Food Safety NewsDan Flynn is a Denver-based writer and editor with more than ten years of food safety experience. As a public affairs professional, he worked with government and regulatory agencies at the local, state, and federal levels. His career as a journalist included working for newspapers throughout the West, from the Black Hills to Seattle. His on-scene reporting on the collapse of the Idaho’s Teton Dam and the suicide bombing at Washington State University’s Perham Hall was carried by newspapers around the world and was recognized both times regionally by the Associated Press for Best Reporting on a Deadline. Most of the disasters he attends these days involve food illnesses.
Oregon's politically powerful George family, owners of the George Packing Co. in Newberg, was probably expecting the July 15 warning letter from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA).Prominent among Oregon's hazelnut growers, the George Packing Company last March had already been implicated in a multistate outbreak of E. coli O157:H7 attributed to unshelled hazelnuts.The warning letter made public Tuesday...
Wyoming's troubling Campylobacter uptick appears to be edging off a bit and is not in any way connected to the other larger campy hotspot on the U.S.-Mexico border at Yuma County, AZ.As of July 22, the number of Campylobacter cases in Wyoming since June 1 had reached 34. "That is still ahead of our baseline, but not as dramatic...
If you think you have the best idea since Jesus Christ used only five loaves and two fishes to feed the multitude, chances are you are going to fight for it.After taking shots from politicians from so-called Salmon states, AquaBounty Technologies in recent days has begun a counteroffensive for its genetically tweaked Atlantic salmon."We remain confident that the more deliberative...
Salmonella enteritidis (SE) contamination in the laying houses, combined with "alarmingly high rodent populations," make it likely that eggs from a Rose Acre Farms operation in north central Indiana are putting consumers at risk, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration says.Rose Acre Farms Inc. is one of the largest egg producers in the U.S., with laying hens in several midwestern...
Salmonella enteritidis (SE) contamination in the laying houses, combined with "alarmingly high rodent populations," make it likely that eggs from a Rose Acre Farms operation in north central Indiana are putting consumers at risk, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration says.Rose Acre Farms Inc. is one of the largest egg producers in the U.S., with laying hens in several midwestern...
The odor from the outdoor food preparation going on at a business called Home Bakery and Festivals in Chicago was so foul that neighbors began calling local newspapers.In a backyard, three women were working in the heat of Chicago's summer -- one breaking eggs, one using a hose to clean out a mixture from a bucket, and the third shredding...
Antibiotic drug residues were too high in bob veal calves sold for slaughter recently by dairy farms in Wisconsin and Illinois.The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) discovered the animal drug misuse during inspections of Veeser Farms at Casco, WI and Hunter Haven Farms Inc. at Pearl City, IL.In an inspection from last Jan. 27 to Feb. 16, FDA learned...
Provincial Courts in July imposed fines totaling $46,500 for violations of food safety and other laws enforced by the Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA).Heartland Colony Farms Ltd. pled guilty to one count of Canada's Food and Drugs Act in court in Manitoba. A CFIA investigation found the company was unlawfully advertising or selling, or having in its possession for any...
GeneSeek, the Lincoln, NE-based unit of Neogen that traced the linage and genetics behind the first U.S. case of mad cow disease in 2003, is back in the news with a rapid test for all the important strains of E. coli.Called NeoSEEK, the test uses a DNA detection method to identify the presence of any of the seven most common...
The world's leading Maradol papaya grower acknowledged over the weekend that it is facing its most serious food-safety challenge since a pesticide chemical prevented its product from getting into the United States five years ago.Agromod Products Inc., the U.S. marketer for the Tapachula, Mexico-based papaya grower, recalled all of its Blondie, Yaya, Mañanita and Tastylicious brand papayas sold prior to...
I've always been a sucker for bang, bang presentations. Why so many wait so long before getting to the point, I've never been able to figure. Whether it's something I am reading or, God forbid, I have to sit and listen to somebody, I am not just thinking "get to the point," I am thinking "point?"Marion Nestle's "Food Politics" column...
To the long list of things that worry Food & Water Watch, add a river of apple juice coming from China and the high arsenic levels found in that flow. That combo was enough to cause F&WW Thursday to call upon Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Commissioner Margaret Hamburg to set a tolerance level for heavy metals like arsenic in apple...
The missing information on Elisabeth Hagen's "public calendar" at USDA Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) was filled in Wednesday, adding details on another 28 public meetings she has taken since the Senate confirmed her appointment as under secretary for food safety.The new information, which was missing from a July 15 update of the FSIS's public calendar, shows Dr. Hagen...
Most of the "food safety" meetings that top U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) officials have been having lately with parties outside the agency are said to be about implementing and funding the new Food Safety Modernization Act.But on June 30, when Michael R. Taylor, FDA's deputy commissioner for foods, led a delegation from the agency to the House side...
The Auburn, WA-based Punjab Trading Inc., which processes and stores food including red split lentils, was operating below the radar until this past February. That's when the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) paid a visit and collected some of those lentils for analysis by FDA's Pacific Regional Laboratory Northwest."Laboratory analyses confirmed the presence of bird excreta on multiple bags...
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