Richard Raymond, the USDA Undersecretary for Food Safety yesterday addressed food and restaurant industry groups. According to an article from the Associated Press:
Combining food safety agencies "is an unnecessary solution," Raymond told an audience of supermarket and restaurant industry executives Wednesday. "The USDA and the FDA have a long history of working together very
The Citizen reports that Georgia consumers are being urged to check their freezers for potentially contaminated beef products:
"Georgia Commissioner of Agriculture Tommy Irvin is advising Georgians to check their freezers and refrigerators for recalled ground beef products that may be contaminated with a dangerous form of E. coli bacteria. Jim’s Market and Locker Inc.
San Jose Mercury News reports that California lawmakers are looking into changing food-safety laws.
California has been “asleep at the wheel” when it comes to preventing produce contamination, according to a Central Valley legislator who ended a food-safety hearing Wednesday by saying it’s time to stop letting growers police themselves.
“We have a very, very
More on the botulism carrot juice from the National Post:
Toronto health officials continue to scour the city for bottles of carrot juice after two people were paralyzed with botulism poisoning after consuming the drink.
Dr. Barbara Yaffe, Toronto’s associate medical officer of health, said that after issuing an order to recall three brands
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The Toronto Star reports that Bolthouse Farms, the company whose carrot juice has been traced as the source of botulism and the resulting paralysis of four American citizens and two Canadians, blamed consumers for their "failure to properly refrigerate" Bolthouse Farms carrot juice today.
"It appears that it was consumers that did not take the
CTV.ca News this morning published an article on foodborne illness, where it comes from, and how to avoid it.
"Recent cases of food-borne illness raise questions not only about farming practices and government regulations, but also what steps consumers need take to ensure their own safety.
For years, North Americans have heard food safety
Today, the Health Department plans to release the results of lab tests at College Park Elementary School, where a mystery bug sickened about 190 students and staffers last week.
"We have the biggest part of the picture," Dr. Venita Newby-Owens, the city’s health director, said late Tuesday. The department will review the lab results internally
Margaret Prouse of The Gaurdian today published an article about food safety:
"Preventing foodborne illness, or food poisoning, is just as important as preventing injury from accidents or fire. Those who are young, old, pregnant or have impaired immune systems are most at risk, but no one wants to get food poisoning.
There are
The Monterey Herald reports that Mexico is banning U.S. imports. More countries to follow?
Mexico’s Department of Health announced Monday that the country’s 105 ports of entry would block all U.S. lettuce from coming through the border as a result of Nunes Co.’s precautionary recall.
The family-run company recalled the lettuce after water from a
Keith Warriner from the University of Guelph commenting on recent recalls and questioning where Canidian’s food comes from:
Part of the problem is the fact that Canada gets as much as 80 per cent of its produce from California, where health officials have warned growers three times in the last three years about their growing