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FDA responds to questions about report on lead, other toxins in baby food

By U.S. Food and Drug Administration on February 17, 2021
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Editor’s note: For news about the congressional report, please click here.

The FDA takes exposure to toxic elements in the food supply extremely seriously, especially when it comes to protecting the health and…
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Experts examine reasons for different Salmonella results

By Joe Whitworth on February 17, 2021

Wageningen University scientists have looked at why there are discrepancies in Salmonella results between poultry farmers’ and authorities’ tests.

Experts analyzed factors associated with the difference between positive tests from routine initial Salmonella monitoring by…
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CDC Health Advisory for dangerous XDR Typhi infections in United States

By News Desk on February 17, 2021

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has issued a Health Advisory for an  “extensively drug-resistant (XDR) Salmonella Typhi (Typhi) infection among U.S. residents without international travel that is food and waterborne with a fatality…
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Two sick in France because of Trichinella in wild boar meat

By News Desk on February 17, 2021

Two people have been diagnosed with trichinellosis after eating undercooked wild boar meat in France.

The animal was killed during a hunt on Dec. 8, 2020, in the Pyrénées-Orientales region. The two hunters from Vallespir…
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Import alerts include problems with cheese, shrimp, misbranding, pesticides

By News Desk on February 17, 2021

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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 …
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Australian breakthrough is the new alternative to milk pasteurization

By News Desk on February 16, 2021

See note on correction at bottom.

From “down under” comes news that is said to be the biggest breakthrough in dairy safety since pasteurization. It has been accepted as “an alternative treatment to pasteurization of…
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COVID-19 measures accompany decline of foodborne infections

By Joe Whitworth on February 16, 2021

There has been a drastic decrease in reported diseases including foodborne infections in Germany during the Coronavirus outbreak, according to an analysis.

Robert Koch Institute (RKI) experts found the COVID-19 pandemic and associated public health…
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Coronavirus will have lasting impact on restaurant industry

By Guest Opinion on February 16, 2021
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By Emily Newton
The COVID-19 pandemic has wreaked havoc on the restaurant industry, but it hasn’t ended it. Thanks to quick reactions and a willingness to adjust, establishments of all sizes, locations and niches…
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Researchers discover how harmless E. coli turns pathogenic

By News Desk on February 16, 2021

Scientists have determined how harmless E. coli gut bacteria in chickens can pick up the genes required to evolve and cause infections in poultry and people.

Colibacillosis caused by avian pathogenic E. coli (APEC) is…
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Victims of 2015 Listeria outbreak involving Blue Bell invited to follow Kruse case

By Dan Flynn on February 15, 2021

Victims of foodborne illness are often so numerous that the government wants to cast the wide internet in contacting them about felony prosecutions that often occur years later.

Federal prosecutors who plan to take former…
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