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I am writing this in response to Dan Flynn’s raw milk article which appeared in Food Safety News on April 28. Mr. Flynn’s article reported on raw milk legislation currently being considered in Georgia, Missouri and Iowa.
The article reports that Georgia’s proposed Raw Milk Dairy Act,
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This is a followup on my response to Brianna Leach’s opinion essay published by Food Safety News on May 26. My initial response focused on HACCP. In order for Part Two to make sense, readers might consider reading Part One, entitled “Is contributing author HACCP trained?” published by Food
Continue Reading And . . . What role does pathogen testing play in true HACCP?
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Dear Editor,
I am responding to Brianna Leach’s article released by Food Safety News on May 26. She includes comments on the USDA’s implementation of
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At the time FSIS required all federal plants to implement HACCP, our family-owned slaughter/processing plant had been in existence for 49 years, 24 years of which I had been the manager. Thus, I realized that if we were to continue to exist, that our entire staff would need to
Continue Reading Living a lie behind a miniskirt of science — free speech can be medicinal
I am writing this in response to the article appearing in Food Safety News on Dec. 27 regarding Elsa Murano’s being considered for Secretary of Agriculture. The article refers to Murano’s previous service as the USDA Under Secretary for Food Safety Inspection Service (FSIS) from 2001-2004.
Prior to Murano’s arrival
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We just might be witnessing a watershed change in USDA attitudes regarding testing for E. coli O157:H7, corrective actions subsequent to adverse lab test results, and tracebacks to the true source of contamination.
Due diligence must be addressed these next 12 months to monitor USDA/FSIS’ willingness to implement meaningful
A central focus in the controversy over the use of ammoniated hydroxide to sanitize beef trimmings are the claims that the source meat may be highly pathogenic, otherwise destined for dog food or laced with dangerous bacteria.
So why would the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety Inspection Service (FSIS)
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On February 2, I wrote a commentary that appeared on Food Safety News entitled “USDA Inspected and Approved High-Risk Meat.”
One sentence in the editorial stated “USDA has concluded that Hannaford’s high risk practices likely led to this outbreak,” a reference to Salmonella infections linked to supermarket ground beef.
The Hannaford chain of grocery stores in the Northeast recently recalled ground beef products which were laced with an antibiotic-resistant strain of Salmonella. Like most other retail chains, Hannafords purchases all its meat from outside source slaughter plants.
Salmonella and E. coli are “enteric” bacterium, which is defined as originating
The U.S. Department of Agriculture announced Monday that it would close 5 of its 15 Food Safety and Inspection (FSIS) District Offices as part of a consolidation that will decrease the agency’s budget and save taxpayer dollars.
This financially prudent move prompted Andrew Lorenz, deputy district manager of the agency’s
Continue Reading Will Closing 5 FSIS Offices Impact Food Safety?
