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Watchdogs on patrol; seeking safer poultry through preventive controls

By Coral Beach on May 22, 2020

Two consumer groups want to see government and industry do something instead of nothing when it comes to keeping certain bacteria out of Americans’ diets via contaminated poultry.

The groups’ leaders say they don’t want…
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Trump’s order to keep meat plants open gives big business a loophole

By Center for Science in the Public Interest on April 30, 2020
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President Trump’s executive order keeping meat plants open during the COVID-19 pandemic is a further threat to the health of the women and men who produce our food. The order would gut any incentive…
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CDC warns against papayas from Mexico amidst new outbreak; CSPI says FDA should step up enforcement

By Coral Beach on June 28, 2019

More than 60 people are confirmed sick with Salmonella infections in a multistate outbreak linked to fresh papayas from Mexico, according to a public alert issued this afternoon.

Federal officials are advising that consumers in…
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Scientists urge surgeon general to issue warning about unwashed poppy seeds

By Coral Beach on June 4, 2019

In a letter to the country’s top medical official, the Center for Science in the Public Interest asked U.S. Surgeon General Jerome Adams to issue an advisory warning people of the dangers of contaminated, unwashed…
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FDA refuses to reconsider decision on hazardous chemical in food packaging

By Guest Contributor on April 24, 2019
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Today, the FDA doubled-down on its flawed 2005 and 2017 decisions to allow the hazardous chemical perchlorate to be added to dry food packaging. The FDA denied a request for a public hearing submitted…
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ALERT: U.S. representative, advocates say food safety programs dangerously disrupted

By Coral Beach on January 17, 2019

ALERT: A USDA spokesperson told Food Safety News the agency is not staffing its phones dedicated to consumer complaints about meat, poultry and processed egg products during the partial government shutdown. The askkaren.gov service is …
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USDA won’t name turkey plants, despite 164 illnesses and 1 death

By Coral Beach on November 15, 2018

The public doesn’t need to know which turkey plants have been found to be contaminated with a deadly strain of Salmonella that has infected people in 35 states, federal officials said yesterday in a strongly…
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FDA considers whether sesame should be subject to allergen labeling law

By Dan Flynn on October 31, 2018

Undeclared allergens have been driving recent increases in food recalls, which some say contributes to the trend of consumers ignoring recall notices. A year ago, a national recall consultant found millennials are the “least compliant…
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Thorny details down on the farm still stalling FDA enforcement

By Dan Flynn on January 9, 2018

In the seven years since the Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA) became law, the question has always been the same. How is the Food and Drug Administration going to do down on the farm?

FDA…
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Briefly: Whoa, chicken — Summit discounts — Bakers fined

By Kelsey M. Mackin on December 15, 2017

Every hour of every day people around the world are living with and working to resolve food safety issues. Here is a sampling of current headlines for your consumption, brought to you today with the…
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Antibiotic disclosure — another first for San Francisco?

By Coral Beach on October 2, 2017

Once again, San Francisco is poised to become the first city in the nation to take a legislative stand on a controversial topic. Its Board of Supervisors is set to vote tomorrow on an ordinance…
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