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Food Safety News

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USDA Official in Kenya to Tour World Food Program

Posted on May 17, 2010
The United States Department of Agriculture's (USDA) Farm and Foreign Agriculture Service's Deputy Under Secretary, Darci Vetter and Former Senator George McGovern are traveling in Kenya May 10-16 to visit World Food Program sites and observe how the nutrition programs meet broader food security initiatives in Africa...

FSIS Issues Guidelines on Cattle Shedding

Posted on May 17, 2010
The U.S. Department of Agriculture's Food Safety and Inspection (FSIS) has developed a compliance guide on known practices for pre-harvest management to reduce E. coli O157:H7 contamination in cattle. The document was a priority for President Obama's Food Safety Working Group and is posted on the FSIS Website...

Stephanie Smith Gets Her Day in Court (Almost)

Posted on May 17, 2010
Stephanie Smith, the subject of a Pulitzer prize-winning story published by the New York Times after she became severely ill with an E. coli infection from a contaminated hamburger, has reached an undisclosed settlement with Cargill Inc.That might be good news but the size of the settlement will never be known...

Queso Fresco: Cheese with a Reputation

Posted on May 17, 2010
Are you looking for a tasty little cheese with an image problem?It's delicious in enchiladas, it complements black beans beautifully, and it's a wonderful addition to salads. Unfortunately for queso fresco--that quintessential Mexican fresh cheese--it also seems to have a knack for attracting pathogens such as Listeria...

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Report Takes Lessons from EU Food Safety Reforms

Posted on May 17, 2010
Study by The Produce Safety Project Finds U.S. Food Safety System Needs To Integrate Human Health, Animal, and Plant Pathogen DataThe Produce Safety Project, a joint initiative of Georgetown University and the Pew Charitable Trusts, issued a report last week that examines select European Union (EU) countries' efforts to improve their food safety data collection and analysis systems over the past two decades...

Salmonella in UT Linked to Raw Milk

Posted on May 16, 2010
Raw milk proponents took another hit last week. The Utah County Health Department has confirmed that six Salmonella poisonings in April were linked to raw milk sold by Real Foods stores in Orem and Heber City, Utah.Deseret News in Salt Lake City, Utah reported Friday that health officials found a strain of Salmonella called Newport in several Real Foods raw milk samples...

Letter From The Editor: Yuma

Posted on May 16, 2010
We wish foodborne illness investigations moved faster. But, as we've been told time and time again, "this isn't CSI."There is nothing we at Food Safety News can do about that. Last week, however, we did something we should be doing more of in the future...

Water Source of Campylobacter Outbreak in Utah

Posted on May 15, 2010
The City of Saratoga Springs, Utah, issued a boil water order for the northern half of the city this week after Campylobacter bacteria were discovered in the city's culinary water system. According to an advisory issued by the Utah County Health Department, residents, schools, commercial businesses, and all other users of the culinary water system north of 400 South in Saratoga Springs should boil their water for at least one minute or use bottled water until the water is considered safe...

Galant Recalls Products for Undeclared Egg

Posted on May 14, 2010
San Francisco's Galant Food Co., recalled approximately 250 pounds of chicken puff products and beef puff products on May 12 because they contain an undeclared allergen, egg, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS)...

Hong Kong Offer 5 Keys To Food Safety

Posted on May 14, 2010
Just nine of 4,400 food samples tested during March by Hong Kong's Center for Food Safety failed to pass.In its monthly "Food Safety Report," the Center for Food Safety reported on five food samples that did not pass its routine food surveillance program...

Canada Changes Reporting For Bluetongue

Posted on May 14, 2010
Canada's Reportable Diseases Regulations and the Health of Animals Regulations are being amended to change the status of five types of bluetongue, from "federally reportable" to "immediately notifiable."The Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) reported the changes on May 12...

Update in E. coli O145 Outbreak

Posted on May 14, 2010
Yesterday, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) issued an update on the E. coli O145 outbreak linked to Freshway Foods romaine lettuce. As of May 11, 2010, there are 23 confirmed and 7 probable cases related to this outbreak from Michigan, New York, Ohio, and Tennessee...

'Nature's Bar Code' Aides Traceability

Posted on May 14, 2010
Now America's lettuce is making us sick. Last week the U.S. Food and Drug Administration ordered a massive recall of romaine lettuce believed to be contaminated with a toxic strain of E. coli bacteria. Previous recalls have decimated the spinach and tomato industries, forcing hard working farmers to destroy tens of millions of dollars worth of crops...

Rachel Ray Gets Tough on School Lunch

Posted on May 14, 2010
Using her self-dubbed "big Sicilian mouth," celebrity chef Rachel Ray asked Congress Tuesday to cough up more money for school lunches."How could you go to any state in the union and say you are not for an extra couple of cents to eradicate hunger, to make our kids healthier, stronger, better focused? It doesn't make any sense that you would even have to have a long conversation about that, to me," Ray told lawmakers on Capitol Hill...

Food Allergens Focus of New Study

Posted on May 14, 2010
A study published this week in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) discusses confusion surrounding the diagnosis and maintenance of food allergies. The release of this study coincides with Food Allergy Awareness Week. Food Allergy Awareness Week is a national awareness campaign that was started by the Food Allergy and Anaphylaxis Network in 1998 and is aimed at educating the public about food allergies and anaphylaxis...

