New Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) guidance goes beyond poultry barns to cover all animal slaughtering and processing facilities.
Previous OSHA guidance only applied to poultry establishments. The USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) is in poultry plants but isn’t charged with the safety of poultry employees. That’s
Continue Reading OSHA puts meat and poultry industries under its wing to protect all employees
Mr. Wok Foods Inc .in Las Vegas late Monday recalled approximately 200,000 pounds of meat and poultry products due to misbranding and undeclared allergens, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS).
The products may contain milk, wheat, soy, peanuts, or oysters, which are known
When Saul Sanchez, a 78-year old “green hat” supervisor at the JBS beef plant in Greeley, CO, died from COVID-19 this past April 7, nobody was thinking he might be the first of nearly 100 others in the industry to succumb to the virus. Sanchez worked at the Greeley
Continue Reading Letter from the Editor: Infections and deaths from COVID-19 in meat, poultry industries
When they have not sold enough spot advertising, broadcasters air public service announcements that these days are all about how we are “in this together.”
But up and down the meat industry, the only togetherness that seems to exists is that everybody wants to slap down somebody else. It follows
Continue Reading Mood turns sour as meat and poultry industry tries to keep production up with demand
Lithuanian authorities have stopped the supply of 75 tons of what they described as “unsafe” poultry meat in the first quarter of 2020.
The State Food and Veterinary Service (VMVT) performed more than 800 targeted inspections of imported poultry meat in the quarter. Most of these were related to the
Continue Reading Lithuanian officials seize 75 tons of ‘unsafe’ poultry meat
Chicken meat from Brazil is being investigated as the source of Salmonella illnesses in the Netherlands.
Between the end of 2019 and mid-February 2020, the National Institute for Public Health and the Environment (RIVM) identified a cluster of six Salmonella Virchow infections distributed across the country using whole genome sequencing
Continue Reading Dutch Salmonella illnesses linked to Brazilian poultry
Campylobacter, Yersinia, E. coli and Listeria infections all went up while Salmonella declined, according to the 2018 report on foodborne disease in New Zealand.
Campylobacter remained the top foodborne pathogen. The country has a performance target to reduce cases of foodborne campylobacteriosis by 10 percent from 88.4 to 79.6 per
Continue Reading Campylobacter and E. coli infections climb in New Zealand; raw milk cited
There’s no direct link yet between Escherichia coli in meat and poultry and urinary tract infections, but three of six the most common E. coli genotypes in humans were found in retail meat samples.
Attendees of the annual IDWeek in San Diego, sponsored by the Infectious Diseases Society of America
Continue Reading Patients’ urine and meat samples compared for shared E. coli
Lawmakers in the Golden Gate City want to close the door on unnecessary antibiotic use in livestock, so they’ve unanimously OK’d a local ordinance requiring large retailers to annually report on antibiotics used by their meat and poultry suppliers.
The local law is the first of its kind in the
Continue Reading San Francisco grocers subject to new meat/poultry reporting
Once again, San Francisco is poised to become the first city in the nation to take a legislative stand on a controversial topic. Its Board of Supervisors is set to vote tomorrow on an ordinance to require disclosure about the use of antibiotics by meat and poultry producers.
The proposed
Continue Reading Antibiotic disclosure — another first for San Francisco?
