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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

States report some grim hepatitis A numbers to CDC, including 236 deaths

The federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in Atlanta has tracked state outbreaks of Hepatitis A for the last three years, and it is not getting any prettier.

By Dan Flynn

/ 21 Aug 2019

States report some grim hepatitis A numbers to CDC, including 236 deaths

Criminal convictions top FSIS Quarterly Enforcement Report

The USDA’s quarterly report of enforcement activities by the Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) is topped off by the criminal conviction of Antillio Graniello. The U.S. District

By Dan Flynn

/ 21 Aug 2019

Criminal convictions top FSIS Quarterly Enforcement Report

FDA finds violations at airline caterer, seafood firm, tahini importer

The Food and Drug Administration recently sent warning letters to a tahini importer in Florida in relation to an outbreak, and a seafood processor and airline caterer in California, because

By News Desk

/ 21 Aug 2019

FDA finds violations at airline caterer, seafood firm, tahini importer

Norway finds most imported seafood to be compliant

Microorganisms and parasites were only rarely detected in seafood products imported to Norway from third countries in 2018, according to a new report. The document summarizes an ongoing monitoring program

By Joe Whitworth

/ 20 Aug 2019

Norway finds most imported seafood to be compliant

USDA audits world’s third smallest country for pork exports

Two-way trade between the United States and the micro-state of San Marino is a mere $7 million a year. And a scant amount of that involves any food or agricultural

By Dan Flynn

/ 19 Aug 2019

USDA audits world’s third smallest country for pork exports

France’s food safety system found equivalent to USA for veal, pork and ready-to-eat meats

USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Service released a new on-site equivalence verification audit for France. It did not find any deficiencies that represented an immediate threat to public health.

By News Desk

/ 19 Aug 2019

France’s food safety system found equivalent to USA for veal, pork and ready-to-eat meats

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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

States report some grim hepatitis A numbers to CDC, including 236 deaths

Criminal convictions top FSIS Quarterly Enforcement Report

FDA finds violations at airline caterer, seafood firm, tahini importer

Norway finds most imported seafood to be compliant

USDA audits world’s third smallest country for pork exports

France’s food safety system found equivalent to USA for veal, pork and ready-to-eat meats