The alarm certainly sounded long and loud in 2022 when Abbott recalled Similac, Alimentum, and EleCare powdered infant formulas after an FDA investigation found Cronobacter sakazakii in the powdered infant formulas.
Do not use recalled product produced at Abbott Nutrition’s Sturgis, MI, facility the FDA urged.
The largest supplier of
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From milk to meat to vegetables, food recalls surged in 2024.
Food safety experts suggest consumer demand for convenience could be part of the problem. Convenience brings risk. The additional handling steps required to bring those further prepared foods to the dinner table create more opportunities for pathogenic contamination. Increased
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Recently Food Safety News reported the CDC declared a late summer outbreak of Listeria infections traced to Boar’s Head deli meats to be over.
We reported “The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention began investigating the Boar’s Head outbreak on July 19. Ultimately the outbreak sickened 59 people across 19
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The Hill, a Washington-based news publication, recently published a story about the New Swine Slaughter Inspection System (NSIS), an outgrowth of the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety Inspection Service (FSIS) HACCP-Based Inspection Model Project (HIMP) with these warnings: “A new rule . . . would reduce
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The newly opened International School for Food Protection (ISFP) was developed to provide an environment different from traditional professional adult learning experiences.
A spokesman said, “The School management team recognizes that experienced food professionals are generally well-versed in their core scientific knowledge, academic education and work experiences. We want to
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Her real title is Phyllis Entis, MSc., SM(NRCM), but she goes by the relatively unattractive name of the “Food Bug Lady.” Her online credo is a lengthy list of things she devoutly believes. All of it can be summed up this way: “I believe that every individual is entitled to
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Over the last 2 years, Food Seminars International has produced over 100 online “webinars” on food safety and related fields. FSI often teams up with the Food Processing Suppliers Association to produce their webinars and the speakers are some of the top people in the business.
FSI and FPSA
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ABC’s Jim Avila, the man who so adroitly ended the expected shelf life of lean, finely textured beef when failed TV chef Jamie Oliver and an award-winning but factually flawed ‘expose’ by the New York Times didn’t make much of a dent, took a swing at the USDA’s proposal to
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The very recent attacks on Beef Products Inc. by groups of well-intentioned but seriously misguided foodies is more proof that good science is too often trumped by manipulated public opinion. For those of you who don’t know the company, BPI produces a boneless lean beef product from trim that is
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Last Friday, Dr. Betsy Booren, Director of Scientific Affairs at the American Meat Institute, received a long-awaited letter from the Food Safety Inspection Service. It had been five long years almost to the day since the AMI had petitioned them to “Recognize the Use of E-beam on Carcasses as a
Continue Reading Did FSIS Blow a Chance to Make Beef Even Safer?
