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Food Safety News

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

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

Unclear Whether New FDA Post Will Have Impact

Posted on January 20, 2010
Many food safety experts and consumer advocates were quick to praise food safety veteran Michael Taylor's appointment to deputy commissioner of foods at the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) last week, but it is unclear whether the move will have a significant impact on the embattled agency's effort to regulate 80 percent of the food supply...

Area 29 Closed For Oyster Harvest

Posted on January 19, 2010
Driving on Interstate 10 east of Houston across the state line into Louisiana, you come across Lake Charles fairly quickly. Go south from there and you will begin skirting Calcasieu Lake.Along the banks of lower Calcasieu Lake as you get closer to the Gulf of Mexico is Area 29, which is not even on the regular map of the state oyster growing areas...

IF We had an Undersecretary of Food Safety...

Posted on January 19, 2010
IF there was an undersecretary for food safety this is what they should be doing...1. Tattoo on a body part that you use every day the Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) Mission Statement:The Food Safety and Inspection Service is the public health agency in the U...

Russian Food Claims Bogus, Senators Say

Posted on January 19, 2010
Russia is making bogus food safety claims to curtail or eliminate American poultry, pork and beef imports, the two top agricultural leaders in the U.S. Senate charge in a letter to President Obama.Democrat Blanche Lincoln and Republican Saxby Chambliss, the chair and ranking member of the Senate Agriculture Committee, urged the President to "fully engage all resources to address these agricultural trade issues, especially with respect to U...

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390 Tons of Beef Recalled for E. coli

Posted on January 19, 2010
California-based Huntington Meat Packing, Inc, is recalling approximately 864,000 pounds--390 tons--of beef that may be contaminated with E. coli O157: H7 after the U.S. Department of Agriculture's (USDA's) Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) found a problem during a Food Safety Assessment...

FSIS to Test Ammoniated Beef for E. coli

Posted on January 19, 2010
In the wake of a New York Times expose, which scrutinized the widespread use of ammoniated meat in ground beef products, the U.S. Department of Agriculture's (USDA's) Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) announced in a directive that it will no longer exclude the chemically-treated beef from testing regulations...

Pistachios Fill Enforcement Report

Posted on January 18, 2010
Fourteen Class I food recalls were included in last week's Enforcement Report from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA). The most frequent reason for recalls in last week's groups was pistachios from Setton Pistachio of Terra Bella were used as ingredients...

Parkers Farm Expands Recall

Posted on January 18, 2010
Over the weekend, the recall of products from Minnesota's Parkers Farms Inc. for possible Listeria contamination greatly expanded.The Coon Rapids company announced Friday it was now including all date codes for its recalled products. Wisconsin and Minnesota both discovered the bacteria in samples of Parkers Farm products...

More Nuts Recalled For Salmonella

Posted on January 18, 2010
Two West Coast companies are recalling small amounts of Pine Nuts and Hazelnuts for fear of Salmonella contamination.Ashland, OR-based PEO Chapter FO recalled 75 one pound packages of its roasted hazelnuts; and Camarillo, CA-based Hines Nut Company recalled 270 packages of Pine Nuts packaged under the Harris Teeter Farmers Market brand...

CFIA Issues Warning Over Salad Mix

Posted on January 18, 2010
The Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) is warning the public not to consume Compliments brand Italian Blend salad mix because the product may be contaminated with Listeria monocytogenes.The affected product, Compliments brand Italian Blend, is sold in 284 g (10 oz...

Abu Dhabi to Up Food Safety Inspections

Posted on January 18, 2010
Public health officials in Abu Dhabi, the capital city of the United Arab Emirates, announced over the weekend that they will inspect more food establishments in 2010 to boost local food safety efforts.Abu Dhabi spent much of past year cracking down on food safety violators after a string of highly publicized food poisonings...

Worry Over Private Safety Audits Down Under

Posted on January 18, 2010
Policymakers in New South Wales (NSW) are voicing concern over the recent privatization of food safety inspections by the state government. Previously, the NSW Food Authority, a government-run agency, conducted strict audits of "high-risk food businesses," like nursing homes and hospitals, but the recent policy change now allows the agency to hire private auditors to conduct the routine inspections...

Pollan Wraps Up Trip on Bainbridge Island

Posted on January 18, 2010
After giving speeches and meeting with students at both Washington State and Western Washington Universities, Michael Pollan arrived at Bainbridge Island High School, likely a bit road weary. However, the three classes filled with students of Mr...

