Cargill is recalling select lots of Milk and Dark Chocolate Covered Peanut Butter Ritz® Crackers, Peanut Butter Meltaways, Peanut Butter Eggs and Fudge sold through the Wilbur Chocolate Retail Store in Lititz, Pennsylvania and online
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There is a lack of trust in remote audits from some in the food industry, according to an expert who looked into the subject for the Global Food Safety Initiative (GFSI).
Solely remote audits are
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The Consumer Federation of America (CFA) presented an installment of its Virtual National Policy Conference series, titled “A New Day at USDA for Food Safety?” on Tuesday.
Speakers included Dr. Patricia Griffin, chief of
Continue Reading Stakeholders reaffirm need for more modern meat and poultry policies
By Brendan Fischer and Maggie Christ
Despite what you might think, America’s broken campaign finance system is about more than expensive ads flooding your screen and glossy mailers clogging your mailbox. The outsized
Continue Reading Senator’s Call for Meat Industry’s Answers Exposes Reach of Money in Politics
Saul Sanchez, a 78-year old “green hat” supervisor at the JBS beef plant in Greeley, CO, died from COVID-19 on April 7. He worked at the Greeley beef plant for more than 30 years.
After
Continue Reading Death, illness reports cause industry to get busy with COVID-19 mitigation measures
Cargill has recalled 39 one-pound bags of packaged Wilbur Dark Chocolate-covered Cashews over an undeclared wheat allergen.
The recall was posted Friday on the Food and Drug Administration website as a public service. The recalled
Continue Reading Cargill recalls mislabeled dark chocolate malted balls sold in Pennsylvania
Cargill pulled a variety of animal feeds with excessive levels of aflatoxins from retail shelves from February through April, but the company did not announce the action until this week.
Aflatoxin is a fungal toxin
Continue Reading Cargill recalls feed for excessive aflatoxins; handlers at risk of liver damage
Since Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue named Mindy Brashears Deputy Under Secretary for Food Safety, the former Texas Tech University food safety professor is finding herself in demand.
Perdue named Brashears to the post on
Continue Reading USDA food safety official reports first meetings with people outside federal government
Cargill’s Feed 4 Thought Grilling Survey of 1,000 adults in the United States found consumers “somewhat savvy about food issues” with “room for even more care in this area.”
The outdoor grilling season kicks off
Continue Reading Cargill survey finds grillers are food safety conscious
Despite decades of efforts to control contamination rates, Salmonella has long been the most common illness-causing bacteria in food, and it remains the leading cause of death and hospitalization from foodborne illness in the U.S.
Continue Reading Managing for Salmonella in 2015 Continues to Present Challenges
