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Food Safety News

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By Dan Flynn and Suzanna Schreck

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

What Kind of Toxin is Dioxin?

Posted on January 18, 2011
You probably haven't heard anything about this group of toxic chemicals for almost six years. Formed during combustion processes such as waste incineration, they're known to increase the likelihood of cancer after long-term low level exposure. At higher levels, dioxins can be disfiguring or deadly...

China Detains 96 for Melamine-Tainted Dairy

Posted on January 18, 2011
Nearly 100 people have been arrested in China for allegedly producing and selling illegal melamine-tainted dairy products, according to official Chinese media.Of the 96 people detained in connection with melamine adulteration, 17 have been convicted, including two people who were sentenced to life in prison...

States Take the "Rabbits for Pets or Meat" Route

Posted on January 18, 2011
The country's economy was humming along in 1989 when a then-unknown filmmaker, Michael Moore, came out with a movie in which one memorable character was a woman named Rhonda Britton, who sold rabbits for "Pets or Meat."Today, insecurity about jobs and housing is making most of the United States feel like the down-and-out residents of Flint, MI who Moore depicted in "Roger & Me...

More States Make Food Safety Appointments

Posted on January 18, 2011
State inauguration ceremonies will wrap up this week for the nation's 26 new state governors. The 18 new Republican and eight new Democratic governors are making appointments to their top state government jobs, including those for food safety. Gubernatorial appointments for food safety oversight typically involve state health and/or agriculture departments, depending upon how the state is organized...

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Cider Maker Might Try Pasteurization

Posted on January 17, 2011
A Maryland orchard whose apple cider has been associated with an outbreak of E. coli announced last week that it may change the way it processes its product.A news report in the Carroll County Times suggested that Baugher's Orchard and Farm in Westminister may pasteurize next season's cider...

Government to Launch New Safe Products Site

Posted on January 17, 2011
The government is expected to launch a new website dedicated to communicating product safety information to consumers. The Consumer Product Safety Commission is set to launch saferproducts.gov, a consolidated clearinghouse for a wide variety of product information and recalls and incident reports filed with the agency...

Idaho Microbiologist Honored for E. coli Work

Posted on January 17, 2011
University of Idaho microbiologist Carolyn Hovde Bohach has been named a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science for her work with E. coli bacteria and a statewide biomedical research network.A College of Agricultural and Life Sciences faculty member since 1990, Bohach studies the lethal enterohemorrhagic bacteria Escherichia coli O157:H7 that can contaminate meat and produce...

If I Had a Magic Wand for Food Safety

Posted on January 17, 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 author and professor Marion Nestle, who writes about food issues on her blog Food Politics...

GMA, Pew Ask Congress for More FDA Funding

Posted on January 17, 2011
Two of the leading voices for consumers and the grocery industry publicly called on Congress to boost funding to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration so the agency can implement the recently enacted food safety law.In an Op-Ed published on The Hill's Congress Blog, Rebecca Rimel, president and CEO of The Pew Charitable Trusts, and Pamela Bailey, president and CEO of the Grocery Manufacturers Association--organizations that both fought hard for the food safety bill--said that additional resources will be critical to fulfill the law's new mandate...

Don't Feed the Hungry Without a Permit

Posted on January 17, 2011
For the past 15 months, Bobby and Amanda Herring say God provided the food for their homeless outreach near the Harris County Jail in Houston, but apparently God forgot to pick up a permit.That's put Feed A Friend, their nonprofit mission of providing warm meals to Houston street people, at odds with the city's Department of Health and Human Services rules for food vendors...

Publisher's Platform: FDA and the 'Mosaic Theory'

Posted on January 17, 2011
In the quiet between Christmas and New Years, the FDA released an environmental assessment conducted in response to a multi-state foodborne disease outbreak involving 33 cases of E. coli O145 infections in five states in the spring of 2010. The CDC's epidemiologic investigation found that the illnesses were associated with the consumption of shredded romaine lettuce processed at one firm (Freshway) in Ohio...

Letter From The Editor: Our Readers

Posted on January 16, 2011
One of the main purposes for my writing in this space each Sunday is to keep Food Safety News readers informed about FSN.Everyone on the production end of this venture is pretty happy with how things are going. The techies always have us looking at something they call "analytics...

Frozen Hamburger Recall Expanded

Posted on January 15, 2011
One Great Burger of Elizabeth, NJ, is expanding its Jan. 10, 2011 recall to include an undetermined amount of additional ground beef products that may have become spoiled, the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) announced Friday...

Label Problem Prompts Recall of Beef Trim

Posted on January 15, 2011
A Denver company is recalling approximately 2,234 pounds of beef trim that was improperly labeled and thus must be considered potentially adulterated, the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) announced Friday.Colorado Meat Packers' product label includes "For Cooking Only," indicating that it is intended for further processing to apply a full lethality at a federally inspected establishment, the FSIS said in a news release...

Salmonella Cases Linked to Sprouts Now at 125

Posted on January 15, 2011
Federal public health authorities reported Friday that a sample of water run-off collected from an Illinois sprout farm matches an outbreak strain of Salmonella that has sickened 125 people.But the grower whose sprouts are implicated disputes the test results...

Pittsburgh Area Restaurants Get Inspection Scores

Posted on January 14, 2011
Restaurants in Pennsylvania's Allegheny County would receive a food safety rating and those inspection scores would be posted online under a proposal being considered by the county's Board of Health.Under the new system given tentative approval this week, a perfect rating would be 100 and points would be deducted if inspectors found violations...

