The COVID-19 global outbreak is hitting local health departments hard with some having to cut inspections of restaurants and other retail food establishments, according to new data from a national organization representing more than 3,000
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Two consumer groups want to see government and industry do something instead of nothing when it comes to keeping certain bacteria out of Americans’ diets via contaminated poultry.
The groups’ leaders say they don’t want
Continue Reading Watchdogs on patrol; seeking safer poultry through preventive controls
State officials are warning the public against consuming unpasteurized milk from a New York dairy because sample test results show it to be contaminated with Listeria.
Anyone who has any raw milk from Serenity Meadows
Continue Reading Raw milk dairy shut down in New York following positive Listeria test
As part of its enforcement activities, the Food and Drug Administration sends warning letters to entities under its jurisdiction. Some letters are not posted for public view until weeks or months after they are sent.
Continue Reading Snacks company receives warning letter for violating federal law
Meat production this week is up about 3 percent compared with the previous week, according to market reports by SiriusXM’s Rural Radio. That’s still off by as much as a third from a year ago.
Continue Reading Sonny Perdue’s predictions about meat production recoveries could be coming true
Coronavirus illnesses to date may touch as little as 4 percent of meat and poultry employment, but it been enough to roil the industry over how much protection the plants need to be safe.
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The Food and Drug Administration uses import alerts to enforce U.S. food safety regulations for food from foreign countries. The agency updates and modifies the alerts as needed.
Recent modifications to FDA’s import alerts, as
Continue Reading Canned foods, seafood, supplements among revised alerts
As part of its enforcement activities, the Food and Drug Administration sends warning letters to entities under its jurisdiction. Some letters are not posted for public view until weeks or months after they are sent.
Continue Reading Warning Letter sent to Promex Distribution for violating federal law
The Food and Drug Administration uses import alerts to enforce U.S. food safety regulations for food from foreign countries. The agency updates and modifies the alerts as needed.
Recent modifications to FDA’s import alerts, as
Continue Reading Pathogens, misbranding, undeclared colors, etc. spur alert modifications
Spanish authorities have seized 100 kilograms of meat suspected to be unfit for human consumption.
Guardia Civil detained the 220 pounds of products in a town in the Gúdar-Javalambre region of the Teruel province as
Continue Reading Spain and Italy clamp down on potentially unsafe products
In what federal prosecutors say is the largest ever fine of its kind, operators of Chipotle Mexican Grill Inc. have agreed to pay $25 million to resolve criminal charges related to foodborne illness outbreaks from
Continue Reading Chipotle agrees to pay $25 million federal fine for role in some outbreaks
