A petition to USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Service asking for the listing of 31 Salmonella strains as meat and poultry adulterants raises a question. How did FSIS respond the last time someone wanted to
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Letter to the Editor: Swine inspections from the Canadian perspective
Opinion
Dear Editor,
As a former CFIA ( Canadian Food Inspection Agency) inspector, I have been following this story regarding the change in inspections on the hog plants with great interest. Change is hard but
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Beach Beat: The faces behind the petition
Opinion
If you haven’t heard, a Seattle attorney is petitioning the USDA to make it illegal to sell meat and poultry that is contaminated with Salmonella.
Yep, as of right now — and who knows
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Marler ups the ante on meat industry; petitions USDA to ban 31 Salmonella strains
Attorneys representing the Center for Science in the Public Interest sued USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Service in 2014 because the agency would not declare the most dangerous Salmonella strains as adulterants.
But after only
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Faces of Food Safety: Meet Christina Hastings of the FSIS
Christina Hastings, a relief consumer safety inspector (CSI) in the Raleigh district, exemplifies all of FSIS’ core values — Accountable, Collaborative, Empowered and Solutions-Oriented, and she puts them into practice each day she performs her
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FDA warns fresh fruit company, seasoning firm about serious violations
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.
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FDA should require recall of unsafe tuna to protect consumers
Opinion
A recently announced interpretation of authority on mandatory recalls weakens food safety.
The Food and Drug Administration’s decision late last year not to order a mandatory recall of yellowfin tuna that sickened at least
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Companies have Safe Food for Canadians licenses suspended
During the first few days of the new year, the Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) has suspended the Safe Food for Canadians (SFC) licenses of three food companies, including a fish importer, multi-commodity processor, and
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E. coli outbreaks may be over, but without a source or root cause for the romaine problem
It’s a rare day when two multistate and one single state outbreaks of E. coli O157:H7 are declared over.
It’s likely even a first-time event, just another in the odyssey that’s played out since late
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FDA sends warning letter to Kohyo America Inc. for its frozen egg facility
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.
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More than 50 sick in Argentinian city due to Salmonella
An emergency committee to control the sale of food has been created in a city in northwest Argentina after a spike in Salmonella cases in early 2020.
There have been 51 confirmed cases of Salmonella
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