The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) should “give a life-saving gift” to Americans this Valentine’s Day by declaring six additional strains of E. coli that cause illness and death as adulterants in beef, a top food safety group says.
Under the law, adulterants are impurities not to be tolerated.
USDA’s…
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Summit meetings are usually successful if the right people choose to attend, and by that measure the Traceability Interoperability Summit that ends today in Denver has achieved at least one of its goals.
Traceability Institute LLC, based in Colorado Springs, CO and Brussels, Belgium, pulled the summit together with a…
Victims of the Salmonella outbreak caused by the Peanut Corporation of America marked the anniversary of the tragedy by calling on the United States Senate to pass meaningful food safety legislation.
All are active in the Make Our Food Safe lobbying campaign by a coalition of consumer and food safety…
State health departments’ capacity to respond to foodborne illness outbreaks varies widely and can lead to delays in public health response, according to a recent survey conducted by Safe Tables Our Priority (S.T.O.P.), a non-profit public health organization.
Thirty-nine of 51 state and DIstrict of Columbia health departments responded…
