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Light start for foodborne illness outbreaks in 2020

By Dan Flynn on April 16, 2020

Almost one-third of the year is in the rearview mirror at the federal Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta and only two new multistate outbreaks of foodborne illnesses are on the books.

A dangerous outbreak…
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Another company recalls imported enoki mushrooms for Listeria

By News Desk on March 23, 2020

A California company is recalling fresh mushrooms imported from Korea after state testing returned positive results for Listeria monocytogenes.

The company, Guan’s Mushroom Co. of Commerce, CA, is recalling all cases of its 200-gram/7.05-ounce packages…
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Fatalities reported in Listeria outbreak traced to imported mushrooms

By Coral Beach on March 10, 2020

Four people are dead and at least 36 people across 17 states have been sickened in a three-year Listeria outbreak linked to mushrooms imported from Korea. The virulent strain has hospitalized at least 30 of…
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Korea’s food safety regulations for poultry found equivalent to U.S.

By News Desk on December 30, 2019

Su Jin Kong, the imported food policy director for the Republic of Korea, learned on Dec.16 that his country’s regulation for processed poultry products continues to be equivalent to that of the United States.

The…
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Hawaii Recalls Korean Raw Oysters After Reports of Norovirus Illnesses

By News Desk on December 12, 2015

Raw oysters imported from Korea and sold in bulk to distributors and food establishments in Hawaii are being recalled. The Hawaii State Department of Health (DOH) said the individually quick frozen (IQF) packaged under the…
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South Korea Granted Poultry Inspection Equivalency

By News Desk on March 26, 2014

The U.S. Department of Agriculture has added South Korea to the list of countries eligible to export poultry products to the U.S. after determining that the country’s poultry-inspection system is equivalent to ours. “Under this…
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Letter From the Editor: Food as Medicine

By Dan Flynn on December 8, 2013

Writing this week from Seoul, South Korea, where I’ve been the guest of the Korea National Food Cluster known as Foodpolis, the government-sponsored food industrial complex being built east of Iksan. My visit to South…
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Chicken of the Sea Recalls Korean Oysters

By News Desk on May 29, 2012

Chicken of the Sea Internationalof San Diego, CA is recalling several product codes of oysters imported from Korea and sold under the Chicken of the Sea, Pacific Pearl and Ace of Diamonds brands.

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Ban on Korean Shellfish Includes Canned Shellfish

By News Desk on May 26, 2012

The Food and Drug Administration late Friday clarified an earlier warning that all oysters, clams, mussels and scallops from Korea should be considered adulterated and removed from the market, and said that ban includes canned…
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FDA Explains Ban on Korean Shellfish

By Mary Rothschild on May 19, 2012

Korean shellfish imports have been blocked by the U.S. since May 1 because Korean waters may have been polluted with human fecal waste, the U.S. Food and Drug Admnistration (FDA) said on Friday. Oysters, clams, mussels and

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FDA Halts Shellfish Imports from Korea

By News Desk on May 12, 2012

The Food and Drug Administration has stopped the shipment of fresh and frozen oysters, clams, mussels and scallops from Korea to the U.S. because many of these molluscan shellfish may be contaminated, according to a

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