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Could Dole and Fresh Express face criminal charges for Listeria Outbreaks?

Bill Marler

In 2013 Austin “Jack” DeCoster and his son, Peter DeCoster, both faced charges stemming from a Salmonella outbreak caused by their Iowa egg farms in 2010. The Salmonella outbreak ran from May 1 to November 30, 2010, and prompted the recall of more than a half-billion eggs.

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2023 Update on state food safety legislation

Food Safety News

Rhode Island’s H 5345 provides that the state consents to the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA) provisions relative to the Preventive Controls for Animal Food Regulations. Food desert legislation has proliferated in the past 10 years. and West Virginia.

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Bringing Food Safety to the Masses

Food Safety Tech

However, there were no significant changes in FDA policy until FSMA was passed in 2010, and the rules didn’t start to be implemented until 2016. Imagine if we had a single food safety agency. Does this mean you support the potential move to create a single Human Foods program at the federal level?