As part of its enforcement activities, the Food and Drug Administration sends warning letters to entities under its jurisdiction. Some letters are not posted for public view until weeks or months after they are sent.
Continue Reading Warning letter sent to importer after Salmonella outbreak prompted investigation
Fear of a Supreme Court review of California’s Proposition 12 has set the state’s congressional Democrats on a different strategy. They want to recall the amicus curiae briefs the federal government dropped last year in
Continue Reading California’s congressional Democrats do not want Prop 12 reviewed by high court
California in 2020 is scheduled to begin implementing more stringent animal confinement standards for in-state and out-of-state producers who sell certain animal products the state.
The new law was overwhelmingly approved in 2018 by California
Continue Reading California animal confinement law will touch sales from out-of-state
Another company is recalling Grained Salmon Caviar 95g made from sockeye salmon because it has the potential to be contaminated with Clostridium botulinum, a bacterium which can cause life-threatening illness or death.
AWERS Inc. of
Continue Reading Grained salmon caviar now under recall in U.S. for Clostridium botulinum risk
Kent Quality Foods Inc. of Grand Rapids, Michigan has recalled approximately 48,681 pounds of ready-to-eat polish sausage with beef products that may be contaminated with extraneous materials, “specifically pieces of flexible pink rubber,” the U.S.
Continue Reading 48,000 pounds of polish sausage with beef recalled for plastic bits
California is officially taking a “Roseanne Roseannadanna” approach with a big “nevermind” about those cancer warnings that were supposed to go on coffee.
Like burning toast, roasting coffee beans produces trace amounts of acrylamide, a
Continue Reading No cancer warnings required on coffee sold in California after all
California firm Richwell Group Inc., doing business as Maxfield Seafood and importer of record, is recalling more than 154,500 pounds of Siluriformes, also known as catfish, that was not presented for import re-inspection into the
Continue Reading Lack of inspection prompts recall of 154,500 pounds of imported catfish
Following a health warning earlier this week from California officials about fresh oysters from Mexico, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Protection issued its own public alert today.
The CDC is working with officials
Continue Reading CDC says certain fresh oysters from Mexico linked to illnesses in the U.S.
California officials have closed some commercial shellfish farming areas while they investigate an outbreak of norovirus that has sickened at least 44 people who reported eating raw oysters from Hog Island Oysters.
The company agreed
Continue Reading Dozens sick after eating raw oysters; Hog Island Oysters subject to recall
President Donald J. Trump’s Justice Department is siding with California over 12 egg-producing states that don’t want egg standards dictated by Sacramento.
Noel J. Francisco, the solicitor general of the United States, has put the
Continue Reading Trump’s DOJ supports California over other egg-producing states
California inspectors have found Salmonella contamination in quesillo cheese imported from an unspecified country, prompting a company to recall two varieties of soft cheese.
The importer is referred to as “Alebrije Dist Wholesale” in a
Continue Reading Importer recalls soft cheeses after officials find Salmonella bacteria