Victims Want Senate Vote By Valentine's

Posted on January 18, 2010
Victims of the Salmonella outbreak caused by the Peanut Corporation of America marked the anniversary of the tragedy by calling on the United States Senate to pass meaningful food safety legislation.All are active in the Make Our Food Safe lobbying campaign by a coalition of consumer and food safety groups who are using the anniversary of the 2009 outbreak involving contaminated peanuts to pressure the Senate for action on food safety...

Honey Risk Factor for Infant Botulism, SIDS

Posted on January 17, 2010
In January 2009, the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) Task Force on Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS) issued a policy statement to endorse 2005 recommendations for preventing SIDS, update parents and health care providers on research related to SIDS, and to provide updated recommendations...

Letter From The Editor: Recalls & Warnings

Posted on January 17, 2010
The Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) announces food recalls and issues warnings about them in a single news release.We were wishing that was the practice at the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) last week. A company called Nurture Inc...

Teacher 'Fed Up' with School Lunch Blogs

Posted on January 17, 2010
An anonymous teacher in Illinois who is "fed up" with low quality school cafeteria food has launched a blog to chronicle the daily offerings of her own school's cafeteria--just as school lunch safety and nutrition issues heat up in Washington and the mainstream media...

Tyson Food Labeling Lawsuits End

Posted on January 17, 2010
A lot of food labeling claims go unchallenged.But when Tyson Foods Inc. in 2007 began its "Raised Without Antibiotics" advertising campaign, it was challenged with false advertising claims by two of its competitors.Perdue Farms and Sanderson Farms both went to court to accuse Tyson of unfair competition for making "implied superiority" claims...

EPA Says it Will Clean Up Illinois River

Posted on January 17, 2010
A "scientifically robust model of the Illinois River watershed" will be built in the next year and half by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) for the purpose of establishing "maximum daily loads" of pollutants like phosphorus from poultry litter...

Nurture Recall Came Before FDA Warning

Posted on January 16, 2010
Food Safety News was in error yesterday when it reported that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) warned the public about a potential danger in baby food before the manufacturer voluntarily recalled the product.The public warning actually was issued six hours after the company recall...

Taco Bell Drive Thru Diet Not a Diet

Posted on January 16, 2010
Taco Bell is advertising a new campaign called the Drive Thru Diet with a spokesperson, Christine Dougherty, who claims to have lost over 50 pounds of weight by eating the lower calorie "fresco" options available on the Taco Bell menu. Fresco is merely an elimination of cheese, which is substituted with pico de gallo (salsa) instead...

Banning Trans Fats--How Important Is It?

Posted on January 16, 2010
On January 1, 2010, California became the first state to ban trans fats in restaurants. Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger signed the bill back in July 2008, but restaurants had until the first of this year to comply. Under the new law, restaurants may only use oils, margarine, and shortening with less than half a gram of trans fat per serving...

Putin Says Chlorine in Chickens Unsafe

Posted on January 16, 2010
Getting another American chicken into Russia just got harder.Prime Minister Vladimir Putin weighted into the Russian ban on U.S. chicken imports."We haven't seen any readiness to meet Russian standards on the part of some of our partners, mainly the companies from the United States," Putin said...

Artist Charged for Gatorade Label Tampering

Posted on January 16, 2010
An artist comparing his work to that of Andy Warhol has not only gotten his 15 minutes of fame, but charges of tampering with food labels, as well. That's a federal offense. ??The 38-year-old artist, Jason Eric Kay of Longmont, Colo., had hit on what he was sure would be a pop art and marketing sensation: relabeling bottles of Gatorade with new labels bearing a picture of golfer Tiger Woods and his estranged wife Elin Woods on one side, and the word "unfaithful" in large block letters on the other...

FDA Sends Mixed Messages on BPA Safety

Posted on January 16, 2010
After missing three deadlines to make a decision on the safety of Bisphenol A (BPA), a chemical commonly used in food containers, the federal government further delayed its decision Friday, announcing that while it has "some concern" about the safety of the chemical, more research is needed...

Miami Horse Slaugtherhouse Shut Down

Posted on January 15, 2010
The illegal horsemeat market west of Miami might still be going officially un-noticed were it not for last year's discovery of 21 carcasses that drew attention to the grisly business.Illegal horsemeat for sale means that at least one illegal slaughterhouse was in operation...

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