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By Dan Flynn and Suzanna Schreck

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

FDA Shuts Down Maryland Sprouts Grower

Posted on March 15, 2011
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration announced Monday that Vegi-Pak Farm of Mt. Airy, MD, and its president, Sun Ja Lee, and general manager, Brian W. Lee, signed a consent decree earlier this month prohibiting them from processing, holding and distributing bean sprouts due to numerous sanitation problems...

Hamburg Makes Case for Funding FDA in FY 2012

Posted on March 15, 2011
Commissioner of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration Margaret Hamburg made her case for upping resources at FDA for fiscal year 2012 before a House appropriations committee on Friday, citing the agency's "enormous" responsibility and reach."We are responsible for overseeing products that people need, products they care about, products that are fundamental to their health, safety and well-being," said Hamburg in her remarks before the committee last week...

Texas Dairy Recalls Some Chocolate Milk

Posted on March 14, 2011
A Texas company is recalling a limited amount of half gallon plastic bottles of whole chocolate milk, half pint paper cartons of whole chocolate milk, and half pint paper cartons of 1% chocolate milk that may not have been adequately pasteurized.The Oak Farms Dairy plant in Waco said routine testing revealed the affected milk contained alkaline phosphatase, an enzyme naturally present in raw milk, but not in milk that has been sufficiently pasteurized...

Coconut Drink Recalled Due to Mold Problem

Posted on March 14, 2011
A Los Angeles-based company is recalling one lot of its coconut water beverage because a problem with packaging may be permitting the growth of mold.ONE World Enterprises, LLC announced the recall of O.N.E. Coconut Water, packaged in 11.2 oz Tetra Pak cartons, after receiving a small number of consumer complaints...

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Micro Dairies Crucial to Local Food Renaissance

Posted on March 14, 2011
If dairy farming is to remain part of Vermont's agricultural future it must adjust to changing market realities and practice sustainable environmental management. Micro dairy farming offers one viable solution to producing farm fresh milk for local markets...

Health Inspector Scam Hits LA Restaurateurs

Posted on March 14, 2011
When restaurateurs receive notice of an upcoming health inspection, they usually react by getting out the mop and the disinfectant, not the number for the local police department. But restaurant owners in the Los Angeles area are being asked to do just that...

Gearing Up for the 2012 Farm Bill Debate

Posted on March 14, 2011
Daniel Imhoff, a researcher, farmer, author of numerous articles and books, independent publisher, and speaker, recently gave a presentation at the University of Washington about the upcoming 2012 Farm Bill. The March 1 event, sponsored by Northwest Farm Bill Action Group and the University of Washington's Department of Urban Planning and Design in the College of Built Environments, drew a large crowd of students, faculty, and advocates working to reform the U...

EU is Center Stage in Cloning Drama as US Watches

Posted on March 14, 2011
Heat Wave, Feisty Fanny, Full Flush, Heat Seeker, Beauty, Forever Lady, and Snowplow. These are the names of some of the "rock stars" playing a part in a controversial drama that has been dubbed "the cloning revolution." Yes, we're talking about "barnyard rock stars" here -- in this case, bulls and cows that have been been reproduced as clones or have been cloned, a process that creates identical copies of the original animal...

Letter From The Editor: McCain

Posted on March 13, 2011
As fish stories go, this one never seems to end.Just when we thought it could not get any better, along comes John McCain and that baron of food safety, Tom Coburn, to say that the direction Congress took on catfish regulation in the 2008 Farm Bill should be reversed 'cause the two Senators know best...

Listeria Sample Prompts Recall of Sandwiches

Posted on March 13, 2011
An Ohio company is recalling one lot of its trademark crustless sandwiches because they may be contaminated with Listeria monocytogenes.Pierre Foods of Cincinnati announced the voluntary recall of one lot -- 320 cases -- of Pierre? pb jamwich, crustless peanut butter and strawberry jam sandwiches after Listeria monocytogenes was detected in one product sample...

Publisher's Platform: 411 Guide to Safe Food

Posted on March 13, 2011
At Marler Clark, I have been working for nearly two decades on ways to keep consumers informed on issues of food safety. That is why I created a variety of "bug" websites, and why I created Food Safety News and the Foodborne Illness Outbreak Database...

Recall: Possible Salmonella in Whey Protein Powder

Posted on March 12, 2011
Protein powder has been recalled by a Georgia company because the whey protein isolate in the product may be contaminated with Salmonella.Vitalabs, Inc. announced a voluntary recall Friday of four specific lot numbers of Whey-26 Protein Powder distributed in various parts of the United States, including Alabama, Arizona, California, Colorado, Georgia, Florida, Illinois, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Missouri, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, and Washington, as well as outside the U...

USDA Offers Food Safety Tips for Emergencies

Posted on March 12, 2011
With tsunami warnings and advisories issued for Hawaii and the U.S. West Coast, and heavy rains causing floods on the East Coast, the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) is providing recommendations to residents in those areas to minimize the potential for foodborne illnesses due to power outages and other problems often associated with flooding...

Organic Fertilizer Maker Charged with Fraud

Posted on March 12, 2011
Some organic farms in the western United States may have been duped into using non-organic fertilizer, and consumers who thought they were buying organic food may instead have been paying a premium for goods grown with synthetic chemicals.An indictment handed down by a federal grand jury in California Thursday alleges that fertilizers supplied by companies owned by Kenneth Noel Nelson Jr...

