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Food Safety News

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By Dan Flynn and Suzanna Schreck

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Food Safety News at IAFP in Anaheim

Posted on August 01, 2010
The 99-year old International Association of Food Protection starts its four-day annual meeting today at the Anaheim Convention Center.Food Safety News is an exhibitor at the meeting, and attendees are encouraged to stop by and visit us. While you are there you can also check out both the Food Illness Outbreak Database (www...

Letter From The Editor: Stadium Food

Posted on August 01, 2010
Much hang-wringing goes on today around the theme that the media is headed on a downward spiral so severe that only government intervention can save it.Spare me.No doubt the media has to respond to technology and market changes. The 1st Amendment gives us the right to write and publish without government interference or involvement, period...

USDA Orders Chicken Plant Closed

Posted on July 31, 2010
This week, federal regulators ordered Murray's Chicken to cease processing at its South Fallsburg, NY poultry plant. Steve Gold, Murray's vice president of sales and marketing, said the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Food Safety and Inspection Service allowed the company to ship chicken packaged Monday but ordered it otherwise closed until it corrects "facility issues...

NYC: First 'A' Awarded for Food Safety

Posted on July 31, 2010
On Wednesday New York City rolled out its new system of awarding letter grades to restaurants. Health Commissioner Thomas Farley presented an A to Spark's Deli in Long Island City. "We're happy to get the A," said Jose Araujo, co-owner of the 24-seat restaurant located at 2831 Borden Avenue, "but now we have to pay $800 for nonfood-related violations," he said...

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Dairy Farms Misuse Antibiotics

Posted on July 30, 2010
E. coli bacteria have already shown some resistance to gentamicin, a heat-stable antibiotic. And sulfamethazine, a sulfonamide antibacterial, is one of the most common animal drugs used on dairy farms.The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has not established any tolerance level for gentamicin in the edible tissues of veal calves...

USDA Requests Nominations for Microbiological Committee

Posted on July 30, 2010
On Wednesday the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Food Safety and Inspection Service announced that the agency is now accepting nominations for new members for the National Advisory Committee on Microbiological Criteria for Foods. FSIS is seeking nominations for two-year terms from individuals with a variety of different backgrounds, but specified interest for those with scientific expertise in the fields of biostatistics, risk assessment, chemistry, toxicology, microbiology, food technology, epidemiology, infectious disease and other related fields...

Cottonseed Hauler Blames Driver For Dirty Trailer

Posted on July 30, 2010
Located off Interstate 77 in Hamptonville, NC, the 33-year-old CMC Commodity Transport Inc. trucks products in both food-grade tankers and "walking floor" trailers.During an inspection last Feb. 8 & 9, inspectors from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration found that one of CMC's trailers (#78-6073) was used to haul a load of shredded tire chips on the same day it picked up a load of cottonseed...

Wales Food Safety Project Launched

Posted on July 30, 2010
Scientists at Aberystwyth University's Institute of Biological, Environmental, and Rural Sciences launched a �460,000 Improved Food Safety research project at the Royal Welsh Show on July 19. The project's aim is to reduce the incidence of meat contamination in slaughterhouses, or abattoirs...

Abu Dhabi Food Safety Agency Issues Warning

Posted on July 30, 2010
The United Arab Emirates' food safety watchdog said recently that outdated attitudes regarding food safety are to blame for food workers' failing hygiene tests. All employees in the industry who handle food must be trained in hygiene by the end of 2012, according to a strategic plan released by Abu Dhabi Food Control Authority...

Catfish Importer Sent to Prison

Posted on July 30, 2010
When the domestic catfish industry talks about its competition from the "Mekong Delta" being unfair and maybe illegal, it sometimes sounds a little paranoid, Now, however, U.S. catfish producers have a story to tell that pretty well proves at least some of those imports are not only unfair, but illegal...

Reid Promises E. coli Survivor Action on S. 510

Posted on July 30, 2010
Linda Rivera, a Reno, Nevada woman who contracted E. coli from cookie dough and has been battling for her life for the past fifteen months, has been promised the Senate will move on the pending food safety bill, S. 510--the FDA Food Safety Modernization Act...

DeLauro Introduces Meat Testing, Traceability Bill

Posted on July 30, 2010
Congresswoman Rosa DeLauro (D-CT), a longtime advocate for more stringent food safety laws, introduced a bill yesterday with the "goal of completely eradicating the dangerous Shiga toxin-producing E. coli bacteria."The E. coli Traceability and Eradication Act would set stricter testing procedures for meat companies and establish a tracking procedure to allow the U...

Sen. Lincoln Leads Charge on Child Nutrition Bill

Posted on July 30, 2010
Standing alongside key lawmakers, child nutrition advocates, and elementary students dressed as grapes, apples, carrots, and bananas, Senate Agriculture Committee Chairwoman Blanche Lincoln (D-AR) yesterday urged the Senate to pass the pending child nutrition reauthorization bill...

BCS African Receives FDA Warning Letter

Posted on July 29, 2010
Fish processing and general sanitation problems plague BCS African Wholesale Food Supply in Brooklyn Park, MN, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration said in a July 20 warning letter.BCS advertises itself as a direct importer/wholesaler of African foods...

Fungus Infects Basil Crops from Coast to Coast

Posted on July 29, 2010
A fungus called Basil downy mildew is rapidly spreading throughout basil crops all over the country. Though the fungus is not known to negatively effect human health, it does turn basil an unnatural yellow color with a occasional brownish-black mold appearing later on...

