Coca-Cola has recalled a variety of soft drinks from 10 countries because of chemical contamination.
Coca‑Cola Europacific Partners said the recall was due to high levels of chlorate. Chlorate is a by-product of chlorine disinfectants. The issue came to light during the company’s own checks at a factory in Belgium.
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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 reused over several processing days. According to researchers, there is little data on the potential
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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 with six cases in New South Wales (NSW), eight cases in Victoria, seven in Queensland
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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 ingredient list for consumers to know what they’re buying (although it arrived at the grocery
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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.
In the spring of 2008, state and local public health agencies launched the educational campaign in an effort to prevent a
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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. It begins with what we carefully have determined to be the Top 17 Food Safety
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 a ban on American poultry that began in January. Prime Minister Vladimir Putin had called
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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 U.S. media of an outbreak of Salmonella caused by contaminated eggs, we are assessing the
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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 health as a private matter, my food choices as a private matter, and an expression
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 take some time, Meatingplace reported yesterday.
Processors were notified about the development on a conference
