Some all purpose baking flour packaged for Aldi grocery stores may be contaminated with E. coli and should be not be used, according to a warning today from Rhode Island officials.
The advisory came after
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Center for Food Safety wins in case to force EPA to ban 12 neonicotinoids
Final notices of cancellation for the registration of 12 neonicotinoid pesticides have been published in the Federal Register by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.
The decision to pull the pesticides from the market was part
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Authorities close the net on suspected crime organization; 30 tons of fish seized
Authorities from six European countries have dismantled an alleged criminal organization that sold fish unfit for consumption.
Fish was stored in, and transported to, several EU countries in improper and unsanitary conditions, and then sold
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California’s backyard poultry flocks falling dead from highly contagious virus
Virulent Newcastle disease generally is not a human food safety threat, which is lucky because the poultry sickness is spreading like wildfire in California’s backyard flocks. Virulent Newcastle disease was formerly known as exotic Newcastle
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EFSA proposal designed to help evaluate risks of toxins, chemical contamination
The European Food Safety Authority has created a methodology to improve risk-based classification of Rapid Alert System for Food and Feed (RASFF) notifications on chemical contaminants.
The methodology was developed to evaluate contaminants from food
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Letter to the Editor: The Oath (Version 01)
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Dear Editor,
When the Washington Post published a story, “Pork industry soon will have more power over
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Tyson lost $2.5 million because, they say, FSIS failed to properly inspect hogs
Dr. Yolanda Thomspon was the USDA inspector on duty for the Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) at the Tyson Fresh Meats Inc. plant in Storm Lake, IA, on March 26, 2018.
Her actions that
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11 years of work becomes baseline for Washington Public Health Laboratories
You could say lab rats know what to expect because they know the history.
“Laboratory Review of Foodborne Disease Investigations in Washington State 2007-2017” is all about using the past to prepare for the future.
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Authorities bust criminal ring dealing in ‘yellow gold’ aka fake olive oil
Authorities have dismantled an organized crime group trading in adulterated olive oil in Germany and Italy.
The operation named “Oro Giallo” — Yellow gold in English — involving Europol, Eurojust, the NAS Carabinieri from Italy,
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Ag committee again clears way for Senate to confirm Brashears for USDA
The nomination of Mindy Brashears, currently deputy undersecretary for food safety, to be the USDA’s Under Secretary for Food Safety was reported favorably Tuesday out of the Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry.
The
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USDA quarterly report spotlights violations by some of biggest meat and poultry concerns
USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Service took 31 administrative actions against 21 of the nation’s largest meat and poultry facilities during the second quarter of of the federal fiscal year.
Those included 17 Notices of
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