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Eggs Source of Nationwide Salmonella Outbreak

Posted on August 17, 2010
The Minnesota Department of Health (MDH) said Monday that seven Salmonella Enteritidis cases it has been investigating were linked to a multistate egg recall announced over the weekend, and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has counted hundreds more since May that are likely also linked to the consumption of contaminated recalled eggs...

Listeria Scare Brings Recall in Louisiana

Posted on August 16, 2010
A half million pounds of "ready to eat" sausages and hog headcheeses are being recalled in Louisiana for possible contamination with Listeria monocytogenes.The Louisiana Department of Agriculture and Forestry's Office of Animal Health and Food Safety said Veron Foods, LLC, based in Prairieville, LA, produced the 500,000 pounds sausage and cheese that is being recalled...

Ontario Salmonella Outbreak Linked to Green Onions

Posted on August 16, 2010
An Ontario outbreak of Salmonella Oranienberg, a rare form of Salmonella that causes acute intestinal infections in humans, may be linked to raw onions.Dr. Arlene King, Ontario's chief medical officer, warned Canadians about the outbreak on Saturday. The Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) then associated the outbreak with green onions...

Antibiotics, HUS, and Gastroenteritis

Posted on August 16, 2010
The issue of whether antibiotics used to treat Shiga toxin-producing E. coli increase the risk of the hemolytic uremic syndrome (HUS) has been a vexing one. But beyond E. coli, antibiotic use in general for treatment of infectious gastroenteritis poses conflicting risks and benefits...

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Eggs May be Linked to Salmonella Outbreak

Posted on August 16, 2010
On-farm egg testing and a records review for Salmonella by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has led to a multistate egg recall by Wright County Egg based in Galt, IA.The recall may be associated with a Salmonella outbreak that is the subject of an ongoing trace back investigation by FDA...

Georgia Focuses On Peanut Safety

Posted on August 16, 2010
Though a year has passed since the massive peanut butter Salmonella outbreak of 2008 and 2009, victims and their families are not the only ones with peanut product danger still on their minds. The state of Georgia, home to the plant that sickened over 700 people and killed nine, still has peanut safety near the forefront of its agenda...

President Obama Continues Gulf Seafood Push

Posted on August 16, 2010
During a weekend trip to Panama City, Florida, President Obama continued his campaign for Gulf Coast seafood, but not everyone is buying it. Following a week of high profile White House publicity for the Gulf Coast seafood industry, the First Family dined on regional seafood at Lime's Bayside Bar & Grill on Saturday, enjoying Mahi Mahi fish tacos, according to Obama Foodorama...

Tracing Your Food From Farm to Fork

Posted on August 16, 2010
Do You Know Where Your Food Comes From?For years, the term "food traceability" has permeated the media, and there has been a greater emphasis on consumers' right to know where their food comes from. With the high profile of foodborne illness outbreaks that caused the infamous case of Stephanie Smith, a 22-year-old girl who was left paralyzed after eating an E...

Letter from the Editor: No Magic

Posted on August 15, 2010
The President, with his traveling family in tow, will be enjoying this weekend on the Gulf of Mexico in the sunshine state of Florida. One of the First Family's missions in Panama City will be to consume Gulf seafood and pronounce it safe.So much of this safe talking has been on the agenda that the always-creative Obama Foodorama suggested this week that the White House had become "a branch of the Gulf Coast Seafood Marketing Board...

Publisher's Platform

Posted on August 15, 2010
S. 510 - FDA Food Safety Modernization Act - The Small Farms and Businesses Assistance ActIn early 2007, just after the first large-scale peanut butter Salmonella outbreak, I was meeting with Senator Durbin's staff on legislative language that eventually formed the basis of S...

Typhoid Fever Outbreak Linked to Mamey Pulp

Posted on August 14, 2010
Uncommon as typhoid fever is in the United States, a rare outbreak is underway in California and Nevada, and it may spread to other western states where a frozen fruit product was sold.Typhoid fever is a life-threatening illness caused by the bacterium Salmonella Typhi...

Mamey Pulp Recalled for Samonella Contamination

Posted on August 13, 2010
Goya Foods, Inc. said Thursday it was recalling its 14-ounce packages of frozen Mamey Pulp for possible Salmonella contamination. The Secaucus, NJ-based company said no illnesses have been associated with the recall of its Goya brand Mamey Pulp.The recalled Mamey Pulp was distributed in the 11 states of AK, AZ, CA, CO, HI, NM, NV, OR, TX, UT, and WA through retail stores...

FDA Works with Mill on Medicated Feed

Posted on August 13, 2010
A complaint by a local dairy farmer sent the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to the Goshen, CA-based Western Milling Company for a comprehensive inspection last March 18-31.Western Milling, a unit of O.H. Kruse Grain & Milling Company, is a non FDA-licensed feed manufacturing facility...

Seattle Fish Importer Violates Seafood Regulations

Posted on August 13, 2010
Sunic's Food Inc, doing business as Sun Food Trading Company in Seattle, received an Aug. 4 warning letter from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) about "serious violations" of federal laws and regulations for imported fish.FDA said, "there must be evidence that all fish and fishery products offered for entry into the United States have been processed under conditions that comply with 21 CFR Part 123...

CDC Releases 2007 Foodborne Illness Numbers

Posted on August 13, 2010
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released new statistics on foodborne illness outbreaks today in its Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report. The most recent numbers, which were obtained from epidemiologic investigations conducted in 2007, show that for outbreaks in which a specific pathogen causing illness was identified, norovirus was the most commonly reported cause of foodborne illness, followed by Salmonella...

