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Letter From The Editor: Does the USDA do it?

By Dan Flynn on February 24, 2021
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Tom Vilsack is again the Secretary of Agriculture, having won U.S. Senate confirmation in a 92-to-7 vote Tuesday. Sonny Perdue is back home in Georgia playing with his grandchildren. Long live the Secretary of…
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The Lepiota brunneoincarnata mushroom

China records large spike in mushroom poisoning incidents

By Joe Whitworth on February 24, 2021

The amount of mushroom poisonings and the number of people affected doubled this past year in China compared to 2019.

In 2020, the number of investigations reached 676, involving 102 species of poisonous mushrooms, 24…
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Irish complaints include hair, snails, moths, stones, live insects in food

By News Desk on February 24, 2021

Consumer complaints in 2020 included hair in foods, glass in soup and insects and rodent droppings in products, according to the Food Safety Authority of Ireland (FSAI).

In total, 2,772 grievances were handled by the…
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EU countries battling lack of resources for food controls

By Joe Whitworth on February 23, 2021

Many European countries are struggling to perform all their planned checks on businesses because of resource issues, according to a report.

The analysis covers national and EU Commission controls during 2017 and 2018 on food…
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Examples of unsolicited seeds. Photo courtesy of USDA

USDA finds no evidence of intentional harm from seed deliveries

By News Desk on February 23, 2021

The U.S. Department of Agriculture hasn’t found any evidence that someone was deliberately trying to cause harm with unsolicited seed deliveries, according to an investigation report.

The USDA’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS)…
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FDA import alerts

Alerts include concerns about seafood, food colorings, sulfites

By News Desk on February 23, 2021

Editor’s note:
The Food and Drug Administration uses import alerts to enforce U.S. food safety regulations for food from foreign countries. The agency updates and modifies the alerts as needed.

Recent modifications to FDA’s import …
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recalled Chinese beef tallow imports

48.4 tons of ineligible beef from China caught and recalled

By News Desk on February 22, 2021

Chino, CA-based GLG Trading Inc. late Monday recalled almost 97,000 pounds of beef tallow products that were imported from the People’s Republic of China, an ineligible country for beef, without the benefit of FSIS import

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SFC chicken recall

Nearly 500 sick as FSA renews breaded chicken warning

By Joe Whitworth on February 22, 2021

Public health officials in the United Kingdom are continuing to investigate an outbreak of Salmonella infections linked to raw breaded chicken.

From January 2020, there have been 480 patients confirmed with salmonellosis caused by two…
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Produce checks largely compliant in Czech Republic

By News Desk on February 21, 2021

Only 10 of almost 800 samples taken during food safety inspections were non-compliant, according to results published by the Ministry of Health in the Czech Republic.

From August to October 2017, the Regional Hygiene Stations…
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Cryptosporidiosis

Researchers find gaps in EU parasite surveillance

By Joe Whitworth on February 20, 2021

Adequate surveillance programs for most foodborne parasites in Europe are lacking, according to a recently published study.

Researchers found although human and animal data are available for five selected parasites, the surveillance and reporting requirements…
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