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A look at over 10 years of Smucker’s Kentucky facility’s inspections

By Jonan Pilet on August 1, 2022

A decade of inspections at J.M. Smucker Company’s production facility in Lexington, KY, leaves questions about how Salmonella found its way into products and spread to consumers.

This May, the outbreak strain of Salmonella Senftenberg…

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Abbott Nutrition: The gathering storm

By Phyllis Entis on April 16, 2022

– CONTRIBUTED ANALYSIS –

Editor’s note: This column was originally published in eFoodAlert and is republished here with the author’s permission.

Between Sept. 1, 2019, and Sept. 20, 2021, Abbott Nutrition received 17 consumer complaints…

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Federal subpoena follows inspections after warning and recall at ‘dollar stores’

By Dan Flynn on March 17, 2022

The Dollar General Corporation’s “dollar stores” are sometimes used by researchers as a poverty indicator and this year a corner of those  more than 18,000 locations in the continental United States were called out for…
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Organizations tell FDA they want it to continue with inspection mandate

By Guest Contributor on June 11, 2021

Editor’s note: Following is a letter signed by a coalition of organizations and sent to Janet Woodcock, M.D., FDA Acting Commissioner of Food and Drugs.

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Dear Dr. Woodcock,

The undersigned organizations, representing the food…
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Resilience in food safety for 2021: Anticipating government oversight

By Jonan Pilet on February 1, 2021
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Editor’s note: In part four of this four-part series with SafetyChain Software, Food Safety News is exploring how food firms can become resilient in the face of 2021’s new challenges, and how resilience …
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Beach Beat: FDA posts less than half the number of food recalls during pandemic

By Coral Beach on May 8, 2020
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A few weeks ago many government agencies announced they would be following public health recommendations and have non-essential employees stay home because of the coronavirus pandemic. Among the staff activities and services suspended by…
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Caito Foods sanitation problems extend back to at least 2016

By Phyllis Entis on April 26, 2019

The Food and Drug Administration found multiple sanitation issues during a 2016 inspection of the Caito Foods fresh produce facility that prepared pre-cut melon products currently implicated in a Salmonella outbreak.

According to the Indianapolis…
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Report details most common violations at FDA-regulated food facilities

By Dan Flynn on January 4, 2019

Food standard violations at 874 facilities around the country in FY 2018 fell into one of five categories, according to a company that helps other businesses with FDA compliance. Registrar Corp. says the latest round…
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Reality of our world: Money trumps altruism in the quest for safer poultry

By Carl Custer on November 13, 2018
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Editor’s note: This is the second of a two-part opinion piece. To read part one, please click here.


In the previous article, I wrote about the decades-old public health problem of poultry-borne salmonellosis.
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‘Millions’ of roaches plagued maker of Pedigree, IAMS, Cesar, other pet foods

By Phyllis Entis on June 7, 2018

The Mars Petcare U.S. Inc. low-acid canned pet food production facility in Columbus, OH, was crawling with an infestation of German cockroaches between October 2016 and July 2017. Mars markets wet dog and cat foods…
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