Authorities in an Australian state have issued a warning about two food products that contain an ingredient found in rat poison after five people fell sick.
Queensland Health and Queensland Police Service are investigating the suspected brodifacoum poisoning cases. Brodifacoum is the active ingredient in rat poison that inhibits Vitamin
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Rentokil is the world’s largest pest control company, operating in 90 countries worldwide. Its 2024 State of the Rodent Report is out. If you don’t like rats, this document is not comforting, and its findings are not good for food safety.
According to the report, there has been a nationwide
Continue Reading Roof rats are leading increases in rodent infestations – and there is no end in sight
A Japanese company has issued a recall of bread after the discovery of rat remains in two packs.
Pasco Shikishima Corporation said the recall was due to contamination with a foreign object, part of which appeared to be a small animal, being mixed into the sliced bread.
As yet, there
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Rats populate much of New York City, as was illustrated by a federal food safety case settled this past Friday.
It all started in April 2022 when federal investigators checked out a meat and poultry warehouse on NYC’s Allen Street, only to discover what might’ve been the city’s best-fed rat
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As part of its enforcement activities, the Food and Drug Administration sends warning letters to entities under its jurisdiction. Some letters are not posted for public view until weeks or months after they are sent. Business owners have 15 days to respond to FDA warning letters. Warning letters often are
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Ron and Darlene Fields had been married for 26 years when they decided to take a “free” 12-day trip to Hawaii in fall 2016.
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Every hour of every day people around the world are living with and working to resolve food safety issues. Here is a sampling of current headlines for your consumption.
Man sprays produce with feces-scented liquid
A Harris Teeter store in South Carolina has reopened after a man allegedly sprayed fresh
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At noon Friday, when President Donald J. Trump took the oath of office, Dr. Tom Frieden ceased being director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. He left CDC on a day when the agency was dealing with the first known outbreak in the U.S. of Seoul Virus, a
Continue Reading Rear Admiral with a lot of experience now acting CDC director
U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) inspectors can be very specific when locating this problem in a food processing facility, and they tend to exit with precise counts of the evidence, such as the number of rodent excreta found at every location. These are pests that might carry foodborne pathogens,
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Along with reports of Salmonella infection outbreaks involving contact with chicks and ducks, tiny turtles and pet frogs, add 46 cases of Salmonella I 4,[5],12:i:- infection linked to handling rodents sold as food for pet reptiles and amphibians.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, in its April
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