More than 10 years after the first reports of pet and people illnesses linked to jerky treats from China, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration is no closer to finding the root cause of the
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EU health chief urges international food safety cooperation
Europe is committed to working with China to ensure the highest standards of food safety and quality, according to the EU health commissioner.
Vytenis Andriukaitis made the comments at the Ecological Agriculture and Food Safety
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Study looks at rate of Bacillus cereus in infant formula in China
Researchers have investigated the prevalence of Bacillus cereus in infant formula sold in China.
No legal microbiological criteria for the pathogen in powdered infant formula (PIF) and powdered follow-up formula (PFUF) exists in the country.
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Fipronil and Salmonella lead notifications in RASFF report
Fipronil in eggs and Salmonella in poultry meat from Brazil dominated information exchanges between European countries in 2017, according to the annual Rapid Alert System for Food and Feed (RASFF) report.
A total of 3,832
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Unauthorized irradiation leads to recall in Malta
A brand of ginger bags has been recalled in Malta due to the use of irradiation in an unauthorized facility.
Natural Ginger bags in 80-gram packages with brand name “Gold kili” and durability date of
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Three countries with 30 foreign catfish producers want access to U.S. market
The federal government is taking comments for 30 days about whether China, Vietnam and Thailand should be listed in the Code of Federal Regulations (CFR) as eligible to export Siluriformes fish to the United States.
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Rat lungworm cases linked to eating centipedes; host snails increasing in US
A foodborne parasite detected in two patients in a Chinese hospital has been traced to consumption of raw wild centipedes, according to a case report by the American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene.
Researchers
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Two of three new poultry processors in Chinese provinces never audited
Just a year ago, the first poultry products processed in China from raw chicken raised and slaughtered in Chile entered the United States — a mere 110 pounds of cooked breaded chicken. But a congressional
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Chinese poultry isn’t safe, Rep. DeLauro tells Secretary Perdue
Congresswoman Rosa DeLauro, who chairs the Congressional Food Safety Caucus, has expressed her opposition to any agreement to allow imports of Chinese-raised poultry into the United States.
The Connecticut Democrat, who is also a senior
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Frozen raspberry problems continued in 2017 for Canada, U.S.
Individually Quick Frozen raspberries imported from China were the source of 615 confirmed cases of Norovirus in Quebec between March and July of this year, and of 15 cases in Minnesota in August of 2016.
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OIG says USDA reviews of exporting countries are inadequate
“A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines,” said early-American philosopher and essayist Ralph Waldo Emerson.
But in the Office of the Inspector General (OIG) at
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