How Did E. coli O145 Contaminate Lettuce? Part III

Posted on May 14, 2010
A look at how E. coli O145 could have contaminated romaine lettuce on a farm in Yuma - Part III??As state and federal public health officials continue to investigate the E. coli O145 outbreak tied to bagged Freshway Foods romaine lettuce, which has sickened at least 23 people in 4 states, many questions remain...

FDA Finds Animal Drug Abuse in 4 States

Posted on May 13, 2010
Feed lots, dairies and feed mills sure like those antibiotic drugs for animals.The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) charged four animal agriculture practitioners in warning letters sent out April 21-30 with abusing mostly antibacterial drugs. Misuse of animal drugs may mean antibiotics are getting into the human food supply at levels higher than tolerated by FDA...

Catfish, Herring Processors Get FDA Warnings

Posted on May 13, 2010
Noxubee County in Mississippi's Black Prairie is pretty much the center of America's $400 million domestic catfish industry. Noxubee County Producers Inc. located in Macon, MS is a top catfish processor.In an April 29 warning letter to the catfish processing company, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) cited the Mississippi seafood business for "serious violations' of federal regulations, including the seafood Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Point (HACCP) and Current Good Manufacturing Practice (CGMP) regulations...

Cargill, E. coli Victim Settle Suit

Posted on May 13, 2010
From a Press Release: Stephanie Smith and Cargill Meat Solutions Corporation announce jointly that they have settled the lawsuit filed by Ms. Smith in December 2009. Ms. Smith, a twenty-two year old former dance instructor from Cold Spring, Minnesota, sued for the severe injuries she suffered as a result of an E...

China Launches School Food Safety Campaign

Posted on May 13, 2010
Public health officials in China announced yesterday their Ministry of Education and State Food and Drug Administration have jointly launched an eight-month campaign to promote food safety in school cafeterias.The campaign will run from May to December 2010 and will promote food services certification, sanitation, worker health, dish washing, food processing, and will also look into food additives, official Chinese media reported yesterday...

How Did E. coli O145 Contaminate Lettuce? Part II

Posted on May 13, 2010
A look at how E. coli O145 could have contaminated romaine lettuce on a farm in Yuma - Part IIAs state and federal public health officials continue to investigate the E. coli O145 outbreak tied to bagged Freshway Foods romaine lettuce, which has sickened 19 in 3 states, many questions remain...

FSIS Launches Food Safety Mobile

Posted on May 12, 2010
Last week the U.S. Department of Agriculture's (USDA's) Food Safety Inspection Service (FSIS) debuted its brand new, 40-foot-long Food Safety Discovery Zone, a food safety educational center on wheels that will travel across the country to teach kids about proper food handling...

AU/NZ Accepting Comments On COOL

Posted on May 12, 2010
Ministers responsible for food safety in Australia and New Zealand are accepting comments until Friday on part of draft Intergovernmental Agreements that will help consumers and the food industry better understand food regulation down under.Nationally consistent and useful information on food standards are major concerns for both the public and the food industry...

Farmers Clean Up in Maryland Assembly

Posted on May 12, 2010
Nutrient trading, a market-based approach for protecting and improving water quality, is going into effect in Maryland. The Maryland Department of Agriculture (MDA) will run the nutrient credit-trading program.Goal of the Nutrient Trading Program is to reduce nitrogen and phosphorus run-off into Chesapeake Bay and its tributaries...

E. coli Found in Gym Water

Posted on May 12, 2010
A Jackson-area fitness center has been linked to an E. coli outbreak. An investigation conducted by the Missouri Department of Health and Human Services has linked at least five confirmed cases of E. coli to Class Act Family Fitness. The strain of E...

Spring Cleaning Your Fridge

Posted on May 12, 2010
Spring has sprung, and along with the nice weather and chirping birds comes... SPRING CLEANING! Those two words likely conjure up images of dust bunnies and furniture polish; however, it's important to take time to spring clean the refrigerator, too...

Childhood Obesity Task Force Plan Released

Posted on May 12, 2010
First Lady Michelle Obama stood with members of the Childhood Obesity Task Force at the White House yesterday to announce the Task Force Action Plan: Solving the Problem of Childhood Obesity Within a Generation.The Action plan was called a "roadmap" for the Let's Move! campaign, established in February 2010 by Mrs...

E. coli Lawsuit Filed Against Lettuce Supplier

Posted on May 12, 2010
An E. coli lawsuit was filed yesterday against Freshway Foods, the company that recalled its romaine lettuce products after they were identified as the source of an E. coli O145 outbreak among students at The Ohio State University, the University of Michigan, and Daemon College in Buffalo, New York last month...

How Did E. coli O145 Contaminate Lettuce?

Posted on May 12, 2010
A look at how E. coli O145 could have contaminated romaine lettuce on a farm in YumaAs state and federal public health officials continue to investigate the E. coli O145 outbreak tied to bagged Freshway Foods romaine lettuce, which has sickened 19 in 3 states, many questions remain...

Photos from the Gulf of Mexico

Posted on May 11, 2010
A collection of photos from out FSN reporting in the Gulf of Mexico as the oil spill unfolded last week. The road to Venice, Louisiana (southernmost tip of the state, closest to the oil spill)The marshland surrounding Venice, a sensitive ecosystem threatened by the oil spillA collection of Yellowfin Tuna, caught on the west side of the Mississippi (not affected by the spill), brought into Venice, LouisianaVenice - Gateway to the GulfThe Four Winds, Ray Brandhurst's shrimp boat in Chalmette, Louisiana

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