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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FDA alert modifications include candy, cantaloupes, foreign fish, canned goods
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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Now growing hemp, not deadly cantaloupe, Jensen brothers face felony charges in Kansas
Former cantaloupe growers, brothers Eric and Ryan Jensen, owed $26,368 in restitution imposed by the U.S. District Court in Denver when they decided to work off their debt by helping with a family hemp growing
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Publisher’s Platform: A Father’s Day without a father
My friend and former client and I have stayed in touch since the Listeria cantaloupe outbreak took his father. On this Father’s Day I asked him to put some of his thoughts into words:
Publisher’s Platform: Revive the MDP
Hundreds sicken and hospitalized, dozens with kidney failure and 7 deaths from romaine in the last 12 months in the U.S. and Canada and the response from industry and government has been what? Please put
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Weather played role in deadly Australian Listeria melon outbreak
An investigation into a Listeria outbreak in Australia linked to seven deaths has found the weather played a significant role in contamination.
The outbreak from rockmelons, known as cantaloupe in North America, affected 22 people
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New cases of salmonellosis reported in melon-related outbreak
Ten more people are sick in a Salmonella outbreak that has spread to two more states. Pre-cut melons are implicated, according to public health officials who renewed their public warnings yesterday about the fresh fruit
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Iowa added to list of states that received melon linked to outbreak
As the FDA added another state to the list of those that received pre-cut melon implicated in a salmonellosis outbreak, the chair of the Congressional Food Safety Caucus implored federal agencies to find “what deficiencies
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Publisher’s Platform: FDA continues its role as Chicken Little
After 25 years doing food litigation, I am seldom surprised by the announcement of a foodborne illness outbreak. It was no different last Friday when Indiana announced a multi-state Salmonella outbreak linked to cut fruit
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Salmonella outbreak linked to cut watermelon, honeydew, cantaloupe – Fast Facts
Types of products being recalled
FDA reports fresh cut watermelon, honeydew melon, cantaloupe, and freshcut fruit medley products containing any of these melons produced at the Caito Foods facility in Indianapolis, IN, were reportedly sent
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UPDATE: Fast moving Salmonella outbreak linked to pre-cut melon
UPDATED CONTENT 6:25 p.m. EDT — The CDC is warning the public to not to eat pre-cut cantaloupe and watermelon from certain retailers and to throw it away if they don’t know where it’s from
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