The Food and Drug Administration has issued a warning to restaurants, retailers and consumers in Arizona and other states about certain frozen, raw, half-shell oysters potentially contaminated with norovirus.

The oysters, with Lot Code: B250130, were harvested in the Republic of Korea and were distributed to Arizona and possibly among

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New Age International Inc. of Brooklyn, NY is recalling its Daily Veggies Enoki Mushroom because they may be contaminated with Listeria Monocytogenes.

The recalled Enoki mushrooms were distributed nationwide in retail stores.

The contamination was discovered after samples were collected from a store in Baltimore, Maryland and subsequent analysis by

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The FDA is warning consumers not to eat and restaurants and retailers not to sell certain raw, frozen oysters from Korea because of an outbreak of norovirus infections.

The California Department of Health notified the U.S. Food and Drug Administration of the outbreak on April 9. The FDA issued its

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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 Korea (the Republic of) due to Listeria monocytogenes,” was issued to protect public health and

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FSIS Alert

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 ineligible to export Siluriformes products to the United States. A recall was not requested because

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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 the Environment.

FSANZ hopes it will initially include Australia, China, the Republic of Korea, Japan
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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 in the food supply chain in the country.

The aim is to address gaps and
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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 of enoki mushrooms, according to a recall notice posted by the Food and Drug Administration.
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