Members of the European Parliament (MEPs) have backed plans to ensure data used in decisions on food safety is made publicly available.
The plenary vote on amendments to the General Food Law saw approval for
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Publisher’s Platform: Why are these fish still on store shelves? I was wrong.
Although the brand was recalled, the Best Buy Date was not part of the recall. My apologies to my friends at Safeway.
On July 23rd Pepperidge Farms recalled Goldfish crackers because they might be tainted
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Federal officials post public alert about Hungry Man dinners
Federal officials on Friday posted a public health alert regarding certain Hungry Man frozen dinners because of concerns about Salmonella contamination of whey powder used to make them. One day earlier, Flowers Foods Inc. recalled
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FDA should choose public safety over corporate confidentiality
The FDA has an opportunity now to update its recall disclosure policy to provide consumers critical information they need and want to protect themselves during an outbreak. The agency can, and should, begin routinely identifying
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Feds get a little queasy over new Seattle policy to disclose active investigations
SALT LAKE CITY — Public Health – Seattle & King County currently report under “active investigations” a “bacterial toxin” associated with Lahori Kabab-n-Grill in Kent, WA and a Shiga toxin-producing E. coli outbreak associated with
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Now that you’ve got the data, what are you going to do with it?
Editor’s note: This is the third installment of a four-part series on how companies can use electronic record keeping to enhance food safety efforts. The series is sponsored by PAR Technologies.
As companies transition from
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Publisher’s Platform: Change of heart on Trade Secrets, or a Random Act of Transparency?
Two weeks ago, the FDA published the “FDA Update on Traceback Related to the E. coli O157:H7 Outbreak Linked to Romaine Lettuce.” The diagram entitled “Redacted draft traceback diagram for FDA investigation of
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Publisher’s Platform: Why I love Doc Raymond – and Transparency
Tomorrow the CDC will update the Romaine E. coli outbreak and probably say that it is “over” (last time it updated was May 16th). The numbers will also likely jump from 172 to
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Romaine source(s) remain elusive as E. coli outbreak grows
The number of victims in an E. coli outbreak linked to romaine lettuce jumped almost 60 percent in the past week as public health officials struggled to determine the source or sources of the implicated
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FDA chasing after voluntary recalls, but doesn’t often take mandatory route
Timely and efficient food recalls would cut down on foodborne illnesses, but the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has yet to figure out to do it.
That’s the bottom line of another report on FDA
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FDA, CDC won’t release details on tuna Salmonella outbreak
Although a county epidemiologist reported extensive details this week on a multi-state outbreak of Salmonella linked to tuna, federal agencies won’t release information on the investigation, which began more than a month ago.
Before the
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