Dr. Yolanda Thomspon was the USDA inspector on duty for the Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) at the Tyson Fresh Meats Inc. plant in Storm Lake, IA, on March 26, 2018.
Her actions that
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Lack of inspection prompts recall of yellow walking fish, aka catfish
A California company today recalled more than 36,000 pounds of yellow walking fish imported from Vietnam because it wasn’t inspected as required by federal law.
Crab House Trading Corp. of Los Angeles, CA, distributed the
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Ag committee again clears way for Senate to confirm Brashears for USDA
The nomination of Mindy Brashears, currently deputy undersecretary for food safety, to be the USDA’s Under Secretary for Food Safety was reported favorably Tuesday out of the Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry.
The
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Anatomy of a food recall: The background and the bottom line
Contributed
Editor’s note: This article was published by the Penn State Extension Service and is reprinted here with permission.
It seems we hear about food recalls more frequently. To understand what is happening let’s look
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Taylor Farms posts another recall for salad products with undeclared allergens
A Texas subsidiary of California’s Taylor Farms is recalling more than a half ton of H.E.B. brand salads because they do not comply with federal law requiring that seafood, a known allergen, be declared on
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E. coli count nears 200 as outbreak hits 10 states; ground beef implicated
As of today, another 19 patients have been added to the toll in an E. coli outbreak traced to ground beef, bringing the total number of people with laboratory-confirmed infections to almost 200.
First announced
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Letter From the Editor: The four horsemen speak at Town Hall
Opinion
There are at least two ways to generate a crowd at a food safety conference. You can do a panel of opponents where individuals who’ve been on opposite sides speak from the same podium.
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There’s good call for optimism, but grave reasons for concern remain
The pattern is well established. Bad things happen, and then good things happen as a result.
But, one man who is uniquely positioned to peer into the future with an informed eye doesn’t think the
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Undeclared soy necessitates recall of frozen, ready-to-eat meatballs
A California company is recalling about 1,600 pounds of ready-to-eat chicken meatballs because they contain a soy ingredient that is not declared on the label, which is a violation of federal law.
Santa Fe Importers
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113,424 pounds of raw ground beef recalled after testing positive for E. coli O103
- 156 people infected with the outbreak strain of E. coli O103 have been reported from 10 states – Minnesota, Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, Kentucky, Tennessee, Virginia, Mississippi, Georgia and Florida.
- After, unopened, intact ground beef collected
Outbreak linked to ground beef spreads to more states; traceback inconclusive
Federal officials report the number of confirmed cases of E. coli O103 infections, suspected to be linked to ground beef, have more than doubled since the outbreak was initially reported.
Since April 5 when the
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