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 modifications to FDA’s import alerts, as
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Canadian caviar recall expanded; botulism poisoning risk continues
Last week, Kananaskistrade grained salmon caviar was recalled from the marketplace as the Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) urged consumers to not eat the product because of concerns about botulism poisoning.
The CFIA has
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Research shows Campylobacter, E. coli found at many Dutch cattle farms
Campylobacter was found at most beef cattle farms and a quarter of them had Shiga toxin-producing E. coli, according to a Dutch study.
The National Institute for Public Health and the Environment (RIVM) and Netherlands
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Publisher’s Platform: FSIS knows your chicken is tainted, says it’s OK to sell, but tells you not to wash it
By warning you not to wash chicken (or other poultry), FSIS correctly recognizes the risk of cross-contamination in your kitchen and the risk that it poses to you and your family – especially children and
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States report some grim hepatitis A numbers to CDC, including 236 deaths
The federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in Atlanta has tracked state outbreaks of Hepatitis A for the last three years, and it is not getting any prettier.
CDC Tuesday reported that 29
Criminal convictions top FSIS Quarterly Enforcement Report
The USDA’s quarterly report of enforcement activities by the Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) is topped off by the criminal conviction of Antillio Graniello.
The U.S. District Court for the Nothern District of Georgia
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FDA finds violations at airline caterer, seafood firm, tahini importer
The Food and Drug Administration recently sent warning letters to a tahini importer in Florida in relation to an outbreak, and a seafood processor and airline caterer in California, because inspectors found significant violations of
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Possible outbreak-related Listeria contamination found by Canada in nearly 68 tons of Georgia poultry products
Tip Top Poultry, Inc., in Rockmart, GA. has recalled approximately 135,810 pounds of fully cooked poultry products that may be adulterated with Listeria monocytogenes, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and
USDA finds religious exempt chicken, small operators have pathogen problems
Tests showed a higher than average prevalence of Salmonella and Campylobacter in chicken that is produced under religious exemptions and at low-volume facilities, but the government is not going to propose rules for them.
Hepatitis E infections up; Irish warning cites pork as contributor
The Health Protection Surveillance Center in Ireland has issued a warning about hepatitis E and undercooked pork following an increase in the number of people infected during summer and autumn this past year.
The agency
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