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The Blue Bell ice cream Listeria outbreak and its fallout

By Guest Contributor on August 1, 2019
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Authors: Angela Spivey, Andrew Phillips, and Alan Pryor 

It may come off as a truism that food safety is the “most central consumer safety and legal compliance issue” facing a food and beverage…
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Year’s largest E. coli outbreak enters litigation phase for victims, businesses

By Dan Flynn on October 12, 2018

The federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention year’s declared this year’s largest E. coli O157: H7 outbreak over on June 28.

And that’s true for the disease phase of the outbreak.

But it’s also…
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Both sides now: Opposing views from across the courtroom

By Shawn K. Stevens on April 17, 2018

Editor’s note: This is part of a series of articles leading up to the 20th annual Food Safety Summit. The event, from May 7-10 at the Donald Stephens Convention Center in suburban Chicago, includes certification …
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Tiger Brands says Listeria outbreak could cost it 1 billion Rand

By News Desk on March 22, 2018
In South Africa, polony products — similar to processed meats such as baloney, hot dogs and sausage in the United States — have been recalled because of Listeria contamination.

The world’s…
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Lytton Interview: The Role of Litigation in Food Safety

By James Andrews on May 25, 2015

Albany Law School professor and author Tim Lytton sat down with Food Safety News at the 2015 Food Safety Summit last month in Baltimore, MD, to discuss the influence of litigation on food safety. Lytton …

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