The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) announced Friday that its avocado inspection program in Michoacan, Mexico, has restarted and avocado exports to the United States have resumed following a threat against one of the U.S. inspector.
“The safety of USDA employees simply doing their
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Although the issue is not specifically food safety, the import of avocados from a state in Mexico has been banned because of a safety threat against a U.S. official.
The move comes after a drug cartel struck out at growers in the state of Michoacan, which is Mexico’s only completely
Continue Reading Some Mexican avocados banned from U.S. import list; FDA alters import rules for some fruit juice, candy and seafood
Federal officials are continuing to investigate an outbreak of Salmonella Oranienburg infections traced to whole, fresh onions from Mexico, but the outbreak has been declared over with more than 1,000 people sickened.
In an update today the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced that, as of Jan. 20, a
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Officials in Mexico are monitoring the U.S. investigation into a Salmonella outbreak associated with onions from the Mexican state of Chihuahua.
The Salmonella Oranienburg outbreak stretches across 37 states and has sickened 808 people, as of an Oct. 29 update from the U.S. Centers for Disease and Prevention. Several recalls
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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. Click here to go to the FDA page
Continue Reading Modified alerts target imported shrimp, papayas, canned crabmeat and more
Cinco de Mayo is a holiday celebrated in parts of Mexico and the United States in commemoration of the Mexican Army’s victory in 1862 over the French forces of Napoleon III. The holiday is also a way people celebrate their Mexican heritage and share it with other groups.
As with
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Officials in a Mexican state have issued a warning after suspicions that more than 50 people fell sick from eating meat contaminated with Clenbuterol.
Health services in Morelos called on people to remain vigilant for the physical symptoms that can result from consuming meat with Clenbuterol. A total of 54
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France has become the fifth country to report Listeria in enoki mushrooms from South Korea.
It was already known that 36 people fell sick and four died in the United States from November 2016 to December 2019. Six illnesses were recorded in Canada between 2017 and 2019 and five in
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Researchers have developed a device that detects low concentrations of methanol in alcoholic beverages.
Swiss experts have created and tested a portable device paired with a smartphone app that can measure methanol levels. When placed over an open container, the device uses a sensor that absorbs a vapor or gas
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In 2019, multiple outbreaks of cyclosporiasis were identified and found to be linked to different produce items, according to a report from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
About 10 percent of ill people were associated with a multistate outbreak of Cyclospora infections linked to fresh basil imported
Continue Reading U.S. cyclospora infections increasing; fresh produce behind many cases
