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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

New Wash Method Launched for Bagged Greens

Posted on October 15, 2010
The New York Times is reporting today that the nation's largest producer of bagged salads, Fresh Express, has switched from washing leafy greens with chlorine, the industry standard, to rinsing its produce with a blend of lactic and peracetic acids diluted in water...

USDA Suspends Tyson Deli Meat Plant in Buffalo

Posted on October 15, 2010
Meat processing was temporarily suspended at Tyson's deli meats plant in Buffalo, NY, an action that by week's end put 480 people out of work.The action was "a result of USDA activities following the plant's voluntary deli meat recall in August," according to Tyson 's spokesman Gary Mickelson...

Fish Importer Must Take Steps to Avoid Botulism

Posted on October 14, 2010
A Bronx seafood processor-importer is not doing enough to prevent botulism in its smoked fish product.Botulism is a potentially deadly infection caused by the Clostridium botulinum bacteria.Gold Coast Trading Co.'s "smoked fish is adulterated, in that it has been prepared, packed, or held under insanitary conditions whereby it may have been rendered injurious to health," according to the U...

Virgin Islands Juice Operation Needs Attention

Posted on October 14, 2010
The juice processing facility operated by St. Thomas Dairies in the Virgin Islands of the United States is violating important food safety regulations.A Sept. 25 warning letter from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to the Trans-Caribbean Dairy Corporation, which owns St...

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Eisenberg Joins United Fresh Produce Association

Posted on October 14, 2010
Barry A. Eisenberg has been named vice president of food safety services for United Fresh Produce Association, the big Washington, D.C.-based industry association and lobbying group. In announcing the move, United Fresh president and CEO Tom Stenzel said, "Dr...

Noodle Preservatives Spark Protest in Jakarta

Posted on October 14, 2010
Protestors have burned piles of instant noodles in the streets of Jakarta, rebuking the Indonesian government for defending the safety of the noodles after Taiwan banned them for containing excessive chemicals.Last week, the Taiwan Health Department announced it was banning Indomie instant noodles, due to excessive levels of preservatives benzoic acid, also known as methyl p-hydroxybenzoate, and parahydroxy benzoate...

Philly School Kitchens Flunk Health Inspections

Posted on October 14, 2010
More than half of the school kitchens in the Philadelphia School District failed the last round of health inspections, according to state records analyzed by Philadelphia Daily News. The worst offenders appeared to be charter schools, which were 66 percent out of compliance, compared with the 53 percent failure rate across the district...

FSIS Moves to Improve Ground Beef Traceback

Posted on October 14, 2010
A former small-scale meat plant owner turned activist yesterday hailed an announcement that federal inspectors testing ground beef samples for E. coli will now try to verify where the meat came from.John Munsell, chairman of the Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Points (HACCP) Committee for R-CALF United Stockgrowers of America, said he was "quite pleased" with the Oct...

UK Hospitals Must Monitor For E. coli and MSSA

Posted on October 13, 2010
Starting in 2011, hospitals in the United Kingdom will be reporting on two more types of "health care associated" infections--E coli and methicillin sensitive Staphylococcus aureus (MSSA).UK hospital infection control teams already monitor MRSA and C difficile (CDI)...

Air Carrier Cautioned About Food Temperatures

Posted on October 13, 2010
Sun Country Airlines, a leisure carrier based in Mendota Heights, MN, just got a lesson in the form of a warning letter from FDA on keeping food safe with proper temperatures.A Sun Country conveyance facility located at Terminal 2 in San Diego was subjected to a comprehensive inspection by FDA from June 17-21, and significant violations of the Public Health Service Act were found...

Consumers Told Not to Eat Salt-Cured Fish

Posted on October 13, 2010
Consumers have been told not to eat "Dried Vobla Fish (Astrakhanskaya)" because the product was found to be uneviscerated, placing it at risk of contamination by botulism spores.Vobla is a Russian word for a fish that is a popular salt-cured snack. It was sold by Ocean Side Pharmacy Inc...

The Extended Value of an Edible Education

Posted on October 13, 2010
As a garden teacher and volunteer at the Edible Schoolyard, the middle school garden and kitchen program in Berkeley, CA, I loved watching a class of 30 or so kids, diverse in every way, work together to tend a one-acre garden bursting with vegetables, herbs, flowers, and chickens...

More Clues to May and July Fresh Express Recalls

Posted on October 13, 2010
Fresh Express, the nation's dominant bagged salad producer, needs to review its criteria for receipt of raw products, according to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) .In an Oct. 6 warning letter to Fernando Aguirre, president and chief executive officer, of Chiquita Brands International Inc and Fresh Express Inc...

LA Food Trucks May Soon Have Letter Grades

Posted on October 13, 2010
Los Angeles' fleet of over 9,000 food trucks, a niche culinary fad gone mainstream in cities across the U.S., will soon be subject to the same food safety rules as restaurants in Los Angeles County.That means rogue food trucks will have to submit to posting their food safety letter grades...

White House, USDA Celebrate Farm to School Program

Posted on October 13, 2010
Two top food-focused administration officials visited a D.C. elementary school yesterday to kick off the Second Annual D.C. Farm to School Week, part of a wider initiative to improve school food nutrition and help children learn about where their food comes from...

