Nick Hoffman and family practice Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) at Hoffman Farm in Franklin, MA, offer fresh vegetables, eggs and raw milk to shareholders who pay $615 every week.
But earlier this month, Hoffman Farm
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FSA wants views on E. coli O157 guidance revision
The UK Food Standards Agency (FSA) has called for views on proposed changes to its E. coli O157 guidance.
The document helps businesses comply with food hygiene legislation and control cross-contamination with E. coli O157.
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Reality of our world: Money trumps altruism in the quest for safer poultry
Opinion
Editor’s note: This is the second of a two-part opinion piece. To read part one, please click here.
In the previous article, I wrote about the decades-old public health problem of poultry-borne salmonellosis.
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Former strawberry farm worker charged; allegedly put needles in strawberries
A 50-year-old woman has been charged in relation to contamination of strawberries with sewing needles in Australia.
My Ut Trinh was arrested on Sunday and appeared at Brisbane Magistrates Court yesterday, Nov. 12. She had
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Dutch food authority raids meat processor; facility continues to operate
A unit of the Dutch Food and Consumer Product Safety Authority (NVWA) has searched a meat processing facility suspected of selling products without the required accreditation.
The Intelligence and Investigation Service (IOD) of the NVWA
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Letter From The Editor: No statehouse tsunami
Opinion
If you lived at the seashore, a wave hitting your house would be a pretty significant event. But if you lived further away from the seashore, one wave wouldn’t be all that significant.
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U.S. Marshals raid Arkansas food warehouse for widespread infestation
The U.S. Marshals Service has conducted a mass seizure of FDA-regulated products that were being held under unsanitary conditions in which they were exposed to a widespread rodent, insect and live animal infestation.
At the
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UK food safety agency welcomes conviction in girl’s food allergy death
The UK’s Food Standards Agency has welcomed the manslaughter conviction of two men after a teenage girl died due to an allergic reaction to a takeaway meal.
Mohammed Abdul Kuddus, 40, and Harun Rashid, 38,
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Stop Foodborne Illness’s Deirdre Schlunegger retiring from CEO post
Stop Foodborne Illness, the national nonprofit public health organization dedicated to the prevention of illness and death from foodborne pathogens, Thursday announced a transition is underway for its top leadership job as a valued executive
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Don’t wait — Add ‘The Poison Squad’ by Deborah Blum to your reading list
Book Review
“Regulation is bad for business.”
It’s an all-too-common refrain, but not exclusively a modern one.
Most people, when asked what they know about the origin of the U.S. Food, Drug and Cosmetics Act,
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Study looks at rate of Bacillus cereus in infant formula in China
Researchers have investigated the prevalence of Bacillus cereus in infant formula sold in China.
No legal microbiological criteria for the pathogen in powdered infant formula (PIF) and powdered follow-up formula (PFUF) exists in the country.
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