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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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More Eggs Added to Cal-Maine Recall

Posted on November 10, 2010
Cal-Maine Foods, Inc. Tuesday provided more information related to the egg recall it announced Nov. 5. The Mississippi-based company said an additional 120 dozen shell eggs have the potential to be contaminated with Salmonella Enteritidis and added those to the 24,000 dozen (about 300,000) included in an initial recall...

Listeria Inside Another Cheese Processing Plant

Posted on November 10, 2010
The Mexicali Cheese Corp. processing facility in Woodhaven, NY is contaminated with Listeria monocytogenes in at least five locations, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) says.FDA inspected the cheese processing facility after New York State Agriculture Commissioner Patrick Hooker on Aug...

Uncertain Future for U.S. Poultry in Russia

Posted on November 10, 2010
Although U.S. poultry was only recently allowed back in Russia, it seems American chicken is still being eased out.After a meeting between presidents Barack Obama and Dmitry Medvedev in late June, Russia agreed to lift a ban on American poultry that began in January...

Cholera Outbreak Reaches Port-au-Prince

Posted on November 10, 2010
Cholera has reached Port-au-Prince, the Haitian health ministry reported Tuesday.The first confirmed case of Cholera in the country's capital city was a 3-year-old boy who the ministry said had no contact with anyone to the north from the Artibonite region, where the outbreak of the waterborne disease began...

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Records Show More Access to Federal Food Officials

Posted on November 10, 2010
The Obama Administration's top food safety officials appear to be meeting more often with people outside the federal government than they did earlier in their tenure.The Food Safety News analysis of the public calendars of top officials from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and USDA's Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) cannot be definitive...

Grocery Industry Leads APEC Food Safety Training

Posted on November 10, 2010
In an effort to help improve the safety and security of the global food supply, several major American companies and food industry groups have helped lead training seminars in the Asia-Pacific region. At an event held last week in Beijing, the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Partnership Training Institute Network (PTIN) for Food Safety and the Grocery Manufacturers Association (GMA) focused on topics such as supplier selection, managing the supply change preventative practices, risk analysis and export certification...

Federal Spending on Fruits and Veggies Falls Short

Posted on November 10, 2010
A nonprofit group has released a report citing the need for more government support of programs to increase the amount of fruits and vegetables in American diets. The 2010 Gap Analysis, issued Monday by the Produce for Better Health Foundation (PBH), concludes that while federal officials have repeatedly highlighted the importance of consuming more fruits and vegetables, public spending priorities and purchasing initiatives remain far below what is required to close the gap between how many fruits and vegetables people eat and how many they need...

When Salmonella Rocks, Minnesota Rolls

Posted on November 10, 2010
If you're going to come down with Salmonella or some other kind of foodborne illness, here's some advice: Do it in Minnesota.Getting sick won't be any more comfortable up there on the edge of the prairie. But chances are somebody will take notice, track down the source, and do something about it...

Getting Over Mad Cow is So Hard to Do

Posted on November 09, 2010
Somewhere between when the Obama Asian Tour reaches Seoul, South Korea on Wednesday and when it moves over to Yokohama, Japan on Friday, the American president must get barriers to U.S. beef removed.So says Nebraska Sen. Ben Nelson, who managed to pen a list of demands to Obama before the president left for Asia last week...

Canada Making Changes to Regulation of Seeds

Posted on November 09, 2010
The Government of Canada has proposed amendments to its Seeds Regulations to clarify grading, labeling and advertising requirements for seed of plant pest tolerance management (PPTM) varietal blends. Canada is proposing to move forward with these amendments to respond to the evolving needs of the seed and crop sectors...

See No Evil, Do No Evil, Do Nothing

Posted on November 09, 2010
Dan Flynn's "Inspected by USDA" in Food Safety News last month was a particularly thought-provoking editorial, to which I have some responses.USDA's two legal losses stemming from its actions at Supreme Beef (SB) in late 1999 should have exposed a fatal flaw in USDA-Style HACCP, causing the agency to revise its allegedly "science based" meat inspection system...

First Lawsuit Filed in E. coli Cheese Outbreak

Posted on November 09, 2010
The little cube of cheese, picked up from a sample tray at a Phoenix Costco, was probably the smallest bit of food Annette Sutfin nibbled on that day.But three days later, that cheese tidbit would make the 27-year-old social worker so sick she had to seek emergency medical treatment and spend two days in the hospital...

Supersalmon: Are They Safe to Eat?

Posted on November 09, 2010
Leaders of 12 environmental groups ganged up on "supersalmon" Monday, demanding that the Food and Drug Administration conduct a thorough environmental study before deciding whether to approve genetically engineered (GE) salmon for the U.S. market. "How FDA approaches this first request for approval of a GE animal for mass production and human consumption will set a precedent for future GE animal applications," the environmentalists warned in the letter...

Following Chicken Tracks in New 300,000 Egg Recall

Posted on November 09, 2010
An old food safety adage says that if one eats a hamburger, it might contain meat from 100 cows. That maxim might have to be expanded to advise that if you eat 100 eggs, they all might have come from a chicken owned by Jack DeCoster.Over the weekend, Mississippi's Cal-Maine Foods Inc...

Floodwaters Increase Cholera Deaths in Haiti

Posted on November 08, 2010
A Cholera outbreak continues to spread in earthquak-ravaged Haiti. Late last week, the Pan American Health Organization announced that the death toll in the outbreak has risen from 442 three days ago to 501, while the number of people admitted to hospital for the waterborne illness has gone from 6,742 to 7,359...

