The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) has issued a public health alert for ready-to-eat (RTE), Great Value Black Forest Ham produced by Plumrose USA, doing business as Swift Prepared Foods
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The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) has expanded a recall to more than 2 million pounds, with an expanded list of fully cooked ham and pepperoni products that may be
Continue Reading Recall expanded to 2 million pounds of ham and pepperoni over Listeria concerns
No doubt, many people are planning some special food for Super Bowl LV, which kicks off Sunday at 6:30 p.m. EST.
The Kansas City Chiefs and the Tampa Bay Buccaneers will be facing off for
Continue Reading Start working now on your game plan for food safety on Super Bowl Sunday
Researchers at the University of Georgia are studying the risk of Listeria monocytogenes developing a tolerance to sanitizers, with a specific focus on fresh produce production plants.
The project, titled “Possibility, duration and molecular predictors
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Day two of The International Association for Food Protection 2020, A Virtual Annual Meeting featured a “U.S. Regulatory Update on Food Safety,” from Frank Yiannas, FDA Deputy Commissioner for Food Policy and Response, and Mindy
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The first shipment of beef from the United Kingdom to the United States in more than 20 years was dispatched this week.
The U.S. market had been closed to EU beef since January 1998, when
Continue Reading UK beef exports to U.S. restart after two decades
A Miami, FL firm, Jamaican Tastee Patties, LLC, is recalling approximately 60,457 pounds of meat and poultry patty products that were repackaged, relabeled and redistributed without the benefit of federal inspection, according to the U.S.
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Tuesday at 3:30 p.m. EDT, the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) is offering a free webinar, “USDA Assistance for Small Scale Meat Processing — An Overview of Rural Development and Food Safety Inspection Service
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The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service is proposing to amend regulations to define yak as an “exotic animal.” This change would make yak eligible for voluntary inspections and the USDA voluntary
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The Codex Committee on Food Hygiene met in Cleveland, Ohio earlier this month to talk about food allergen management, biological foodborne outbreaks and guidelines to control E. coli.
Codex Alimentarius is a collection of standards,
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