POM Wonderful Gets Judge To Seal Records

Posted on July 29, 2010
In the 1971 Pentagon Papers case, the Supreme Court ruled 6-3 against "prior restraint" of the media by government except in very extraordinary circumstances.The threshold to impose prior restraint was viewed as high enough the Obama Administration did not try to prevent the publishing of those 92,000 pages of classified battlefield reports from Afghanistan...

On Restaurant Grades: Giving an F to Josh Ozersky

Posted on July 29, 2010
In coming up with topics for my opinion-pieces here at Food Safety News, I have been trying not to be so critical--which is to say, trying not to build a topic around me criticizing someone for their opinions or proposals. For as I observed in my last piece, The Perils of Punditry, there is not much good to be accomplished by "off-the-cuff opinion-making and online sophistry...

Reid Wants to Pass Food Bills Before Recess

Posted on July 29, 2010
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) said Tuesday he hopes to pass pending food safety legislation and the child nutrition reauthorization, two major food bills, before August recess. Majority Whip Dick Durbin (D-IL), the primary sponsor of the FDA Food Safety Modernization Act, which was unanimously voted out of committee in November, told POLITICO's Pulse yesterday he feels better about the bill's prospects "than I have in a long time...

FDA Issues Reportable Food Registry Update

Posted on July 29, 2010
FDA Says New System Helped Identify Over 100 Food Safety Problems in First 7 Months The U.S. Food and Drug Administration released a report yesterday on the agency's new Reportable Food Registry. According to FDA, over 100 food safety reports were electronically submitted by industry in the first seven months...

Iams Cat Food Recalled by Procter & Gamble

Posted on July 28, 2010
Another pet food recall is in the works because of possible Salmonella contamination.This time it is the Procter & Gamble Company that is recalling cat food. The company's Iams brand is involved. Recalled are:-Iams Veterinary Formulas Feline Renal 5...

Record Red Meat Production for June

Posted on July 28, 2010
Commercial red meat production for the United States totaled 4.18 billion pounds in June 2010, up slightly from the 4.16 billion pounds produced in June 2009. Meatingplace reported that beef production, at 2.32 billion pounds, was 1 percent above production for the previous year...

PA Dairy Farm Enters Into Consent Decree With FDA

Posted on July 28, 2010
A Pennsylvania diary farm has agreed to keep illegal drug residues out of animals sold for human consumption.The H.B . Williams Inc. dairy farm, located near Kingsley, PA, has agreed to abide by federal regulations that protect meat from illegal drug residues caused by the unapproved use of animal drugs in cattle before slaughter...

Study: More Meat Leads to Weight Gain

Posted on July 28, 2010
According to a European study, people who eat more meat are likely to gain weight over time even if they eat the same number of calories as their peers. The research showed that people gain 4.4 more pounds over a five-year period for every extra 250 grams of meat (roughly equivalent to a 450 calorie steak) they ate daily...

Brazil Meatpackers Battle Deforestation

Posted on July 28, 2010
Brazil's three largest meatpackers, JBS Friboi, Marfrig Alimentos and Minerva, have suspended cattle purchases from 221 ranches located on indigenous land, conservation areas, or near recently-deforested areas in the Amazon, according to reports submitted to Greenpeace...

UK Re-Tools Plans for Reducing Campylobacter

Posted on July 28, 2010
With 65 percent of the raw shop-bought chicken in the United Kingdom contaminated with Campylobacter, a potentially deadly pathogen, the UK's Food Standards Agency has mapped out a plan to reduce the threat.The strategy the agency will pursue will include:-Implementing stricter biosecurity measures across the whole supply chain, such as ensuring hygiene barriers are standard on the farm and include new fly-control systems...

Congress Begins Work on Chemical Safety Overhaul

Posted on July 28, 2010
The House of Representatives is starting to move legislation that would fundamentally overhaul chemical laws for the first time in over three decades.The Toxic Chemicals Safety Act, H.R. 5820, introduced last week by Reps. Bobby L. Rush (D-IL) and Henry Waxman (D-CA), seeks to reform the federal Toxic Substances Control Act, enacted under President Ford in 1976...

Japan and U.S. to Reopen Talks on Beef Exports

Posted on July 28, 2010
There is good news for the American beef export industry. Japan announced Friday that the country has decided to resume talks this September about potentially re-opening the Japanese market for U.S. beef exports. These talks have been stalled since the summer of 2007...

Sprouts Recalled For Listeria Contamination

Posted on July 27, 2010
Two Specialty Farms brands of alfalfa sprouts--Organic Sprouts Blend and Organic Sprout Salad--were recalled Monday.Both have a sell-by date of 7/26/2010 and are sold in 4-ounce plastic containers. Recalled are:-Specialty Farms Organic Alfalfa Sprout Blend, UPC 8192400108-Specialty Farms Organic Sprout Salad, UPC 8192400024Specialty Farms, LLC, based in Connecticut, recalled the sprouts after laboratory analysis found positive results from one retail sample...

Corn and Poblano Peppers Recalled for Listeria

Posted on July 27, 2010
Pasco Processing LLC has recalled Corn and Poblano peppers intended for Chipotle Mexican Grill Restaurant locations in California, Nevada, and Arizona. The company, based in Pasco, WA, recalled 2,087 cases of 20 pound bulk packaged Corn and Poblano peppers, (SKU 10071179017738) for possible Listeria contamination...

Ice Cream with Peanuts is Allergy Threat

Posted on July 27, 2010
Oregon Ice Cream Company LLC of Eugene, OR is voluntarily recalling 641 tubs of 3 gallon Denali Bear Claw ice cream, because it may contain undeclared peanuts. People who have an allergy or severe sensitivity to peanuts run the risk of serious or life-threatening allergic reaction if they consume these products...

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