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.
Friz-It Cold Storage Inc. advertises itself as being both "FDA/HACCP compliant" and for having the "newest, best-designed" cold storage for the fresh and frozen fish and seafood industry in the southeastern United States.But during its most recent inspection, last July 7-13, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) found "serious violations" of federal food safety measures at Friz-It. In a...
A Los Angles tuna and wahoo fish importer is violating federal food safety regulations, according to the Food and Drug Administration.In an Oct. 15 warning letter to Prime Time Seafood Inc., FDA said the seafood processor and importer has "serious violations" of the seafood Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Point (HACCP) and other federal food safety regulations.As a result, FDA...
Environmental samples taken from inside a south Chicago fresh produce plant tested positive for Listeria monocytogenes, according to the Food and Drug Administration.The FDA said it took the samples during an inspection of Eagle Products from last April 13 to June 24. In a Nov. 10 warning letter to the produce company, the FDA said its investigation revealed numerous other...
The bill that is supposed to empower the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) instead contains some restrictions when it comes to the oyster industry thanks to one Louisiana senator.Democratic U.S. Senator Mary L. Landrieu managed to get language in the Senate Food Safety Bill, S. 510, that limits FDA's authority on postharvest processing for raw oysters by first requiring involvement...
The first possible destruction of a genetically modified crop in the United States is not going to happen without review by higher courts.Monsanto Company said Wednesday it would appeal a ruling by U.S. District Court Judge Jeffrey White of San Francisco to uproot limited late-season and isolated plantings of sugar beet seedlings, or stecklings, authorized in September under permits issued...
Since last August when his egg production was found to be the likely source of a multistate outbreak of Salmonella Enteritidis (SE), "Jack" DeCoster has not been allowed to sell so much as a single egg from any of his six Iowa farms.Yesterday that all changed. In a five-page letter to DeCoster, the Food and Drug Administration gave Wright County...
Melamine-ware used by local food premises is safe to use, Hong Kong's Center for Food Safety (CFS) found in a risk assessment study.Tableware products made of melamine-formaldehyde resins (generally described as melamine-ware) were widely used around the world due to their durability, good chemical and heat resistance and low cost.Since China's melamine scandal two years ago involving infant milk products,...
The New York City-led National Salt Reduction Initiative (NSRI) continues to pick up commitments.Latest to sign on are Hostess, Butterball, Snyder's of Hanover, Premio, Furmano's and Delhaize America, the New York City Health Department says.The companies new to sign on join 16 of the nation's leading food makers in a nationwide effort to cut the salt in packaged and restaurant...
The Gulf seafood story, which began with the April 20 explosion of the Deepwater Horizon oil platform and subsequent spill of BP's oil, is ending 2010 on a decidedly murky note."America's Night Out For Gulf Seafood" this coming Friday (Dec. 1) will see more than 150 chefs and top restaurants around the country putting Gulf fish, oysters, shrimp and crabs...
A commercial poultry farm located about 18 miles northwest of Winnipeg has been placed under quarantine because of low pathogenic H5N2 avian influenza.The Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) confirmed on Nov. 24 that the bird flu virus was detected in the Rural Municipality of Rockwood, Manitoba. CFIA announced the quarantine the next day.Pathogenicity refers to the severity of the illness...
Regular readers know to "watch this space" for behind the scenes information about Food Safety News.With just over 30 days before 2010 is history, it is time again for some of our popular year-end features. We are inviting readers to make their nominations known to us over the next week or so.We are accepting nominations for our annual Naughty or...
Oklahoma's newly elected leadership, Republicans Governor-elect Mary Fallin and Attorney General-elect Scott Pruitt, say they have the future of the state's litigation against the poultry industry over its pollution of public waters under formal review.Executive power in the Sooner State will turn over in January when both Gov. Brad Henry and Attorney General Drew Edmonson, both Democrats, are replaced, respectively,...
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) sends warning letters out to manufacturers and processors with food safety problems that sometimes also point up how much misunderstanding still exists.The Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Point (HACCP) regulations, for example, are the new bible of food safety, but beyond the experts it's a subject matter that can get a little foggy.Consider,...
The Indiana State Department of Health placed flour under embargo from a food processing and storage facility in Indianapolis that Food and Drug Administration inspectors depicted as "contaminated with filth."The company, DW Trading Inc., subsequently destroyed the flour along with some noodles and other food items.A Sept. 30 FDA warning letter to DW Trading provides details about conditions the state...
Butcher William John Tudor sold rotten meat for years, according to testimony in a coroner's inquest in Wales this week, but that did not lead to a verdict against him for unlawful killing.Instead, Gwent coroner David Bowen said five-year old Mason Jones' death during the 2005 outbreak of E. coli O157:H7 in Wales was the result of a systematic failure....
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