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California growers say their new water rules mean safer romaine for everyone

By Dan Flynn on April 22, 2019

For the second time this year, romaine lettuce growers are imposing measures they hope will end the recent string of E. coli O157:H7 outbreaks that were associated with their products last year. This latest action…
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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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E. coli levels in private water supplies in Scotland deemed ‘unacceptable’

By News Desk on September 29, 2018

Findings of E. coli in more than one in 10 tests on private water supplies in Scotland is “unacceptable,” according to the body that regulates water quality.

A report from Scotland’s Drinking Water Quality Regulator…
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Top food safety stories include regs, recalls, respects this year

By Dan Flynn on December 22, 2017

Editor’s Note:  The Food Safety News list of the year’s most significant news is compiled annually by our writers and editors. The list for 2017 is not led by any one or two blockbuster food …
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Promise of Decision in Chesapeake Bay Poultry Case Before Year’s End

By Dan Flynn on December 3, 2012

A federal judge in Baltimore has promised to issue his written decision, which could determine the future of the entire poultry industry on Maryland’s eastern shore, by year’s end. U.S. District Judge William M. Nickerson…
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Questions Over Water Quality at Philly Airport

By Dan Flynn on August 17, 2011

Philadelphia International Airport has lost its “approved” status for watering and aircraft servicing, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) said in an Aug. 9 warning letter to airport executive Mark Gale.

In the warning…

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Berry Lovers Benefit from Food Safety Scrutiny

By Cookson Beecher on July 22, 2010

It’s berry season.  Time for some chlorine.  

No, we’re not talking about chlorine as in sunglasses and swimming pools but rather chlorine as in berry farmers and irrigation water.

And while the juxtaposition of…

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Millions Chronically Exposed to Arsenic in Water

By Helena Bottemiller on July 9, 2010

Between 35 and 77 million Bangladeshis have been exposed to toxic levels of arsenic from drinking contaminated water, a public health calamity causing one in five deaths in the country, according to new research published…

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Water Source of Campylobacter Outbreak in Utah

By Suzanne Schreck on May 15, 2010

The City of Saratoga Springs, Utah, issued a boil water order for the northern half of the city this week after Campylobacter bacteria were discovered in the city’s culinary water system.  

According to an…

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Vilsack Announces Ohio Wastewater Project

By Michelle Greenhalgh on April 7, 2010

Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack announced the funding of a regional wastewater system in Scioto County, Ohio Tuesday.

The project will alleviate public health and water quality problems associated with failed individual community systems by providing…
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