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.
Two West Coast companies are recalling small amounts of Pine Nuts and Hazelnuts for fear of Salmonella contamination.Ashland, OR-based PEO Chapter FO recalled 75 one pound packages of its roasted hazelnuts; and Camarillo, CA-based Hines Nut Company recalled 270 packages of Pine Nuts packaged under the Harris Teeter Farmers Market brand.Hines purchased the Pine Nuts from Red River Foods in...
Victims of the Salmonella outbreak caused by the Peanut Corporation of America marked the anniversary of the tragedy by calling on the United States Senate to pass meaningful food safety legislation.All are active in the Make Our Food Safe lobbying campaign by a coalition of consumer and food safety groups who are using the anniversary of the 2009 outbreak involving...
The Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) announces food recalls and issues warnings about them in a single news release.We were wishing that was the practice at the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) last week. A company called Nurture Inc. had a packaging problem with some of its organic baby food. Because we received an e-mail alert about FDA's warning...
A lot of food labeling claims go unchallenged.But when Tyson Foods Inc. in 2007 began its "Raised Without Antibiotics" advertising campaign, it was challenged with false advertising claims by two of its competitors.Perdue Farms and Sanderson Farms both went to court to accuse Tyson of unfair competition for making "implied superiority" claims.Chicken feed used by Tyson contains the antibiotic known...
A "scientifically robust model of the Illinois River watershed" will be built in the next year and half by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) for the purpose of establishing "maximum daily loads" of pollutants like phosphorus from poultry litter.EPA told state officials in Oklahoma and Arkansas about its plans to "take the lead" in cleaning up the waters of...
Food Safety News was in error yesterday when it reported that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) warned the public about a potential danger in baby food before the manufacturer voluntarily recalled the product.The public warning actually was issued six hours after the company recall.Time stamps on the FDA website show baby food maker Nurture Inc. issued its recall...
Getting another American chicken into Russia just got harder.Prime Minister Vladimir Putin weighed into the Russian ban on U.S. chicken imports."We haven't seen any readiness to meet Russian standards on the part of some of our partners, mainly the companies from the United States," Putin said. "If our foreign suppliers are unable or reluctant to meet our security requirements, we...
The illegal horsemeat market west of Miami might still be going officially un-noticed were it not for last year's discovery of 21 carcasses that drew attention to the grisly business.Illegal horsemeat for sale means that at least one illegal slaughterhouse was in operation.Properties containing those facilities became the target of an old-fashioned law enforcement raid by a small army of...
The U. S. Food and Drug Administration is warning consumers not to use Merrick Beef Filet Squares for dogs distributed by Merrick Pet Care.The Merrick product with a package date of "Best By 111911" may be contaminated with Salmonella. It was distributed nationwide through retail stores and Internet sales. Although no illnesses have been associated with Merrick Beef Filet Squares...
In one of those rare instances, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has issued a public warning about a product with a serious food safety problem before the manufacturer did a "voluntary recall" of its own.The FDA acted late Wednesday night to warn parents about baby food manufactured for Nurture Inc. known as HAPPYTOT Stage 4 and HAPPYBABY Stage...
The Paul W. Marks Company, Inc., a 50-year old family-owned food distributor in Everett, MA has a problem with the U.S. Food & Drug Administration (FDA).It is making ready-to-eat chowder that is adulterated, according FDA, because "it may have been prepared, packed, or held under insanitary conditions whereby it may have been rendered injurious to health."Marks got a Dec. 21st...
Frozen scallops being sold at supermarkets are contaminated with Paralytic Shellfish Poisoning toxin, the Hong Kong Centre for Food Safety announced.The products involved are pre-packaged frozen half-shell scallops with PSP toxin levels of 114 micrograms/100 grams.The roe-on half shell scallops come in 0.88-pound packages with a product number of 14272. The sample containing the toxin was taken from the Kai...
Patulin is a toxic substance produced by molds that may grow in apples. While there are no documented cases of human illnesses caused by patuylin, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has set maximum allowable levels for concentrations of patulin of 50 parts per billion (PPB).That's why the applesauce manufactured and sold by the Village Cannery of Vermont, Inc....
Another year, another peanut butter recall.This time Coon Rapids, MN-based Parkers Farm, Inc. is recalling peanut butter and other products because they may be contaminated with listeria monocytogenes. The recalled products were distributed nationwide in the following retail stores: Hy-Vee, Cub, Rainbow, Lunds & Byerly's, Target, Whole Foods, Jewel, Dominick's, Marsh, Price Chopper, Shop Rite, Nash Finch, Sam's Club, Costco,...
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Tuesday rolled out the first phase of its Transparency Initiative, which is designed to explain agency operations, how it makes decisions, and the drug approval process. In an online presentation, the chair of the FDA's Transparency Task Force, Principal Deputy FDA Commissioner Joshua Sharfstein, described a Web-based curriculum called "FDA Basics," aimed at...
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