Senators Call Out Russia on Poultry Imports

Posted on August 13, 2010
Senators sent a letter to the Russian Ambassador Wednesday lambasting Russia over what they call a "lack of cooperation" on resolving an ongoing trade dispute over poultry imports. Senator Blanche Lincoln (D-AR) Chairwoman of the Senate Agriculture Committee and Ranking Member Saxby Chambliss (R-GA) pressed the Russian government to get moving on their public commitment to reopen markets to U...

Raw Milk Alternatives, Part II

Posted on August 13, 2010
Editor's Note: This is the second in a 2-part series on small-scale pasteurization. In Part I, Food Safety News interviewed Washington state dairy owners Vic and Judy Jensen, who use low-temperature vat pasteurization to treat milk they sell to retail stores and direct to consumers, and Steven Judge, a former Vermont dairy farmer, who designed and built an on-farm pasteurizer for small herds...

Senate Strikes Bipartisan Agreement on Food Safety

Posted on August 13, 2010
The pending Senate food safety bill inched forward yesterday as key lawmakers released a bipartisan, compromise agreement, a step which should make it easier to bring the bill to the floor for a vote after recess.Notably absent from the 225-page managers package are two hot button amendments: a bisphenol-A (BPA) ban championed by Sen...

Insects, Rodent Excreta Found in Seafood Bags

Posted on August 12, 2010
More than a month before the explosion on the Deepwater Horizon, Johnson Sea Products Inc. on the Gulf Coast in Coden, AL was having a bad day or two processing its stuffed seafood products.When an investigator from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration spent time at Johnson over a ten day period in late March, examining a lot of 30 and 35 pound bags of product he found:-dead insects in 14 bags-live insects in 2 bags...

NYC Restaurant Rating System - FAIL?

Posted on August 12, 2010
Despite an inspector finding "a small number of mice droppings" on the floor, a cafe in an Upper West Side New York City Barnes & Noble bookstore was awarded an "A" grade under the city's new restaurant rating system."While this presents evidence of a problem, there was no evidence that the problem was widespread or had contaminated food," Celina De Leon, a spokeswoman from the NYC Health Department said via email...

President Looking Forward to Gulf Trip, Seafood

Posted on August 12, 2010
Continuing the PR push for struggling Gulf Coast seafood, White House Deputy Press Secretary Bill Burton said yesterday the President was looking forward to eating seafood during his upcoming vacation to the region."It's a beautiful part of the country, and the president looks forward to getting down there...

Why Public Health Matters

Posted on August 12, 2010
I received a couple of requests to define "public health" last week from readers [of Food Politics] Anthro and MA. As MA puts it,"Maybe...we need a definition of "public health." I view my health as a private matter, my food choices as a private matter, and an expression of my freedom...

NOAA Opens Waters Off Florida to Fin Fishing

Posted on August 12, 2010
Opening of some federal waters off the politically touchy coast of the Florida panhandle to fin fishing earlier this week underscores just how much control the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Association's Marine Fisheries Services continues to exercise over the oil-soaked Gulf seafood industry...

Is Pet Food Safe?

Posted on August 12, 2010
Since the widespread pet food recalls of 2007 that resulted in the deaths of over 8,500 American cats and dogs, it appears that pet food recalls are occurring with increasing frequency. This year alone the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has issued a staggering 18 pet food recalls and safety alerts...

Raw Milk Alternatives

Posted on August 12, 2010
Western Washington dairy farmers Vic and Judy Jensen were just days away from becoming raw milk producers. Their herd had been inspected, and the state had licensed the dairy to start selling raw milk.But then, something stopped them in their tracks: An E...

Salmonella 'Niche' Found at Pecan Re-Packer

Posted on August 11, 2010
Pecan pieces, recalled last February by the American Pecan Company of Yancey, TX, were not only contaminated with Salmonella oranienburg, but were also misbranded.The one-pound bags of Pecan Pieces in small, medium, and large sizes did not contain "a statement of identity" on the label and several lacked a Nutrition Facts" panel as well...

Washington State Ice Cream Maker Has Problems

Posted on August 11, 2010
An ice cream manufacturing facility located in Washington state was found last spring with pests, poor screening, bad plumbing, cracked walls, and equipment and utensils that were not properly stored. The problems were discovered during an inspection last April 20, 21, and 27 by the U...

Study: Climate Change Threatens Rice Production

Posted on August 11, 2010
According to a new collaborative study released this week by a group of international scientists, the production of rice will be hindered as temperatures increase in rice-growing areas from global warming.According to the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, the research team found evidence that the net impact of projected temperature increases will be to slow the growth of rice production in Asia...

Fresh Express Recalls Salads for Listeria

Posted on August 11, 2010
Fresh Express is recalled 2,825 cases of Veggie Lovers Salad yesterday after a random sample of the product was found to be contaminated with Listeria monocytogenes in a test conducted by the Ohio Department of Agriculture. In a press release, the company stated that anyone who has purchased the Fresh Express Veggie Lovers Salad with a Product Code of I208 and Use-by Date of August 10, 2010 should discard the product due to the risk of foodborne illness...

Millions Spent Lobbying Food Safety

Posted on August 11, 2010
The Senate recently updated its lobbying disclosure database with second quarter spending information. The documents available through the database reveal which organizations are spending what--and where their money is focused. The Senate Website is set up so that you can easily search for companies lobbying on behalf of a particular subject like food safety...

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