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By Dan Flynn and Suzanna Schreck

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

Morningland Dairy Trial Coming to a Close

Posted on January 24, 2011
On the morning of Tuesday, Jan. 11, the trial at the Howell County Court House began in order to determine whether 50,000 pounds of cheese produced at Morningland Dairy LLC, a local raw milk cheese manufacturer located in the Ozarks between Mountain View and Willow Springs, MO, will be destroyed despite no reports of illness...

Too Few Food-Animal Vets, Warn Food Safety Pros

Posted on January 24, 2011
Despite the central role that veterinarians play in food safety, a critical shortage of food-animal veterinarians is threatening the safety of the U.S. food supply, warns Veterinarian Ron DeHaven, CEO of the American Veterinary Medical Association, in a video put out by the association...

Time to Raise a Toast to Veterinarians Worldwide

Posted on January 24, 2011
It's lunchtime and you're starved. Could eat a cow. Well, maybe a hamburger. Better yet a cheeseburger with lots of fried onions.As you savor the freshly made burger and finish it off with some cold milk, you might want to tip your glass in a toast to the many veterinarians dedicated to making sure that the meat, poultry, fish, shellfish, eggs and milk you consume come from healthy animals and are free of pathogens that cause foodborne illnesses...

Letter From The Editor: Walmart

Posted on January 23, 2011
Corporate public images are usually made, and then maintained. Think about corporations like Apple, Boeing, or Disney and what their corporate clothes say to us. It usually doesn't change much from year to year.Now think of Wal-Mart Stores Inc., also known simply as Walmart...

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Publisher's Platform: Lonely Being a Lawyer

Posted on January 23, 2011
Perhaps it was being at the memorial service (with 500 others) for a friend's mother today that made me reflect on my own 53 years. Or perhaps it was being "un-linked" on LinkedIn a week ago by a federal regulatory official who worried that linking with me "might send the wrong message"--to whom, I am not quite sure...

FDA Says Reportable Food Registry is a Success

Posted on January 22, 2011
In its first full year of operation, the early warning system to track problems in the U.S. food supply logged 2,240 reports of possible health hazards, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration said Friday.Michael Taylor, FDA Deputy Commissioner for Foods, called the Reportable Food Registry's first-year record "a measure of our success" in helping regulators and the industry to move quickly to get dangerous foods off grocery shelves and out of the marketplace...

Botulism Concerns in Salsa, Con Queso Recall

Posted on January 21, 2011
Con Queso and salsa distributed in Arizona and Washington are being recalled by a Phoenix company after a routine inspection by the Food and Drug Administration found that the products were not processed according to acidified food regulations.Mama Rose's Gourmet Foods is voluntarily recalling its Cilantro Con Queso, Garlic Con Queso, Viper Venom Con Queso and Hopi Corn Salsa, because they have the potential to be contaminated with Clostridium botulinum, a bacterium which can cause life-threatening illness or death...

HACCP Course Aims to Aid Organic Businesses

Posted on January 21, 2011
The Organic Trade Association (OTA) and NSF International's Training and Education division are joining forces to offer a two-day HACCP (Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Points) course aimed to help the organic sector maintain both certified organic and food safety standards...

Michigan, New Hampshire Warn of Fake Inspectors

Posted on January 21, 2011
Health officials in both Michigan and New Hampshire are warning restaurants to be wary of callers claiming to be state food inspectors.New Hampshire first issued a warning in June about fraudulent food inspectors and recently issued an updated warning because officials believe the problem is persisting...

Briefing Set for Budapest Codex Meeting

Posted on January 21, 2011
Before the U.S. delegation jets off to Budapest for the 32nd Session of the Codex Committee on Methods of Analysis and Sampling (CCMAS) on March 7-11, 2011, there will be a public meeting for everybody who has to stay home.At that meeting, federal government agencies involved in Codex will provide information on the Budapest agenda and take comments from Americans on agenda items...

Portland Shellfish Agrees to Interstate Sales Ban

Posted on January 21, 2011
Maine's Portland Shellfish Co. Inc., and its officers have agreed to a consent degree that prohibits any of them from distributing seafood through interstate commence until they get federal approval for a Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Point (HACCP) plan, sanitation program and Listeria monocytogenes (L...

Trying to Slim an Obese Nation

Posted on January 21, 2011
As First Lady Michelle Obama was announcing her support of retail giant Walmart's plan to reduce fats, sugars and salts in packaged foods, a federal report emphasized the magnitude of the nation's weight problem.We are getting heavier.On average, U.S...

Walmart Unveils Healthy Food Initiative

Posted on January 21, 2011
First Lady Michelle Obama joined America's largest grocery chain, Walmart, Thursday to announce that the Fortune 500 company has a five-year plan to increase healthy food offerings, reduce fresh produce prices, and improve access to affordable food, a move intended to complement Mrs...

Botulism Fear Prompts Recall of Black Bean Sauce

Posted on January 20, 2011
Hawaii Business Group Inc., Barb's Favorite Recipes and Ohana Seafoods are recalling Barb's Local Style Black Bean Sauce and Ohana Flavors Black Bean Sauce because of possible health risks due to the potential growth of Clostridium Botulinum (botulism), a bacterium which can cause life-threatening illness or death...

'Food Freedom' Dies, Raw Milk Up Next in Wyoming

Posted on January 20, 2011
After turning down a so-called "Food Freedom" bill, a Wyoming state legislative committee is scheduled to consider a proposal today that would legalize the sale of raw milk through "herd-share agreements."Under such arrangements, legal in some states and done in others to skirt public food-safety laws, farmers sell an ownership share of a cow or herd to consumers who want to drink unpasteurized milk...

