The Food and Drug Administration announced today that it will be collecting and testing samples of lettuce grown in California’s Salinas Valley from local commercial coolers from May through November 2021.
The agency will test
Continue Reading New testing program seeks to shed light on leafy greens outbreaks
Tim York is “passionately focused on food safety,” according to his biography from the California Leafy Green Marketing Agreement (LGMA). And, maybe that’s true.
For anyone passionate about food safety, it inevitably means preaching
Continue Reading LGMA’s York wants to bring pre-harvest testing to leafy greens in California
Citing numerous E. coli O157:H7 outbreaks linked to leafy greens, the FDA is telling the industry that it’s past time for a head-in-the-sand view of cattle operations uphill from lettuce fields.
In a new report,
Continue Reading FDA continues fight against animal contamination of leafy greens
The chaos that the COVID-19 pandemic inflicted on the manufacturing sector and those who keep it running underscores the need to keep the supply chain operating effectively and rapidly.
In the early weeks of
Continue Reading From COVID to compliance, technology has answers to troubling questions
This year’s Dirty Dozen list from the Environmental Working Group opens with a statement about COVID-19 and food safety, encouraging consumers to continue to eat fresh fruits and vegetables during the pandemic.
Officials with the
Continue Reading Some leafy greens added to Dirty Dozen, strawberries still at top of the EWG’s list
The CDC has declared a deadly E. coli O157:H7 outbreak over, but the cause remains a mystery.
The outbreak, which began in mid-December 2020, continued to make people sick through at least Jan. 12 this
Continue Reading CDC closes outbreak investigation; source of E. coli remains unknown
Researchers seeking to develop better food safety testing for fresh produce, with a particular focus on lettuce, have received a boost in the form of a USDA grant.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s National Institute
Continue Reading Scientists working on better testing for leafy greens, other fresh produce
The table below shows outbreak investigations being managed by FDA’s CORE Response Teams. The investigations are in a variety of stages. Some outbreaks have limited information with investigations ongoing, others may be near completion.
Continue Reading FDA outlines foodborne outbreak investigations in weekly table
The FDA is launching a new, temporary testing program for the romaine lettuce from commercial coolers in the Yuma, AZ, growing region. Romaine from the area has been linked to several foodborne illness outbreaks in
Continue Reading Feds plan to begin testing research program with romaine lettuce in Arizona
Cattle feces from a lot uphill from produce growing fields were contaminated with E. coli that matches the strain from outbreaks in the falls of 2019 and 2020 that were linked to leafy greens.
Federal
Continue Reading FDA tests show cattle lot implicated in leafy greens E. coli outbreak
Forty confirmed cases of E. coli O157:H7 sent 20 people to hospitals in 19 states in an outbreak linked to leafy greens. But the specific type or brand remains unknown and the outbreak is over,
Continue Reading E coli O157:H7 outbreak likely caused by leafy greens of unknown origin is over
