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Researchers look at sanitizer efficacy in apple packing line dump tanks

By News Desk on February 3, 2022

A new research project is taking a look at the efficacy of sanitizers used in apple processing dump tanks.

During processing, apples are soaked in dump tank and flume water systems. The water is commonly …
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Weather played role in deadly Australian Listeria melon outbreak

By Joe Whitworth on October 13, 2018

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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Processing Aids for Fresh Produce: Safety Buffers Between Farm and Table

By Gretchen Goetz on June 24, 2013

Nutrition labels on items in the produce section tend to be short, if not absent altogether. While cereals, soups and sauces come with long lists of ingredients on their packaging, an apple doesn’t need an…
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Utah Healthy Swimming Campaign Seems to Have Worked

By Gretchen Goetz on May 21, 2012

In the wake of a 2007 Cryptosporidium outbreak linked to recreational swimming waters in Utah, a statewide educational push seems to have increased residents’ knowledge about healthy swimming practices.

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In the spring of 2008, state…

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Top Food Safety Stories of 2010: No. 17

By Dan Flynn on December 23, 2010

Welcome to the end.  Beginning today, we are going to begin putting the year 2010 into a box so we can put it on a shelf someplace.

But first, we have a lot to do.

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Uncertain Future for U.S. Poultry in Russia

By Helena Bottemiller on November 10, 2010

Although U.S. poultry was only recently allowed back in Russia, it seems American chicken is still being eased out.

After a meeting between presidents Barack Obama and Dmitry Medvedev in late June, Russia agreed to lift…

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Russian Poultry Dispute Complicated by Egg Fiasco

By Helena Bottemiller on September 1, 2010

The headline-grabbing recall of over half a billion eggs for Salmonella contamination in the U.S. is complicating the ongoing dispute with Russia over the acceptance of U.S. poultry products.

“In light of reports in the…

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Why Public Health Matters

By Marion Nestle on August 12, 2010

I received a couple of requests to define “public health” last week from readers [of Food Politics] Anthro and MA.  As MA puts it,

“Maybe…we need a definition of “public health.”  I view my…

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U.S. Poultry Given OK for Russian Export

By Helena Bottemiller on July 22, 2010

U.S. poultry processors have been given the green light from federal officials to begin shipping poultry to Russia, after a six month ban, but conversion to antimicrobial treatments that are acceptable to the country may…

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Berry Lovers Benefit from Food Safety Scrutiny

By Cookson Beecher on July 22, 2010

It’s berry season.  Time for some chlorine.  

No, we’re not talking about chlorine as in sunglasses and swimming pools but rather chlorine as in berry farmers and irrigation water.

And while the juxtaposition of…

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