawberries: Tastier, Last Longer

Posted on September 11, 2010
Washington State University researchers say they've found that organically grown strawberries are more nutritious, flavorful and have a longer shelf life than conventionally grown strawberries. They also leave soil healthier.John Reganold, WSU professor of soil science, authored the strawberry study, which was published by the Public Library of Science in its online journal, PLoS ONE...

Canada Reworks Food Import Regulations

Posted on September 10, 2010
Canada is looking at new regulations for certain imported food products.As part of the process, the Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) is seeking input from stakeholders and the Canadian public on the proposed principles that will guide the development of new imported food regulations...

Canada: Cowboy Burgers Recalled for E. coli

Posted on September 10, 2010
The Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) announced this week that Leadbetters Foods Inc. is recalling its Leadbetters Cowboy Beef Burgers for potential contamination with E. coli O157:H7. According to a press release, CFIA is investigating an E...

Issa Calls for Hearing on Food Safety Bureacracy

Posted on September 10, 2010
Rep. Darrell Issa (R-CA), ranking member of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, yesterday asked committee chairman Ed Towns (D-NY) to hold a hearing "on the coordination--or lack thereof--between the numerous departments and agencies responsible for food safety...

Pasteurization Failure Brings NY State Milk Recall

Posted on September 10, 2010
Improper pasteurization has forced Midland Farms in New York State to recall its milk products.In a Sept. 8 alert, New York State Agriculture Commissioner Patrick Hooker warned consumers about the problem.Proper pasteurization heats milk in order to effectively eliminate all pathogenic bacteria, such as Listeria and Salmonella...

Busted: NYC Restaurant Posts Fake Letter Grade

Posted on September 10, 2010
Ming's Chinese take-out on 9th Ave. at 33rd St. in New York City was caught posting a fake "Sanitary Inspection Grade" over Labor Day Weekend. A local publication spotted a suspect "inspection grade" card in the restaurant and easily proved it to be false by searching for the restaurant in the New York City Department of Health's Restaurant Inspection Information Website...

Asian Carp Knocking On Great Lakes Doors

Posted on September 10, 2010
Food safety is usually about the bacteria or viruses that might get into your system from something you ate or drank.But if you want to take the boat out and put some Asian carp on the dinner table, the best food safety protection can be a helmet and a baseball bat...

Previous | Next

Related Law Bulletins

2007 Dallas Morning News Texan of the Year: The Illegal Immigrant
The Dallas Morning News came up with a surprise today -- the newsp...

BREAKING NEWS - NJ Supreme Court's Decision in Mt. Laurel v. MiPro
Today, the New Jersey Supreme Court issued a decision in Mount Lau...

Consumer Product Safety Commission Reports Increase In Nursery Products-Related Infant Deaths
The Consumer Product Safety Commission has issued a report that st...

Medical Malpractice News Roundup
From the Kaiser Daily Health Policy Report, a summary of recent de...

Autism Case has CDC Scrambling to Reassure Vaccine Safety
Washington, DC: Since Edward Jenner's Cowpox in the 1800's that wa...