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Publisher’s Platform: Cucumbers, Salmonella and Budget Cuts
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) announced Thursday that a multi-state Salmonella outbreak was likely caused by the consumption of cucumbers imported from Mexico. The announcement came one day after USA Today reporter Liz Szabo reported that the FDA would be conducting 18 percent fewer food inspections this…
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FDA to Extend Comment Deadline for Produce Safety Rule
Responding to multiple stakeholder requests, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration is planning to extend the comment period on the produce safety rule beyond May 16, FDA Commissioner Margaret Hamburg said on Thursday. “We appreciate that these are complex rules to go through and we do intend to extend the…
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FDA's Senior Food Safety Adviser Leaving for Produce Marketing Association
Jim Gorny, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s senior adviser on produce safety at the Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition, has been named vice president of food safety and technology at the Produce Marketing Association, the group announced on Tuesday. Gorny, who begins his new role at PMA…
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FDA Considering Extension of FSMA Produce Safety Comment Deadline
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is considering extending the May 16 comment deadline on the produce safety rule in response to multiple requests by stakeholders, an agency official said Monday. “That’s seriously being considered,” said James Gorny, the agency’s Senior Adviser for Produce Safety, when asked about the possibility…
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Farmers Market Vendors, Managers Get Up To Speed on Food Safety ABCs
No one wants customers to get sick. That was the message that University of Vermont Extension food safety specialist Londa Nwadike used to start off her recent webinar presentation about food safety tips for farmers market vendors and managers. With an eye toward the benefits of following good food safety…
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United Fresh Asks FDA to Extend Comment Period for FSMA Feedback
United Fresh announced this week the association has submitted a request to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) to extend the comment period on certain provisions in the proposed Produce and Preventive Controls Rules, the drafts of which were released by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for comment…
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How Do Pathogens Get Into Produce?
Leafy greens, lettuce, cantaloupes, mangoes and strawberries. These are just some of the foods that have sickened or even killed people when they were contaminated with foodborne pathogens such as E. coli, Listeria and Salmonella. Amidst the confusing swirl of information about these and other produce outbreaks, the…
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Apples Are Covered, Kale Is Exempt: A Look at the Proposed Produce Safety Rule
Last week Food Safety News published an article noting that nearly 80 percent of produce growers will be exempt from the landmark proposed rule that would for the first time require national preventative standards for the produce industry. We got feedback from a handful of readers who took issue with…
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A Roundup of Responses to Landmark Food Safety Rules
With the Friday release of the two first food safety rules, which were mandated by the Food Safety Modernization Act signed into law by President Obama two years ago, came a flood of responses from a variety of stakeholders, many of whom had lobbied for the rules and had…
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