Public health officials say cross contamination in a restaurant was responsible for a Salmonella outbreak that sickened a possible 86 people.
The Piper Arms restaurant in Stone Creek, Ontario, Canada,
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
Canada has announced support for a program designed to strengthen food safety and plant and animal health.
Funding of CAD $500,000 (U.S. $366,000) to the Standards and
The USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) is issuing a public health alert for meat and poultry products containing FDA-regulated dairy ingredients that may be contaminated with
An outbreak of hepatitis A has spurred the FDA to issue a public alert about fresh-frozen blood clams imported from Ecuador and sold under the La Serranita brand.
The
“Notably, the very information FDA is constrained from sharing often originates with state agencies that gathered and first provided it to FDA” -- Steven Mandernach, executive director of AFDO
