Details about the recalls by national retailers and multiple manufacturers over common ingredients remain murky but McCain Foods USA Inc. is now recalling all products from its Colton, CA facility 60 miles east of Los
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The key role farm workers play in produce safety
MOUNT VERNON, WA — They’re out there on the front lines waging a battle against dangerous pathogens that can contaminate your food and make you sick or even kill you. Yet most people don’t even
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Civil action asks judge to order FDA to name ‘high risk’ foods as mandated
Two San Francisco Bay area activist organizations that previously pressured the FDA about keeping the Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA) rulemaking on a schedule are again pushing for the agency to meet the Act’s mandates.
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Letter from The Editor: Is your credibility on the rise or falling off the charts?
Opinion
The Food and Drug Administration and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention are not known for changing up their relationships with the news media. That’s not necessarily a bad thing as the information
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Flooding from Hurricane Michael creates food safety issues across South
Strong winds and heavy rain continue to wreak havoc across parts of the South today as Hurricane Michael meanders out of Georgia and heads up the mid-Atlantic Coast.
The storm posted historic numbers when it
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Pistachio recall includes 2 tons of nuts sold several states; Salmonella found
Bazzinil LLC is recalling 4,000 pounds of pistachios after internal testing turned up positive results for Salmonella. The Allentown, PA, company has stopped production and distribution of several specific products to investigate the source of
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U.S. representative wants to know what FDA is doing to ensure egg safety
A day after the CDC reported two dozen more people have been confirmed with Salmonella infections traced to eggs, a member of Congress asked the head of the Food and Drug Administration to explain what
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FDA enforcement delay provides time to educate produce growers on safety
Opinion
Editor’s note: The FDA’s Commissioner Scott Gottlieb and Deputy Commissioner for Foods and Veterinary Medicine Stephen Ostroff combined efforts for this column.
We know how important it is to get produce safety right. Taking
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CDC, FDA urge public to look for Gravel Ridge eggs; more states report illnesses
During the past three weeks public health officers confirmed another two dozen people with Salmonella Enteritidis infections in an outbreak traced to cage-free eggs from Gravel Ridge Farms.
Federal and state officials continue to express
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FDA says pesticide/herbicide levels OK in most food; glyphosate within legal limits
A special testing program showed more than 60 percent of corn and soybeans sampled by the Food and Drug Administration were positive for glyphosate and glufosinate residues in FY 2016, but none of the samples
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That Venezuela Vibrio outbreak is over, but CDC still advises caution
Fresh crab meat imported from the failed state of Venezuela caused 26 consumers in eight U.S. jurisdictions to suffer from Vibrio parahaemolyticus infections between April 1 and July 19 of this year, but the outbreaks
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