Public health officials report closing two more Seattle area restaurants. Take a Break Coffee and Kelly Cannoli LLC Seattle were ordered closed during the past week.
Public-Health Seattle-King County closed Kelly Cannoli at 11310 Lake
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More dogs in more ports of entry are being put to work by Customs and Border Protection to help the USDA keep African swine flu from entering the United States. They fear Chinese food containing
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An Illinois grocery store is recalling 54 pounds of ground beef because of test results following routine product sampling by inspectors on March 14, according to a recall notice posted March 19 by the USDA’s
Federal officials have put a New Mexico food producer on notice for unresolved violations documented in 2005, 2009, 2016 and 2018. Inspectors found Ruben’s Inc. was crawling with insects, did not have adequate plumbing, and
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The Food Standards Agency (FSA) has prosecuted a red meat cutting plant due to food hygiene deficiencies.
Asia Halal Meat Suppliers Ltd, based in Birmingham in the United Kingdom, was fined £14,666 (U.S. $19,200) plus
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For the first time in its 21-year history, the Food Safety Summit will include a meeting of members of a regional affiliate of the Association of Food and Drug Officials.
The summit organizers are offering
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A warning letter sent to a Minnesota company recently describes rodent droppings in equipment and insect infestation in production areas. The operators also failed to flush old cider from equipment, causing raw cider to contaminate
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Fullei Fresh of Miami is recalling organic bean sprouts because the Florida Department of Agriculture found a potentially deadly bacteria in a package of the fresh sprouts at a retail store.
The company shipped the
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The United Kingdom will lose access to RASFF after Brexit and Britain’s future relationship with EFSA remains unclear, according to the British public health minister. Britain’s future trade with U.S. food companies is also a
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What is down, up, and down again?
It’s the number of food facilities around the world that are registered with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. The FDA deleted more than 47,600 facilities from its
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Five Scottish companies have launched a fundraising campaign for legal fees to challenge new inspection and enforcement guidance, including food safety measures, regarding raw milk cheese.
The guidance will effectively make production in Scotland unviable,
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