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FDA issues country-wide import alert for enoki mushrooms from the Republic of Korea

By News Desk on July 22, 2022

The FDA has announced that its Import Divisions may detain without physical examination importations of enoki mushrooms from the Republic of Korea (ROK). 

This country-wide import alert, “Detention Without Physical Examination of Enoki Mushrooms from…

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FSIS Issues Public Health Alert for Ineligible Siluriformes Products Imported from Korea

By News Desk on June 24, 2022

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USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) has issued a public health alert for Siluriformes products imported by Grand BK Corporation, a Carlstadt, N.J. firm.

The products were imported from Korea, a country…

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FSANZ gets grant for food safety forum; consults on produce rules

By News Desk on November 24, 2021

Food Standards Australia New Zealand (FSANZ) has been given a grant to create an international food safety forum.

The almost AU $500,000 (U.S. $363,000) award was announced by the Australian Department of Agriculture, Water and…
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Nigeria tries to boost food safety; FAO and Korea tackle AMR

By News Desk on August 3, 2021

Nigeria is attempting to improve food safety with a range of training materials.

The Federal Ministry of Health launched a unified food safety training manual for capacity building of food vendors, handlers, manufacturers and personnel…
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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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