Peppermint Tea Also Recalled in Canada

Posted on March 11, 2011
The Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) is warning the public not to consume certain Organic Peppermint Herbal Teas sold by the Metropolitan Tea Company because they may be contaminated with Salmonella.The affected product is part of the recall in the United States of tea produced by Aromatics Inc...

Judge Declines to Hold Hartmann in Contempt

Posted on March 11, 2011
Saying he was going to cut Michael Hartmann some slack, a judge declined to hold the Minnesota dairy farmer in contempt of court for eating food the state of Minnesota had impounded.At a hearing Thursday, Hartmann said his family had consumed the milk, butter, cheese and other food the court had ruled should be destroyed...

Violations Spotted at Seafood Processors

Posted on March 11, 2011
Refrigerated tuna salad and raw shucked scallops in Grand Rapids, fish sauce and frozen salted fish in San Jose, and refrigerated pasteurized crabmeat and fresh tuna in Boston are among the latest seafood products not being processed properly, according to the U...

Vilsack Urges Adoption of Korean Trade Pact

Posted on March 11, 2011
Emphasizing the importance of creating jobs and giving American products an advantage in the Asian-Pacific market, Agricultural Secretary Tom Vilsack outlined the benefits of the U.S.-Korea Foreign Trade Agreement (KORUS) in a news conference earlier this week...

CDC Takes Steps to Halt Norovirus Spread

Posted on March 11, 2011
In 1968, some 150 schoolchildren in Norwalk, Ohio became ill with severe viral gastroenteritis that had never been seen before. Four years later, the prototype strain of the virus best known for causing "stomach flu" was identified and named "Norwalk Virus...

Has China Learned from Melamine Scandal?

Posted on March 11, 2011
Whether it was Great Leap Forward turning out to be a reversal or the Cultural Revolution ending up in chaos, it was years before China's top political bodies felt secure enough to talk about any lessons learned from those experiences.But that was when the People's Republic of China was all red, not like now when Beijing paints mostly in the color of money...

Raw Milk: A Low Incidence/High Consequence Choice

Posted on March 11, 2011
The daily risk factor for consuminig raw milk might be acceptable were it not for the dire consequences involved when one's proverbial luck runs out. It's called a low incidence/ high consequence choice.The 50 states went into 2011 fairly evenly split between those that do and those that do not allow the sale of raw milk...

HVP Again: McCormick Recalls Dip, Gravy Mixes

Posted on March 10, 2011
Once again, products manufactured with hydrolyzed vegetable protein (HVP) may be contaminated with Salmonella, prompting an international recall by McCormick & Company of dip and gravy mixes, as well as corn bread stuffing.The flavoring agent was supplied by Las Vegas-based Basic Food Flavors, the company that manufactures much of the HVP used in dips, soups, dressing and snack foods...

Staph-Related Recall for Bologna in New York

Posted on March 10, 2011
A New York company is recalling about 2,997 pounds of bologna products that may be contaminated with Staphylococcus aureus enterotoxin, the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) said Wednesday.Zweigle's Inc., based in Rochester, said a routine inspection by FSIS revealed that after a malfunction in the company's smokehouse, bologna products were recooked and shipped to a distribution center, but the time delay before recooking the product allowed potential production of Staphylococcus aureus enterotoxin...

Drinking Raw Milk: More Details on the Risks

Posted on March 10, 2011
In response to my recent blog, Drinking Raw Milk: It's Not Worth the Risk, we received a number of questions. Here are some of the most frequently asked questions from our readers, along with my answers.Why focus on raw milk? What about other foods that have made people sick?We get a lot of questions from people who are trying to decide whether or not to drink raw milk, and we want to provide them with science-based information on the risks of drinking raw milk...

Slaughter Reintroduces Bill to Curb Ag Antibiotics

Posted on March 10, 2011
Citing a new estimate--that around 80 percent of all U.S. antibiotics are given to animals--Congresswoman Louise Slaughter (D-NY) reintroduced a bill this week aimed at limiting the use of certain classes of antibiotics in animal agriculture. Slaughter is lobbying her colleagues to support H...

Maine Town Declares Food 'Sovereignty'

Posted on March 10, 2011
Following the lead of Sedgwick, Maine to exempt itself from state and federal food safety regulations, three other towns in Hancock County are now poised to adopt similar "food sovereignty" measures. Titled "The Ordinance to Protect the Health and Integrity of the Local Food System," Sedgwick's four-page document invokes the town's right to self-governance, and states that local producers and processors may sell food to consumers without licensing...

Sizing Food Safety to Fit Small Farms

Posted on March 10, 2011
Editor's Note: This article is part of a continuing series on the Vashon Island School District's new school lumch program, and the farm-to-school movement in this Washington state community. Most farmers would rather sift through a batch of seeds than a pile of paperwork...

McCormick Recall an Error

Posted on March 10, 2011
A news release from McCormick & Co. says that the Georgia Department of Agriculture released an erroneous press statement Wednesday claiming that McCormick was recalling several products manufactured with hydrolyzed vegetable protein due to bacteria contamination...

Ground Beef Recalled for E. coli O157:H7

Posted on March 09, 2011
A Kansas company is recalling 14,158 pounds of ground beef products that may be contaminated with E. coli O157:H7, the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) said late Tuesday. Creekstone Farms Premium Beef of Arkansas City announced the recall after third party lab results confirmed a positive result for E...

Watermelon Jelly Linked to Botulism in Canada

Posted on March 09, 2011
One person is ill and the British Columbia Centre for Disease Control in Canada is warning the public not to eat watermelon jelly sold last year at charity booths because it may be contaminated with Clostridium botulinum, a bacterium that can cause life-threatening botulism...

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