Letter From The Editor: BP Oil Spill, Three Years Later
By Dan Flynn | May 26, 2013 About two weeks before the explosion and fire on the Deepwater Horizon oil platform off the coast of Louisiana, Food Safety News pictured the wrong species when reporting on a West Coast oyster story. We quickly heard from Ed Cake of Gulf Environmental Associates in Biloxi, MS who pointed out our mistake and cheerfully agreed to be a resource for us in he future for keeping oyster mugshots straight. Ed Cake, "Oyster 1" on his Mississippi plate,...
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A Sauk County, Wisconsin jury, meeting until 1 a.m. Saturday, acquitted Vernon Hershberger on three charges: operating a farm store without a retail food establishment permit, operating a dairy farm without...
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Ah, summer. Memorial Day is on its way. Time to gear up for picnics and barbecues! Along with shopping lists, recipes and guest lists, here’s something else to put in your holiday file: If you want to be the “hostess with the mostest” or the “host who can boast,” you’ll want to keep food safety… Continue Reading
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Kathleen Merrigan, who recently left her role as Deputy Secretary of Agriculture at the U.S. Department of Agriculture, said this week she is concerned about the negative impact the Food Safety Modernization Act could have on small- and medium-sized farms. According to a report by AgriPulse, Merrigan made the remarks at CropLife America’s National Policy… Continue Reading
A new rule to implement mandatory country of origin labeling (COOL) for muscle cuts of beef still put the U.S. out of compliance with the World Trade Organization (WTO)’s Agreement on Technical Barriers to Trade, say Canada and Mexico. The final rule, issued by the U.S. Department of Agriculture Thursday, might mean Canada and Mexico… Continue Reading
Sunland, Inc., the New Mexico-based peanut butter producer involved in a multistate Salmonella outbreak and massive product recall in 2012, has resumed operations after a half-year suspension, and aims to have peanut butter back on store shelves next month, company executives told the Associated Press Thursday. The nation’s largest organic nut butter maker was the… Continue Reading
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The majority of foodborne illness outbreaks caused by antibiotic-resistant pathogens on record have occurred in the past thirteen years, according to a new report released by the Center for Science in the Public Interest on Wednesday. The analysis found that between 1973 and 2011 there were 55 antibiotic-resistant outbreaks, 34 (58 percent) of which occurred… Continue Reading
A second legislative body wants to require food manufacturers to label products with genetically modified organisms (GMOs). The Connecticut Senate has voted 35-to-1 in favor of a GMO labeling bill, joining the Vermont House’s 99-to-42 vote on a nearly identical measure earlier this month. The Vermont Senate won’t take up GMO food labeling until at… Continue Reading
The 42 Good Husbandry Grants recently awarded by Animal Welfare Approved to farms and slaughter plants across the country are yet another sign of changes occurring in the livestock industry. “It’s really a testament to how agriculture is transitioning from industrialized to pasture-based,” said AWA program director Andrew Gunther, referring to the many applications the organization received… Continue Reading
The imported tahini paste that was linked to two Salmonella illnesses in Minnesota children last week has now been connected to a nationwide outbreak affecting at least eight people, health officials report. Cases have occurred in six states, including California (1 case), Minnesota (2), North Dakota (1), New York (1), Texas (2) and Wisconsin (1),… Continue Reading
Epidemiologists think they have found the source of a Salmonella outbreak linked to Las Vegas’s Firefly restaurant that is now known to have sickened at least 294 people – almost 100 more illnesses than health officials previously reported. The Southern Nevada Health District announced Wednesday that the outbreak strain of Salmonella had been found in… Continue Reading
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