Canada Rolls Out New Listeria Policy for RTE Food

Posted on November 08, 2010
The first new policy on Listeria monocytogenes in Ready-to-Eat Foods since 2004 will take effect in Canada next April 1.It represents another in the Government of Canada's responses to the Weatherill Report, the independent inquiry into the 2008 Listeria outbreak that killed 23 mostly elderly Canadians out a total of 57 cases...

USDA Plants Rust-Resistant Wheat in Afghanistan

Posted on November 08, 2010
A virulent wheat stem rust that has already ravaged stocks in sub-Saharan Africa threatens Afghanistan's crop as well, so in a joint effort with Egypt the United States has planted 150 tons of rust-resistant wheat seeds in the war-torn nation.U.S. Agriculture Secretary Tom Viilsack announced last week that USDA obtained the seed under a cooperative agreement with Egypt's Agriculture Research Center, which developed the seed and, in turn, donated it to Afghanistan's Ministry of Agriculture, Irrigation, and Livestock (MAIL) for use in a seed multiplication program led by the U...

Canada to Address Bee Colony Threats

Posted on November 08, 2010
The federal Government of Canada and the Canadian Honey Council (CHC) are seeking input from the bee industry on a new voluntary national biosecurity standard that will help bee keepers minimize the risk of pests and diseases in their colonies."Bees are a major contributor to the health and vitality of agriculture," said Agriculture Minister Gerry Ritz...

Salmonella Fears Prompt More Cilantro Recalls

Posted on November 08, 2010
Orval Kent, a maker of refrigerated prepared foods, has announced that it is voluntarily recalling 23 nationally sold products because they may be contaminated with Salmonella.The company said the products are being recalled as a precautionary measure because they contain fresh cilantro produced and distributed by EpicVeg, Inc...

DeLauro: 'Imperative' to Fix Food Safety System

Posted on November 08, 2010
Reacting to recent news of illnesses caused by celery and cheese, U.S. Rep. Rosa DeLauro (D-CT), chairwoman of the Agriculture Appropriations Subcommittee, which oversees the Food and Drug Administration and Department of Agriculture budgets, urged Congress to pass pending food safety legislation...

TV Was Kind to Tomatoes in '08 Salmonella Outbreak

Posted on November 08, 2010
TV's role in the Salmonella Saintpaul outbreak of 2008, which wreaked havoc with the nation's tomato crop, is the subject of a new academic study by Texas Tech University.Published in the November issue of Food Protection Trends, produced by the International Association for Food Protection (IAFP), the study uses "framing theory" to examine how TV covered the S...

Letter From The Editor: Elections

Posted on November 07, 2010
Except for 1974 when Watergate padded the rolls of Tip O'Neill's majority with another 48 votes, Congress never got much of my attention during my politically impressionable years.It just was not very exciting.Until Newt Gingrich busted through in 1994 with a 54-seat gain for the GOP, we just assumed Democrats would always control the U...

Rare E. coli Strain Seen in Costco-linked Outbreak

Posted on November 07, 2010
A rare strain of E. coli O157:H7 never before seen in the national PulseNet database is responsible for the 25 illnesses preliminarily linked to cheese sold or offered in taste samples at Costco, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention...

Hong Kong Listeria Warning for Scottish Salmon

Posted on November 06, 2010
Smoked salmon from Scotland contaminated with Listeria is on the recall list in Hong Kong.The public was warned Thursday not to eat "Loch Fyne" pre-packed ready-to-eat smoked salmon products because they may be contaminated with Listeria monocytogenes...

Pasta Salad Recalled Due to Possible Salmonella

Posted on November 06, 2010
Cilantro that may be contaminated with Salmonella has prompted APPA Fine Food of Corona, CA. to recall approximately 7,325 pounds of ready-to-eat chicken pasta salad, the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) announced Friday...

Cal-Maine Recalls Supplier's Eggs

Posted on November 06, 2010
Cal-Maine Foods, the nation's largest distributor of shell eggs, said it was notified Friday by the Food & Drug Administration (FDA) that a routine environmental study sample of one the company's suppliers, Ohio Fresh Eggs, had tested positive for Salmonella Enteritidis (SE) almost a month earlier...

Salmonella Warning Issued for Red Leaf Lettuce

Posted on November 06, 2010
Southern California residents are being warned by health authorities not to eat certain Fresh Choice Marketing red leaf lettuce sold at three grocers because the lettuce may be contaminated with Salmonella. To date, no illnesses have been reported...

Michigan Bans Caffeine-Laced Alcohol Drinks

Posted on November 06, 2010
Michigan has joined Utah in banning the sale of alcohol drinks infused with caffeine and other stimulants.The Michigan state Liquor Control Commission voted 2-1 Thursday to prohibit the sale of a long list of products that includes Phusion Projects Four Loko blends, United Brands Co...

IOM Suggests Dietary Changes for Day Care Meals

Posted on November 05, 2010
The federally supported meals and snacks served to some children and adults at day care centers should be changed to include more vegetables and fruits, and less saturated fats, trans fat, salt and added sugars says a new report from the Institute of Medicine...

FDA, USDA, Cornell in Alliance for Produce Safety

Posted on November 05, 2010
In anticipation of the new federal regulations on fresh fruits and vegetables expected next year, Cornell University will house a public-private program aimed at providing growers and packers with the most current, science-based food risk and safety information...

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