Improperly Pasteurized Milk Recalled in New York

Posted on January 20, 2011
New York State Acting Agriculture Commissioner Darrel J. Aubertine today alerted consumers that certain milk products distributed by FingerLakes Farms LLC, from Plant #36-1131, are being voluntarily recalled due to improper pasteurization. Proper pasteurization heats milk in order to effectively eliminate all pathogenic bacteria, such as Listeria and Salmonella...

Gleaning Will Change the Way You Think About Food

Posted on January 20, 2011
Americans waste nearly half a billion pounds of food every day. When we waste food, we throw away money, too--as much as $160 billion annually.Waste is pervasive and occurs at every level of our ever-protracted food supply chain. It begins at the source with crops left to be retilled into the fields and concludes with yellowing lettuce in our refrigerators...

No Dioxin in German Foods Bound for Hong Kong

Posted on January 20, 2011
For the second time in less than a week, multiple foods imported from German have passed dioxin tests by Hong Kong's Center for Food Safety, known for its ability to sniff out chemicals in edibles.Getting its food products back into Hong Kong is a sign the German dioxin scandal may be on the wane...

Kid Foods Labeled 'Better for You' Often Aren't

Posted on January 20, 2011
When the label on the children's food product says it's better for you, chances are it's not, and one nutrition advocacy group suggests that in the absence of federal regulation, companies are making deceptive claims.Prevention Institute of Oakland, CA...

CSPI's Report Card: The North and South Of It

Posted on January 20, 2011
A statistical study of federal and state food safety data confirms what most authorities have long believed--that some state health departments are dramatically better than others at detecting foodborne illness outbreaks.The report released Wednesday by the Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI) uses 10 years of data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to assess how well states detect and report outbreaks of Salmonella, E...

FDA Warns California Dairy About Drug Misuse

Posted on January 19, 2011
The federal Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has issued a warning letter over the misuse of animal drugs at Vander Schaaf Dairy #2, located in Escalon, CA.According to FDA, the dairy offered an animal for sale for slaughter as food that was adulterated...

Chicago Ground Beef Recall Expanded

Posted on January 19, 2011
A Chicago company has expanded a food recall to include an additional 580 pounds of ground beef patties that may be contaminated with E. coli 0157:H7.Columbus Meat took the action after state inspectors discovered the same batch of contaminated source material was used to produce patties on more than one day...

Accidental Beef Shipment Retrieved

Posted on January 19, 2011
A California company says it has retrieved approximately 7,875 pounds of cooked, ready-to-eat ground beef patties that may have been contaminated with Listeria monocytogenes and inadvertently distributed, according to a U.S. Department of Agriculture's Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) news release...

If I Had a Magic Wand for Food Safety

Posted on January 19, 2011
Editor's note: If you had a magic wand, how would you conjure up ways to make the food supply safe? We asked several people to consider the possibilities. Here is another response, from frequent Food Safety News contributor Cookson Beecher: It was a blustery afternoon so when I heard a noise at the front door, I assumed it was just some branches blowing across the porch...

Listeria Found Inside Brooklyn Cheese Facility

Posted on January 19, 2011
Last summer Brooklyn's Azteca Linda Corp. was busy recalling cheese for Listeria monocytogenes contamination. Now a new Jan. 7 warning letter from the federal Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to Azteca Linda Corp. tells the rest of the story.Azteca's Queso Fresco (Fresh White Cheese) and Queso Hebra (Fresh White String Cheese) were subject to a July 1 recall after FDA, during an inspection, found that the products were contaminated with Listeria...

Could GM Chicken Halt Bird Flu?

Posted on January 19, 2011
As the U.S. awaits word on whether federal regulators will OK a genetically modified salmon, there's news--and more controversy--about GM chickens developed by researchers at the universities of Cambridge and Edinburgh.First described in the journal Science, the transgenic chickens cannot transmit avian influenza virus (H5N1) to other chickens...

Taiwan Refuses to Reconsider Paylean Ban

Posted on January 19, 2011
Taiwan does not intend to revisit its ban on animal drug Paylean, a key Taiwanese official said this week after imported U.S. meat was found to illegally contain traces of the drug, which promotes lean muscle growth."Taiwan's existing law prohibits the use of any leanness drugs," said Council of Agriculture Minister Chen Wu-hsiung, adding that the law applies to imported and domestically produced meat...

Sprouts Grower Says FDA Test Results Misleading

Posted on January 18, 2011
It's misleading to say that water run-off from an Illinois sprouts farm links the farm to a multi-state outbreak of Salmonella, the grower told the online agriculture magazine, The Packer. In the report published Monday, Tiny Greens Organic Farm owner Bill Bagby told The Packer the sample that tested positive for the outbreak strain was collected outside his indoor growing operation...

Australian Plant Installs New Cutting Technology

Posted on January 18, 2011
Craig Mostyn Group's Linley Valley Fresh Pork, a large pork processing facility located in Wooroloo, Western Australia, has recently installed Australia's first laser guided pork cutting robot.At a cost of approximately $700,000, the new robot, similar to robots used in the car manufacturing industry, has been recognized as highly accurate...

EU Team to Follow Up on German Dioxin Scandal

Posted on January 18, 2011
Member nations in the European Union oversee food safety within their own territories, but the European Commission coordinates among the EU states when problems arise that cross borders.So the EU announced Monday that it will send a team to Germany to examine how animal feed became tainted with the dioxin, and the subsequent steps Germany took to trace and stem the contamination...

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