Calling it a “a landmark achievement . . . to improve food safety,” an FDA webpage is hailing the agency’s approval of a antimicrobial treatment that can be used against foodborne pathogens, such as salmonella and E. coli, in agricultural water used to grow produce.
The registration of SANIDATE 12.0 is
Continue Reading Breakthrough in ag water will be benefit to raw produce food safety
It’s a slippery fish — that final food safety rule for water used on crops before they’re harvested.
The goal of the rule is threefold: to prevent people getting sick from foodborne pathogens, to prevent produce-related outbreaks, and to reduce water-related risks.
This is a rule that has been pulled
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Drinking raw milk — even from a certified dairy — puts you at risk for intestinal foodborne diseases, among them E. coli, Salmonella and Listeria. Not only that, diverting contaminated milk to raw cheese production is not necessarily safe.
That’s the warning from a team of public health scientists from
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These sprouts are cool — literally. Unlike other sprouts that were grown in warm, moist conditions, Wild About Sprouts (https://wildaboutsprouts.com) are grown in cool temperatures using a patented process.
Why does this matter?
Turns out that sprout seeds themselves can be the starting point of a foodborne illness
Batten down the hatches. They’re on their way.
We’re talking about rodents, mice and rats, which are formidable enemies to the food industry especially when fall brings cooler weather.
Food processors, warehouse managers, restaurant owners, and even homeowners, know this all too well. After all, the rodents are a lot
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Science fiction down on the farm? What about this? Take some biopsies from live meat animals, put the cells, suspended in nutrients, in large bioreactors, and wait for them to grow into a larger mass that can be processed into products such as burgers and sausages.
When asked for his
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Breast milk is universal — always has been. Whether it’s a poor woman in Africa breastfeeding her baby or a busy career woman in New York City expressing her milk with a pump so she can feed her baby when she gets home from work, mothers everywhere value breast milk
Continue Reading Here’s a toast to human breast milk — Tips for safety and maximizing health benefits
She thought she was dying.
That’s how New York City realtor Penny Penzner felt last summer when she became violently ill from what she thought might be some cut-up fruit she had bought at a nearby deli.
Late that night, she woke up feeling sick — very sick. She ran
Continue Reading Washington state launches reporting system for victims of foodborne illnesses
Farmers Market season is in full swing, and shoppers are out in full force. Smiles are abundant, and for good reason. From watermelons in Texas to fresh greens in the northern climes, this is the season that puts local agriculture in the spotlight.
Food safety is also in the spotlight. At
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Sometimes referred to as “the next big thing in agriculture,” the gene editing of meat animals extends from research labs, livestock farms, and even the federal government’s right to our dinner plates.
Last month, the Food and Drug Administration announced it would lead the regulatory process to bring gene-edited meat
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