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As of Nov. 9, 2021, health officials in Roanoke, Virginia, confirmed a total of 50 primary cases and two secondary cases of hepatitis A linked to a hepatitis A positive food service employee who
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Editor’s note: Frank Yiannas, FDA Deputy Commissioner for Food Policy and Response
Foodborne outbreaks can affect all of us, and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration is at the forefront of helping
Continue Reading Too many people are still getting sick from foodborne illness; FDA has a plan to change that
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Editor’s note: The following is attributed to Frank Yiannas, FDA Deputy Commissioner for Food Policy and Response, and Stic Harris, D.V.M. director of the FDA’s Coordinated Outbreak Response and Evaluation Network.
The
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The Michigan Department of Agriculture and Rural Development (MDARD) late Saturday told consumers not to eat the following brand of fresh enoki mushrooms after a sample tested positive for Listeria monocytogenes.
HACCP: A systematic approach to the identification, evaluation, and control of food safety hazards.” – So says the FDA.
Although yesterday’s announcement (FDA Proposes Changes to Food Safety Modernization Act Rule to Enhance Safety
Continue Reading Publisher’s Platform: Is FDA creating a HACCP program for produce?
In an article that will soon be published in the Seattle Law Review, I take a look at food safety through the lens of the “pink slime” controversy and question whether the lack of
Continue Reading USDA, Salmonella, and the Cowardly Lion: A profile in the lack of courage
Last week the USDA Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) announced a recall of ground turkey products due to “possible” Salmonella contamination. According to the press release, “Cargill Meat Solutions
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The Camden County Health Department in New Jersey has been notified by a health care provider that a food handler employed at a Starbucks at 1490 Blackwood Clementon Road in Gloucester Township tested positive
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If the FDA, CDC, Jimmy John’s corporate officials, and the seed supplier (ISS) had gone public in 2019, would 51 have been sickened in 2020?
Here is the 2020 summary:
When the CDC declared
Continue Reading Publisher’s Platform: Sorry to be a pest CDC and FDA, but are not the 2019 and 2020 Jimmy John’s “Sproutbreaks” one outbreak with 73 sick with E. coli O103 from one seed supplier?
The last few weeks have sounded remarkably familiar to Spring 2020 when we faced a nationwide (and Canada) Salmonella outbreak linked to California grown onions. We are now facing a similar outbreak – smaller
Continue Reading Publisher’s Platform: What did we learn – or not – from the 2020 onion outbreak