Dubai to Require Food Safety Management in 2011

Posted on October 12, 2010
Dubai will begin requiring all food establishments to have a certified Person in Charge for food safety and quality, a move that continues the municipality's drive to improve food safety after two children lost their lives to foodborne illness last year...

National School Lunch Week: What's on Your Tray?

Posted on October 12, 2010
"No child should have to learn on an empty stomach," announced President Obama at his recent Proclamation of National School Lunch Week. In 1962, by joint resolution, Congress designated the week beginning on the second Sunday in October each year as "National School Lunch Week," and requested that the president issue a proclamation for its observance...

Improving Information Technology for Food Safety

Posted on October 12, 2010
Better use of information technology might help minimize the next big foodborne illness outbreak, says Daniel Castro of the Information Technology and Innovation Foundation (ITIF).Writing in the foundation's newsletter, Castro says IT innovations could help public health officials identify and trace outbreaks more quickly...

Oily Gulf Oysters Turn Up -- Sorry, Mr. President

Posted on October 12, 2010
Vinnie's Raw Bar north of Charlotte, NC exists for oysters, but a YouTube video now whirling around the Internet is not doing the restaurant or the Gulf seafood industry any good.That's because the video appears to show an oyster served by Vinnie's that originated in Gulf waters as having oil in it...

No Poultry Litter Decision, But Better River Water

Posted on October 12, 2010
For more than five years, the state of Oklahoma has been suing chicken companies mostly based in Arkansas for allegedly polluting the Illinois River with poultry litter.Nothing has been decided, but as Illinois River Fest 2010 comes off this Saturday (Oct...

FDA Remains Concerned About Antibiotics in Ag

Posted on October 12, 2010
The US Food and Drug Administration is continuing to take a "very serious" look at the link between the use of antibiotics in agriculture and the growing prevalence of antibiotic-resistant bacteria, according to FDA Commissioner Margaret Hamburg.Hamburg discussed the antibiotics issue last week during a question-and-answer session following her remarks at the National Press Club on the agency's initiative to boost regulatory science...

Searching for Formaldehyde in Hong Kong

Posted on October 11, 2010
Hong Kong's Center for Food Safety (CFS) recently went looking for formaldehyde in noodlefish, and found it.CFS, a unit of the Food and Environmental Hygiene Department that serves the Special Administrative Region that governs Hong Kong, targeted formaldehyde in noodlefish in a recent targeted food surveillance exercise...

$6.8 Million in Produce Safety Grants Awarded

Posted on October 11, 2010
The University of California-Davis' Center for Produce Safety has awarded $6.8 million to fund 41 research projects aimed at informing the production of safe fruits, vegetables, and other specialty crops."It's the highest number of awards we've given out at one time," Bonnie Fernandez-Fenaroli, the center's director told The Packer...

Fast-Growing Salmon Causes a Splash

Posted on October 11, 2010
Whether grilled, fried, baked or broiled, Salmon, an oily-fish present in both the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, is one of the most widely consumed species of fish in the world. As an important source of protein, vitamin D and Omega-3 and 6 fatty acids, the numerous health benefits the fish provides, as well as its appealing taste, have positioned it as a staple food in many diets...

Food Bill's Author Fighting for His Political Life

Posted on October 11, 2010
Could this be the "last hurrah" for Rep. John Dingell, dean of the U.S. House and author of the food safety bill?His Republican opponent, medical doctor Rob Steele, leads Dingell by four points, according to a new independent poll of Michigan's 15th Congressional District...

Colbert Satirically Takes on Raw Milk Debate

Posted on October 11, 2010
Popular comedian and commentator Stephen Colbert entered into the debate over raw milk last week, airing a star-studded segment satirizing both the federal government and unpasteurized milk advocates.The Colbert Report segment features Rawesome Foods, a raw food club in Venice, CA, which was raided by federal, state and local authorities in June...

Gloves Alone Aren't Enough for Food Safety

Posted on October 11, 2010
Gloves have become something of a symbol of food safety but, in fact, can inspire a false sense of security, conclude the authors of a series of studies published in the Journal of Food Protection.The authors say that, contrary to common knowledge, even gloves used properly in food preparation can't by themselves adequately protect against food contamination...

Mamey-Flavored Ice Cream Recalled

Posted on October 10, 2010
Mamey-flavored ice cream sold under the La Nuestra brand has been voluntarily recalled by Montalvan's Sales Inc. of Ontario, CA as a precautionary measure, according to the FDA.The ice cream, which was distributed through retail stores and restaurants in Nevada and California, was made with the mamey pulp that was implicated via a strong epidemiologic link to a recent outbreak of Typhoid Fever caused by Salmonella typhi in several Western states, the FDA said in a statement...

Letter From The Editor: "Certified Organic"

Posted on October 10, 2010
If USDA was not the government, would the law look at the way it uses the "organic" label as "misbranding" or possibility a claim that it just cannot substantiate?USDA's Agricultural Marketing Service (AMS) is the federal government, and the law does not apply to Uncle Sam...

Publisher's Platform: On Pain, Fear and Grace

Posted on October 10, 2010
"Pain is fear leaving the body."I am not sure who coined the phrase originally, but a friend of mine says it is on a sign that hangs over the entrance of the pool where his daughter swam during high school. I thought of it again while I was visiting Linda and Richard Rivera in San Francisco, where Linda remains in rehab...

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