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 to candy or coal, one thing is as sure as Santa’s annual review — every
Continue Reading We checked it twice: The good, the bad and on the bubble
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 are likely responsible for the multistate outbreak of Salmonella Uganda illnesses in the United States,
Continue Reading DeLauro demands an immediate mandatory recall by FDA of Cavi papayas
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 Mexico, according to some domestic growers and a top food safety advocate in Congress. There’s
Continue Reading Questions and controversies over role of Mexican papayas in rare outbreak strain
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 the patchwork system “where no single voice guides industry, retailers and consumers” into a seamless
Continue Reading Bill for Safe Food Act seeks to consolidate federal oversight
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 to do list for about 20 years. Last February, the agency published a proposed rule
Continue Reading Final rule for New Swine Inspection System could stall out in Congress
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 with suggested application measures to reduce glyphosate drift and disclosure about herbicide resistance. New instructions
Continue Reading Glyphosate use may be OK on farms, gardens, but Bayer may pay for it
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 time for education and training would be required. The original 2018 compliance date for the
Continue Reading Rep. DeLauro says she’s had enough with FDA’s delays in water quality enforcement
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 food safety expert says two of three new Chinese poultry processing plants eligible since late
Continue Reading Two of three new poultry processors in Chinese provinces never audited
A 10-state Salmonella Braenderup outbreak associated with the largest egg recall since 2010 is apparently over, according to the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Originally announced April 16 as a nine-state incident with 23 illnesses, the outbreak ended up with 45 confirmed cases in 10 states with 11
Continue Reading CDC says Rose Acre Farms egg outbreak ‘appears to be over’
Congresswoman Rosa DeLauro, who chairs the Congressional Food Safety Caucus, has expressed her opposition to any agreement to allow imports of Chinese-raised poultry into the United States.
The Connecticut Democrat, who is also a senior member of the Agriculture Appropriations Subcommittee, put her concerns in writing with a letter to
Continue Reading Chinese poultry isn’t safe, Rep. DeLauro tells Secretary Perdue
