Back to Square One on Non-O157 STECs
A little over a month ago, on June 3, 2011, Deputy Director Donald Kraemer of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) Center for Food...
FSIS Releases Draft Compliance Guide to Help Improve the Safety of Ready-to-Eat Products
Today, the U.S. Department of Agriculture´s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) issued a press release announcing that it has posted a set of draft...
The time is ripe to regulate non-O157 strains of STEC E. coli
Currently, there are at least two outbreaks nationally that involve dangerous strains of E. coli that are not E. coli O157:H7. Michigan and Ohio are...
FSIS Progress Report on Salmonella in Meat and Poultry
In 1996, the USDA's Food Safety and Inspection Service established the HACCP (hazard analysis and critical control points) rule to verify that establishments have consistent process...
The slow flow of information about food outbreaks
Today, the Rhode Island Department of health announced that the pepper that Daniele Inc used to produce its salami--now the subject of a major recall and outbreak--was contaminated,...
Class I Beef Recall due to E. coli Contamination
West Missouri Beef, LLC has voluntarily recalled 14,000 pounds of boneless beef products due to potential contamination by E. coli O157:H7. USDA's Food Safety and...
Health Subcommittee Sends Food Safety Reform Bill To Full Committee: Vote Next Week
After years of just listening those injured and the survivors of those killed by outbreaks of food-borne illnesses in the United States, the House Health...
USDA's Top Food Safety Post Remains Vacant; Is Vilsack Working Off A Candidate List Approved By Meat Industry? Bloggers Want To Know!
Somebody has finally noticed. In this case, the somebody is Tom Laskawy, a food and environment specialist, and what he has noticed is that President...
USDA Sees the Light on E. coli O157:H7 and Meat
For years, the USDA Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) has allowed meat plants to divert meat that has tested positive for E. coli O157:H7 (or...
FSIS to hold a technical meeting to discuss the updated risk assessment for Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy
The Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) today announced a technical meeting to present and receive comments on an updated risk assessment for bovine spongiform...