Don't Eat the Toxic Waste Cherry Chews

Posted on January 14, 2011
It seems that a candy called Toxic Waste Nuclear Sludge may be, in fact, potentially hazardous.In a news release posted late Thursday on the U.S. Food and Drug Administration website, an Indianapolis company said it was recalling all flavors of its Toxic Waste� brand Nuclear Sludge� Chew Bars due to elevated levels of lead in the cherry chews...

Listeria Alert Issued for New York Herring

Posted on January 14, 2011
A Brooklyn company is recalling is recalling its "Ossie's Schmaltz Herring" due to Listeria monocytogenes contamination.In a news release, MS Fish Corp. said the problem was discovered after routine sampling by the New York State Department of Agriculture and Markets Food Inspectors, and subsequent analysis of the product by laboratory personnel, found the product to be positive for Listeria monocytogenes...

United Fresh Examines Impact of Food Safety Law

Posted on January 14, 2011
The United Fresh Produce Association has released a new white paper that explores the likely effects of the FDA Food Safety Modernization Act.Available at www.unitedfresh.org, the white paper examines new requirements and regulations under the new law faced by businesses within the fresh produce supply chain...

The Most Important Food Poisoning Prevention

Posted on January 14, 2011
What is one of the most important thing you can do to fight food poisoning? Here are a few hints:It takes only 20 seconds (if you do it the right way).It requires only 3 ingredients.Anyone can do it, even very young children.The answer is Wash Your Hands...

Michigan Cottage Food Law Gets Underway

Posted on January 14, 2011
The Michigan Cottage Food Law, signed by former Democratic Gov. Jennifer Granholm last July, is now taking effect and will likely become a model for legislation in other economically distressed states.Michigan's Food Law of 2000 was amended to define a cottage food seller as "a person who produces or packages non-potentially hazardous food in a kitchen of that person's primary domestic residence...

FDA Asks Judge to Shut Down Juice Maker

Posted on January 14, 2011
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration announced Thursday that it wants to stop Hank J. Hagen and Milton S. Reid and their Jamaica, NY-based operation from processing and distributing juice.At FDA's request, the U.S. Department of Justice filed a complaint seeking an injunction against Hagen, Reid, and their company, which has gone by the names Mystical One LLC and Mystical One Juice LLC...

USDA Unveils New School Lunch Standards

Posted on January 14, 2011
Fat and salt-laden school food beware. The U.S. Department of Agriculture Thursday unveiled proposed nutritional standards for meals served through the National School Lunch and School Breakfast programs, the first major upgrade to nutritional requirements in 15 years...

Penn State Offers Food Safety Program for Growers

Posted on January 13, 2011
As Penn State's College of Agricultural Science sees it, "the 'locavore' movement is growing and those locavores are increasingly demanding assurances that their produce is safe to eat." On top of consumer demand, the recently enacted FDA Food Safety Modernization Act will establish minimum standards for the safe production and harvesting of fruits and vegetables based on known safety risks...

USDA Devises Faster Screening for Campylobacter

Posted on January 13, 2011
Not exactly a household word, Campylobacter is nonetheless one of the top five infectious organisms causing foodborne illness and ranks among the top four foodborne pathogens when it comes to sending its victims to the hospital.Now the U.S. Department of Agriculture's research arm has come up with a faster way to detect Campylobacter in food samples like raw chicken, speeding up a lengthy process that otherwise can take several days or up to a week...

Nanofoods Discussion Group Gears Up in UK

Posted on January 13, 2011
The first meeting of the United Kingdom's Food Standards Agency (FSA) Nanotechnologies and Food Discussion Group is being held today (Jan 13), and the end result may be a register of nanofoods on the market.The group was set up following a recommendation in the House of Lords Select Committee on Science and Technology 2010 report into nanotechnologies and food...

If I Had a Magic Wand for Food Safety

Posted on January 13, 2011
Editor's note: If you had a magic wand, how would you conjure up sustainable ways to make the food supply safe? We asked several people to consider the possibilities. Here is another response, from Dr. Richard Raymond, former Undersecretary for Food Safety at the U...

Humboldt County Says No to Raw Milk Sales

Posted on January 13, 2011
Raw milk vendors and advocates failed earlier this week to persuade California's Humboldt County to lift its ban on the sale of unpasteurized milk.Mark McAfee, owner of the Chino-based Organic Pastures Dairy Company, led the group of raw milk vendors and advocates who approached Humboldt County last August...

More Raw Milk Bans Challenged

Posted on January 13, 2011
People who stretch or break raw milk laws in the U.S. and Canada often are more likely to emerge as folk heroes rather than outlaws. The recent cases involving Armand Bechard in Springfield, MO and Michael Schmidt in Ontario are examples.In April 2009, undercover inspectors from the Springfield-Greene County Health Department saw Bechard's 17-year old and 21-year old daughters selling raw milk in a parking lot...

FDA Food Safety Funding Still on Chopping Block

Posted on January 13, 2011
With the ink barely dry on the new food safety law, the fight over whether to fund the Food and Drug Administration's new mandate is in full swing. Congressman Jack Kingston (R-GA), the new chair of the appropriations subcommittee overseeing the budgets for FDA and the U...

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