The Food and Drug Administration uses import alerts to enforce U.S. food safety regulations for food from foreign countries. The agency updates and modifies the alerts as needed.
Recent modifications to FDA’s import alerts, as posted by the agency, are listed below.
Use the chart below to view import alerts.
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An outbreak of Salmonella Typhimurium infections traced to imported cucumbers has ended with 113 patients confirmed.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported that the first outbreak patients developed symptoms in mid-October. The most recent person became ill on Dec. 7. The Food and Drug Administration first reported the
Continue Reading CDC declares Salmonella outbreak over; more than 100 sickened by cucumbers
The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) is issuing a public health alert for beef tallow products that were illegally imported from Mexico and are ineligible for entry into the United States.
The products were not certified for export to the U.S. by the government of
Continue Reading USDA issues public health alert for illegal beef tallow imports from Mexico
The Food and Drug Administration uses import alerts to enforce U.S. food safety regulations for food from foreign countries. The agency updates and modifies the alerts as needed.
Recent modifications to FDA’s import alerts, as posted by the agency, are listed below.
Use the chart below to view import alerts.
Continue Reading FDA steps up enforcement on cheese from France, cantaloupes from Mexico and more
The Food and Drug Administration uses import alerts to enforce U.S. food safety regulations for food from foreign countries. The agency updates and modifies the alerts as needed.
Recent modifications to FDA’s import alerts, as posted by the agency, are listed below.
Use the chart below to view import alerts.
Continue Reading FDA updates food import alerts for unapproved drugs, heavy metals and more
In just the past few days, it seems as if the world has become serious about H5N1 influenza, otherwise known as bird flu. There’s even informed speculation by some qualified scientists that human-to-human transmission is likely already occurring.
Food safety and public health are not yet big concerns. Raw milk
Continue Reading Concern about Bird flu is becoming serious
Researchers have analyzed travel-associated infections in people returning to the United States from abroad.
From 2017 to 2020, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention investigated 41 multistate outbreaks of non-typhoidal Salmonella and Shiga toxin-producing E. coli (STEC) linked to international travel.
In the same time frame, CDC handled 470
Continue Reading Mexico often linked to U.S. travel-associated outbreaks
Canadian officials have posted their final update on a Salmonella outbreak traced to cantaloupe, adding two deaths to the toll.
There were 190 laboratory-confirmed cases of Salmonella Soahanina, Sundsvall, Oranienburg, and Newport illnesses associated with the nationwide outbreak. Sixty-eight patients were hospitalized, and nine died.
Recalls for Malichita and Rudy
Continue Reading Final tally shows nine dead in Canada from Salmonella outbreak traced to cantaloupe
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is warning restaurants and food retailers in California that have recently purchased oysters from Sociedad Acuicola GolPac (MX 06 SP) harvested from Bahia Salina, Sonora, Mexico on 12/18/2023 or 12/27/2023.
The FDA alert is also for consumers in California who have recently consumed
Continue Reading Recently harvested oysters from Mexico may be giving Norovirus to California consumers
An outbreak of norovirus infections has spurred a warning from the Food and Drug Administration about certain oysters from Mexico.
The FDA is advising restaurants and food retailers not to serve or sell and to dispose of oysters and consumers not to eat oysters from Sociedad Acuicola GolPac (MX 06
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