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Exemptions added to state public disclosure act to get FDA to resume sharing information

By Dan Flynn on July 16, 2019

The Washington State Department of Agriculture is about to find out if appeasement works with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.

In 2018 the FDA stopped sharing nonpublic information with the state department (WSDA), and…
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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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Lax testing practices resulted in vitamin D overdoses in Hill’s and Sunshine Mills pet food

By Phyllis Entis on April 2, 2019

Toxic levels of vitamin D in Hill’s Pet Nutrition (Hill’s) canned pet foods and Sunshine Mills (Sunshine) dry pet foods could have been prevented, had both companies followed their own food safety plans.

According to…
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Consumers’ cases against Gravy Train maker consolidated

By Phyllis Entis on May 8, 2018

A class action lawsuit was filed May 1 in Northern California against Big Heart Pet Brands Inc. on behalf of consumers and businesses who bought pentobarbital-contaminated dog food manufactured by the company.

Big Heart is…
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Chipotle stockholders’ suit says company, CDC kept secrets

By Coral Beach on November 3, 2017

Stockholders’ attorneys say Chipotle Mexican Grill and federal officials knew about multiple foodborne illness outbreaks linked to the restaurant chain in 2014-15, but did not inform the public.

Using Freedom of Information Act requests, the…
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FDA faces appeal for failing to reveal retailers in papaya outbreak

By Dan Flynn on September 8, 2017

The Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI) wants the Food and Drug Administration to release the names and locations of supermarkets and other retailers who sold papayas now subject to a nationwide recall…
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One more look at lessons unlearned in raw burger outbreak

By Dan Flynn on March 7, 2017

rare.hamburgerBefore the federal Centers for Diseases Control and Prevention went public with the first announcement of a multistate outbreak of E. coli O157:H7, the boss let everyone working on foodborne diseases know there was one…
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Farmers and ranchers get their privacy back

By Dan Flynn on September 27, 2016

Privacy was the winner in a Court of Appeals case a few days ago in the 8th U.S. Circuit with a unanimous ruling against the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. intersection of public private illustrationA three-judge panel ruled against EPA’s…
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Appeals Court Hears Arguments Tomorrow on Blocked Chicken Info

By Dan Flynn on December 8, 2015

When it comes to food safety transparency, how much company information can you pry out of government agencies by using the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA)? On Wednesday, a panel of judges from the U.S.
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FSIS Emails Reveal ‘Snapshot’ of Foster Farms Investigation

By Lydia Zuraw on June 16, 2015

Internal emails from the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) made public earlier this month tell some of the story behind the agency’s attempt to recall Foster Farms products linked to…
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