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Protect food and water during hurricanes, floods and other storms

Editor’s Note: Hurricane Dorian is a slow-moving Category 5 storm with tremendous sustained surface winds of 185 mph with gusts reaching 220 mph, according to the National Hurricane Center.

By News Desk

/ 2 Sep 2019

Protect food and water during hurricanes, floods and other storms

Food safety advice for those in the hurricane’s path

Editor’s Note: Hurricane Dorian strengthened to a 140-mph, Category 4 “major” hurricane Saturday with landfall expected along Florda’s east coast from Monday into Tuesday. The U.S. Department

By News Desk

/ 31 Aug 2019

Food safety advice for those in the hurricane’s path

No summer slow down for those with agendas for USDA food safety leaders

Business establishments it regulates, foreign trade partners, and academic and educational organizations were among those outside the federal government who met with USDA’s food safety executives so far this

By Dan Flynn

/ 29 Aug 2019

No summer slow down for those with agendas for USDA food safety leaders

Israel issues adulterated alcohol warning following deaths

At least 13 people have died in Israel since the start of 2018 because of methanol poisoning from alcohol, according to the country’s Ministry of Health. The agency reported

By News Desk

/ 29 Aug 2019

Israel issues adulterated alcohol warning following deaths

FDA shoots one across the bow of papaya industry; puts entire food industry on notice

Papayas got the most ink from the FDA, but an announcement about stepped up food safety measures for the fruit is actually an example of how the agency is pressing

By Coral Beach

/ 27 Aug 2019

FDA shoots one across the bow of papaya industry; puts entire food industry on notice

International travelers get food safety and other advice in CDC Yellow Book 2020

Food and water safety precautions play a prominent role in the “CDC Yellow Book 2020.” The Yellow Book, published every other year for half a century is the world travelers’

By News Desk

/ 27 Aug 2019

International travelers get food safety and other advice in CDC Yellow Book 2020

Faces of Food Safety: Meet Nicole Suggs of FSIS

Contributed Editor’s note: This is a recent installment in a series of employee profiles published by the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety Inspection Service, republished here

By U.S. Department of Agriculture

/ 26 Aug 2019

Faces of Food Safety: Meet Nicole Suggs of FSIS

Executive could get five years in federal prison for faking E. coli test documents

Federal prison is likely in the future for another food industry executive. Memet Beqiri, the owner of Connecticutt’s New England Meat Packing LLC in Staford Springs, will be sentenced

By Dan Flynn

/ 23 Aug 2019

Executive could get five years in federal prison for faking E. coli test documents

Up to 69 Shiga toxin-producing illnesses acquired from popular Minneapolis swimming beach

Minnesota’s Lake Nokomis is to blame for more illnesses that might be caused by Shiga toxin-producing E. coli, which is frequently a foodborne pathogen E. coli is a type

By News Desk

/ 22 Aug 2019

Up to 69 Shiga toxin-producing illnesses acquired from popular Minneapolis swimming beach

Import alerts include seafood, dyes, agricultural pesticides on raw food

The Food and Drug Administration uses import alerts to enforce U.S. food safety regulations for food from foreign countries. The agency updates and modifies the alerts as needed. Recent

By News Desk

/ 22 Aug 2019

Import alerts include seafood, dyes, agricultural pesticides on raw food

Research shows Campylobacter, E. coli found at many Dutch cattle farms

Campylobacter was found at most beef cattle farms and a quarter of them had Shiga toxin-producing E. coli, according to a Dutch study. The National Institute for Public Health and

By Joe Whitworth

/ 22 Aug 2019

Research shows Campylobacter, E. coli found at many Dutch cattle farms

Publisher’s Platform: FSIS knows your chicken is tainted, says it’s OK to sell, but tells you not to wash it

By warning you not to wash chicken (or other poultry), FSIS correctly recognizes the risk of cross-contamination in your kitchen and the risk that it poses to you and your

By Bill Marler

/ 21 Aug 2019

Publisher’s Platform: FSIS knows your chicken is tainted, says it’s OK to sell, but tells you not to wash it

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Protect food and water during hurricanes, floods and other storms

Food safety advice for those in the hurricane’s path

No summer slow down for those with agendas for USDA food safety leaders

Israel issues adulterated alcohol warning following deaths

FDA shoots one across the bow of papaya industry; puts entire food industry on notice

International travelers get food safety and other advice in CDC Yellow Book 2020

Faces of Food Safety: Meet Nicole Suggs of FSIS

Executive could get five years in federal prison for faking E. coli test documents

Up to 69 Shiga toxin-producing illnesses acquired from popular Minneapolis swimming beach

Import alerts include seafood, dyes, agricultural pesticides on raw food

Research shows Campylobacter, E. coli found at many Dutch cattle farms

Publisher’s Platform: FSIS knows your chicken is tainted, says it’s OK to sell, but tells you not to wash it