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GAO delivers 3 recommendations to make CDC better

By Dan Flynn on November 23, 2020

Steve D. Morris is a name many may not recognize, yet he is a major national food safety decision maker. And he just writes letters with many of them addressed to Rep. Rosa DeLauro, who…
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Democrat leaders in food sector and Consumer Reports hatch plan for Sonny Perdue

By News Desk on May 5, 2020

Two senior U.S. Representatives, two former Secretaries of Agriculture, a chef, and Consumer Reports have sent USDA an “action plan” to safeguard America’s food supply during the COVID-19 pandemic. They’ve sent the plan with

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Consumer Reports taps former USDA food safety official to direct food policy

By News Desk on January 7, 2020

Consumer Reports Monday announced the appointment of former USDA deputy undersecretary Brian Ronholm as director of food policy for the 80-year old non-profit organization.

“Mr. Ronholm will lead Consumer Reports’ advocacy efforts to advance a …
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We checked it twice: The good, the bad and on the bubble

By Coral Beach & Joe Whitworth on December 24, 2019
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It’s Dec. 24, do you know where your name is?

Here at Food Safety News we’ve been checking the year-end Naughty & Nice Lists and we’re ready to nominate some names. When it comes…
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DeLauro demands an immediate mandatory recall by FDA of Cavi papayas

By Dan Flynn on July 19, 2019

Congresswoman Rosa DeLauro, D-CT, is demanding the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) use its mandatory authority to force Agroson’s LLC to recall the Cavi brand of the whole, fresh papayas.

The Cavi brand papayas…
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Questions and controversies over role of Mexican papayas in rare outbreak strain

By Dan Flynn on July 3, 2019

Late this past Friday afternoon, the CDC stepped out to warn many Americans not to eat Mexican-grown papayas out of fear the imported fruit may have Salmonella Uganda contamination.

That warning is proving controversial with…
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Bill for Safe Food Act seeks to consolidate federal oversight

By Coral Beach on June 27, 2019

Citing fragmented food safety oversight, which is split up between 15 federal agencies, two lawmakers want Congress to scrap the current system and the ineffective laws that regulate it.

The Safe Food Act could weave…
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Final rule for New Swine Inspection System could stall out in Congress

By Dan Flynn on June 6, 2019

Change often comes slowly at the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service, but it’s not always the agency’s fault.

This week produced one such example. Modernizing swine inspection has been on FSIS’s…
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Glyphosate use may be OK on farms, gardens, but Bayer may pay for it

By Dan Flynn on May 2, 2019

Its critics say the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has “doubled down” on the active ingredient in Roundup, the popular weed killer.

But that’s probably an overstatement.

On April 30 the EPA changed Roundup’s label requirements…
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Rep. DeLauro says she’s had enough with FDA’s delays in water quality enforcement

By News Desk on February 15, 2019

Leaders at the Food and Drug Administration charged with implementing the Food Safety Modernization Act knew agricultural water standards weren’t going to be met by someone in Washington D.C. snapping their fingers.

They decided more…
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Two of three new poultry processors in Chinese provinces never audited

By Dan Flynn on July 23, 2018

Just a year ago, the first poultry products processed in China from raw chicken raised and slaughtered in Chile entered the United States — a mere 110 pounds of cooked breaded chicken. But a congressional…
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