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.
Possible Salmonella contamination of dog food brought a recall Friday from a California company.Natural Balance Pet Foods Inc. recalled its Natural Balance Sweet Potato & Chicken Dry Dog Food with the "Best By" date of June 17, 2011, in 5-lb. and 28-lb. bags because of the potential it is contaminated with Salmonella.The recall was issued after a sample in a...
Toronto's LIF Foods Inc. cannot import or export the next two years, and will not be able to sell any olive oil during the period as well.The Ontario Court of Justice imposed those conditions when it put LIF Foods on probation for two years in addition to imposing fines on the company totaling $50,000.The penalties were for violations of Canada's...
Paris, TX-based Campbell Soup Supply Company, LLC is recalling approximately 15 million pounds of "SpaghettiOs with Meatballs" canned products due to possible under-processing, the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) announced Thursday. The following products are subject to recall: -14.75-ounce cans of "SpaghettiOs" with Meatballs, bearing the identifying product code "U5" on the bottom of the...
Another report into an outbreak of E. coli O157:H7 by an independent commission in the United Kingdom is complete. Several others preceded it.This one is known as the "Griffin Report" after Professor George Griffin from St. George's, University of London. Professor Griffin is an expert in infectious diseases.He was named to head the independent inquiry after the UK went through...
A rapidly expanding recall of ready-to-eat meats has "devastated" Winnipeg-based Smith's Quality Meats.The Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) and Smith's began warning the public not to consume certain ready to eat meats from "Establishment 294" on June 11 because of fear about contamination with Listeria monocytogenes.Smith's and CFIA then expanded the warning June 16 with details about the distribution of...
A new multistate Salmonella outbreak has led to a recall by the food giant ConAgra.ConAgra Foods Packaged Foods, LLC, in Council Bluffs, IA recalled Marie Callender's brand Cheesy Chicken and Rice frozen meals late Thursday, the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) announced. ConAgra recalled all Marie Callender's brand Cheesy Chicken and Rice frozen meals in...
Ohio and Indiana dairy farms were warned earlier this month about selling animals for slaughter that were adulterated by the misuse of antibiotics.Some experts blame the misuse of animal antibiotics for making some common antibiotics less effective in human medicine.The first to receive a warning letter from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration was Troyer Farms in East Laotto, IN. ...
A Portland seafood processor is recalling lobster that may be contaminated with Listeria.Portland Shellfish Company Inc. recalled the following brands of cooked, ready to eat fresh or frozen lobster meat: Portland Shellfish Co. Inc brand, Claw island, Craig's All Natural, and Inland Ocean cooked, fresh or frozen lobster claw and knuckle meat.As recent tests show the product has the potential...
A Canadian judge has decided six months of house arrest is sufficient penalty for violations of both the federal Meat Inspection Act and the Health of Animals Act.Ontario Judge Blouin imposed the sentence of house arrest on Oliver Cheung Hon Mok, who pled guilty last January to one court of violating section 9 (1) of the Meat Inspection Act, and...
Bimbo Bakeries USA, Inc. has recalled Bimbo brand Soft White Bread (1 lb. 4 oz. or 567 grams) sold in California, Idaho, Oregon and Washington because it may contain undeclared milk. People who have an allergy to milk run the risk of life threatening or serious allergic reaction if they consume the product.The product being recalled has a red band...
Jimmy Dean, the story-telling country music artist who created America's No. 1 selling breakfast sausage, is dead at age 81.His death comes more than 25 years after he sold the Jimmy Dean Sausage Co., which today is owned by the Sara Lee Corp. When Jimmy Dean went into the sausage business in the early 1970s, he largely left behind his...
A $25,000 Stephanie Smith Science Scholarship has been established at Rocori High School in Cold Spring, MN with a donation from Marler Clark, the Seattle-based food safety law firm.Smith, a 2005 graduate of Rocori High School, maintained close ties to her Cold Spring community as a Just for Kix dance instructor until she became ill with E. coli in September...
Oyster experts are reporting that when the U.S. Food and Drug Administration sent a diver down after a lost cage last week, they found the bottom of the Gulf area where they were working covered with a thick layer of brown "chocolate" ooze. All the oysters in the cages were dead."How can we possibility clean it up from bottom?" One...
Many a raw milk story includes a statement or two from the Weston A. Price Foundation. Raw milk advocates look to the foundation group to call the shots, often at the state level, and always nationally.I should acknowledge at the outset that there is more going on at the the foundation than its raw milk campaign. Founded in 1999, this...
A world without hunger and safe food to boot is the goal of a new partnership between the University of Minnesota and the United Nations' Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO).The U of M and FAO approved a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) Thursday for the new collaboration to address a range of issues associated with global food security.Dr. Jacques Diouf, FAO...
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