Compliance Investigator Joseph Ndungu is a six-year FSIS employee in the Northeast Region of the Office of Investigation, Enforcement and Audit’s (OIEA) Compliance Investigation Division (CID) and part of the investigative arm of the Agency,
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The USDA will operate the new $1.25 billion biosafety level-4 laboratories the federal government is building in Manhattan, KS. A biosafety level 4 laboratory provides the highest level of containment facilities to isolate the most
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The CDC has declared a U.S. outbreak of foodborne illnesses is over. A week before the declaration the implicated harvest area in Mexico was reopened.
Public health officials continue to urge consumers to avoid raw
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Food safety officials in New Zealand are urging people to cook raw mussels thoroughly after an increase in food poisoning.
New Zealand Food Safety reported a rise in people with food poisoning caused by Vibrio
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Sick employees are likely the cause behind reports of hundreds of people becoming sick after eating food from the Pita Hot restaurant in Orange County, CA, according to information in an inspection report.
Public health
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The crowd-sourcing site iwaspoisoned.com has again identified a restaurant that apparently has been making people sick, but there is not yet any official confirmation by local health authorities.
In the past seven days, almost 200
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More than $117 million worth of potentially dangerous food and drink has been seized in an operation coordinated by Interpol and Europol.
Operation Opson VIII found tampered expiration dates on cheese and chicken, controlled medicines
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A break in the cold chain, referred to by industry as temperature abuse, because of a mechanical malfunction prompted C&S Wholesale Grocers Inc. to recall dozens of perishable products, some containing meat or poultry, from
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Two recalls in Canada involving chocolate desserts made with raspberries, which could be contaminated with norovirus, are related to an unspecified outbreak, according to public health officials.
However, the Canadian Food Inspection Agency reports there
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Organic frozen red peppers are under recall nationwide after inspectors found Listeria monocytogenes in a sample of the Woodstock branded product.
Labeled as “Organic Grilled Red Peppers,” the peppers are packaged in 10-ounce plastic bags.
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Frozen berries packaged under Walmart’s Great Value brand and Save A Lot’s Tipton Grove brand are the latest products to be recalled because of the risk of norovirus contamination.
Some recent frozen berry recalls involving
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