The USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Service has issued a public health alert for various meat and poultry products that were illegally imported from the Republic of the Union of Myanmar. FSIS is continuing to investigate how these products entered the country.
The following products are subject to the public health
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Owners of meat and poultry facilities around the country tell the Environmental Protection Agency that they will close their businesses before complying with a nearly year-old regulation requiring them to clean up their wastewater discharges.
The EPA proposed the regulation in December 2023, which would apply to wastewater discharges from
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The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) is issuing a public health alert for various meat and poultry products that were illegally imported from the Republic of the Union of Myanmar.
Myanmar is a country ineligible to export meat and poultry products to the United States.
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Two sampling projects have found issues with meat substitution and undeclared allergens despite an overall high level of compliance.
Findings come from targeted surveillance sampling of products in England, Wales, and Northern Ireland for the Food Standards Agency (FSA).
In 2020, the program focused on commodities and hazards where intelligence
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A business in New Zealand has been fined for the illegal sale of home-kill meat through butcher shops.
Canterbury Homekill Services Limited (CHK) and owners Noel Womersley and Halena Hitchcock were sentenced to multiple charges under the Animal Products Act in Christchurch District Court.
The company and its owners were
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Authorities in Finland have uncovered large quantities of unrefrigerated meat being brought into the country without any documentation.
Finnish Customs (Tulli) said the case involves evading taxes and food safety. The issue was found during Customs’ control in the West Harbor of Helsinki in spring 2022.
A preliminary investigation is
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Multidrug-resistant E. coli has been found in supermarket meat samples tested in a Spanish study.
Researchers said findings show consumers may be exposed to bacteria capable of causing severe infections through beef and pork. A full paper is not yet available but initial results were presented at the European Congress of Clinical Microbiology
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Most food companies feel leaving the European Union has affected operations while many said COVID-19 didn’t impact their ability to meet regulatory requirements, according to a survey.
The poll, commissioned by the Food Standards Agency (FSA), included 400 businesses in England, Wales, and Northern Ireland, plus interviews with 60 companies.
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Argentinian officials have confirmed leptospirosis and Salmonella in an outbreak that has killed two people.
Authorities in Buenos Aires reported that four adults were hospitalized in the city of Berazategui in early 2023. Salmonella and Shigella were detected in the fatal cases and in one patient it was Salmonella Typhimurium.
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Factors affecting the safety of aged meat have been assessed in a European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) opinion.
The impact of dry-aging of beef and wet-aging of beef, pork, and lamb on microbiological hazards and spoilage bacteria was examined.
Wet aging is used for meat stored and refrigerated in a
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