For the first time, the UK Department of Health on Friday advised people who eat a lot of red and processed meat to consider cutting down to about 3 oz. to help reduce the risk of bowel cancer.The warning follows a new report, from the independent expert Scientific Advisory Committee on Nutrition (SACN). UK health officials said that while red...
New Market Poultry in Virginia is recalling approximately 3,339 pounds of ice-packed, whole chicken products that may be adulterated due to leaking cooler condensate, the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) announced Friday. The problem was identified Feb. 24 when the company discovered product under USDA retention had been inadvertently shipped to six distribution centers in the Bronx,...
U.S. Marshals Thursday seized about $200,000 worth of food products from the Bedford Cheese Store in Shelbyville, TN, after U.S. Food and Drug Administration investigators said they found evidence of rodents throughout the company's facility.According to an agency news release, an FDA inspection found rodent feces, rodent hair, rodent nesting material, and building defects that could allow rodents and other...
A California company is recalling imported frozen fish--Shishamo Roe Capelin--because of its potential to be contaminated with Clostridium botulinum.The recall by Pacific American Fish Co, Inc. of Vernon, CA was prompted by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration's regulation that salt-cured, uneviscerated fish must not be more than than 5 inches in length. The Shishamo in question exceeded that size parameter...
Green salad with broccoli was what made more than 1,500 school students, teachers and staff members sick earlier this month in Iwaizawa, on Japan's northern island of Hokkaido.The Hokkaido Prefectural Government said Wednesday that broccoli salads prepared at the city's central school kitchen on Feb. 9 tested positive for Salmonella that was a genetic match of the bacteria confirmed in...
Senator Debbie Stabenow (D-MI), the new chair of the Senate Agriculture Committee is urging the agriculture community to focus on "principles, not programs" as they begin working on the all-important farm bill this year."We should start with principles that will guide us as we evaluate what works and what doesn't in today's economy to address the unique challenges facing our...
A cheesemaker in Ontario is recalling cheese that may be contaminated with Listeria monocytogenes.Fifth Town Artisan Cheese Co. of Picton, Ontario is voluntarily recalling its Rose Haus Cave Aged Washed Rind Cheese and with the Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) is warning the public not to consume it.The Rose Haus Cave Aged Washed Rind Cheese is sold in 200 g packages...
A Vancouver, B.C. importer is recalling turmeric powder and with the Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) is warning the public not to consume it because it may be contaminated with Salmonella. Gagan Foods International Ltd. says the affected product, Gagan brand Turmeric (Haldi) Powder, product of India, is sold in 200 g packages bearing UPC 7 75620 31106 4. This product has...
A New York City company is recalling frozen fish from China because of the potential that it may be contaminated with Clostridium botulinum spores, which can cause botulism.Hua Shing International Trading Corp recalled its frozen SCDA (fish) after New York State Department of Agriculture and Markets Food Inspectors, during a routine inspection and subsequent analysis of product by Food Laboratory...
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton sent a U.S. overseas missions cable on Friday to alert the international community to the implementation of the FDA Food Safety Modernization Act and detail the impact the bill will have on imports.The Hagstrom Report, an inside-the-beltway Agriculture newsletter, released a copy of the cable, which contains information about a February 23 briefing in Washington,...
The European Union's Standing Committee on the Food Chain last week failed to come to a consensus on a proposal to allow trace amounts of prohibited genetically modified organisms (GMOs) in certain animal feeds and cotton.The proposed 0.1 percent threshold is intended to avoid a repeat of 2009 when U.S. shipments of soy were rejected by Europe after GMOs, unapproved...
After the UK's Food Standards Agency issued an official guidance this week, detailing the steps food handlers need to prevent cross-contamination by E. coli O157 and other bacteria, the head of a meat trade group called the standards "draconian."The guidance was developed in the aftermath of lethal outbreaks of E. coli O157 in Scotland in 1996, when 400 fell ill...
Citing high crop prices and record exports, Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack held an optimistic tone Thursday in a hearing before the House Agriculture Committee. "On the whole, we are optimistic," Vilsack told the committee, explaining that record U.S. farm exports is a major driver of economic recovery and rural economies. "As you may know, recent data tells us that U.S....
Washington, D.C.-based Center for Science in the Public Interest filed a petition Wednesday asking that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration ban two types of carcinogenic chemicals often labeled as "caramel coloring," most often on products like Coca-Cola, Pepsi and other dark-colored colas.According to CSPI, the artificial brown coloring is made by reacting sugars with ammonia and sulfites under high...
An outbreak of what health authorities believe is Salmonella has sickened at least 1,048 students, teachers, and staff members at nine schools in Iwamizawa, a city of about 90,000 on Japan's northern island of Hokkaido.Students began to have severe diarrhea and other symptoms of foodborne illness last Friday after eating a Thursday lunch of miso soup with potatoes, green salad,...
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