Managing EditorMary Rothschild has had an extensive career in Seattle-area journalism as a reporter for 17 years at the Seattle Post-Intelligencer and as an assistant metro editor at the Seattle Times for 12 years. She was also an assignment editor at KING-TV in Seattle, city editor at the Eastside Journal in Bellevue and an assistant metro editor at the News Tribune in Tacoma. She now lives in Port Townsend, WA, where she supports the local Farmers Market, the Jefferson County Land Trust’s efforts to preserve farmland and tries to keep the deer out of her own vegetable patch.
In what is now a Class I recall for a high health risk, NY Gourmet Salads, Inc., a deli supplier and caterer in Brooklyn, is recalling various meat and poultry products that were produced without federal inspection, the Department of Agriculture's Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) announced Thursday.The company's ready-to-eat deli products were also the subject of a public health...
The Child Nutrition bill passed 264-157 by the House of Representatives Thursday includes several provisions to make school meals healthier and safer.The Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act of 2010, had already cleared the Senate by unanimous consent and now goes to President Obama.While the primary thrust of the measure is to make more school breakfasts, lunches and after-school meals available, it...
For the first time, the USDA's Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) has issued a directive for its inspectors on testing and recalling beef contaminated with E. coli O26.The FSIS Notice 70-10, issued Tuesday, follows the August recall of about 8,500 pounds of ground beef by Cargill Meat Solutions Corp. The batch of meat was processed at Cargill's Wyalusing, PA...
Here's a summary of what's in the Senate food safety bill, from sponsor Sen. Dick Durbin (D-IL), as well as what's needed to reconcile it with the House version, from the Congressional Research Service:Who's covered: Producers of all domestic and imported food products, including seafood, fish and shellfish, except meat and poultry and some egg products.Who's not: Farms and very...
Meat and milk from cloned animals is essentially the same as conventionally produced meat and dairy products and unlikely to present food safety risks, according to a British government panel of scientists.At its meeting in London Thursday, the Advisory Committee on Novel Foods and Processes ruled on a hypothetical application for the sale of cloned meat. The ruling is said...
An Ashland, OR organic chocolate maker owned by The Hershey Co. announced a recall Wednesday after Salmonella was found in its product.Artisan Confections Co. said the recall involves 33 cases of small, 0.32 oz tasting squares of its 74 percent cacao Dagoba "New Moon" Organic Chocolate because they may contain Salmonella. The chocolate was sold nationwide online and through natural/specialty food...
To celebrate Thanksgiving here at Food Safety News, we're hosting our fourth virtual potluck (we've also held virtual picnics on Memorial Day, the Fourth of July and Labor Day).We'll be having turkey, of course, and for tips on how to cook a turkey, you can't beat the Food and Drug Administration's Keep Food Safe Blog. For instance, did you procrastinators know it's...
A California company whose raw milk Gouda-style cheese was the source of an E. coli outbreak that sickened at least 38 people in five states has now recalled its entire inventory.The expanded recall of all Bravo Farms cheese was announced Tuesday by the California Department of Food and Agriculture (CDFA). The company said it began thorough testing of its cheese...
A new science scholarship will help students at West Broward High School in Pembroke Pines, FL who hope to pursue higher education.Marler Clark, the Seattle-based food safety law firm, announced a donation Monday of $10,000 to the newly established Marler Clark--Samantha Safranek Scholarship Fund.Samantha Safranek, who graduated from West Broward High last spring, was one of 40 people who became...
The Food and Drug Administration Wednesday warned four companies that the caffeine blended into their malt-alcohol beverages is an "unsafe food additive" and threatened to take action, including seizure of their products, to halt the sale of the drinks.A similar warning was issued by the Federal Trade Commission, which said marketing such beverages "may constitute an unfair or deceptive practice."...
Washington has barred the sale of pre-mixed caffeinated alcohol beverages.The Washington State Liquor Control Board voted unanimously Wednesday to impose a statewide ban on alcohol energy drinks similar to those already announced in Michigan, Oklahoma and Utah. Washington's new rule takes effect Nov. 18.Both Washington's Democratic governor, Christine Gregoire, and its Republican attorney general, Rob McKenna, supported the emergency ban,...
Two new lawsuits were filed Wednesday as the number of confirmed E. coli O157:H7 illnesses linked to a gouda-style cheese rose to 33.A Phoenix woman and parents of a young girl are suing Bravo Farms of Traver, CA, the maker of the raw milk cheese. The woman and child became ill after eating Bravo Farms Dutch Style Gouda Cheese samples...
Cal-Maine Foods, Inc. Tuesday provided more information related to the egg recall it announced Nov. 5. The Mississippi-based company said an additional 120 dozen shell eggs have the potential to be contaminated with Salmonella Enteritidis and added those to the 24,000 dozen (about 300,000) included in an initial recall.The latest batch recalled was packaged as Pippin Loose Medium with a plant...
The little cube of cheese, picked up from a sample tray at a Phoenix Costco, was probably the smallest bit of food Annette Sutfin nibbled on that day.But three days later, that cheese tidbit would make the 27-year-old social worker so sick she had to seek emergency medical treatment and spend two days in the hospital.Sutfin filed suit Monday against...
A rare strain of E. coli O157:H7 never before seen in the national PulseNet database is responsible for the 25 illnesses preliminarily linked to cheese sold or offered in taste samples at Costco, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.PulseNet is the network of state and local public health laboratories and federal food regulatory laboratories that uses molecular...
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