Penn State Food Safety Blog

JANUARY 11, 2024

The FDA issued the first CORE (Coordinated Outbreak Response & Evaluation Network) annual report summarizing the investigations of foodborne outbreaks and adverse events in FDA-regulated human foods for the 2022 calendar year. FDA published a strategy summary to prevent Listeria from Enoki mushrooms. LINK to report.

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Food Safety Magazine

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

In 2011, the same year that the Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA) was signed into law, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) established the Coordinated Outbreak Response and Evaluation (CORE) Network to serve as the agency's focal point for response coordination and evaluation of foodborne illness outbreaks.

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Bill Marler

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

From the FDA: Although you stated that corrective actions were implemented following the 2019 and 2012 outbreaks, you have not provided FDA with any information demonstrating long-term, sustainable corrections have been implemented throughout your organization to prevent this violation from recurring in the future. Multistate E.

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Food Safety Magazine

APRIL 15, 2024

Allergen-related food recalls have increased since the introduction of FDA's Food Safety Modernization Act in 2011. This article shares the fundamentals of conducting an allergen gap assessment to help companies comply with new FDA guidance on allergen management.

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Bill Marler

AUGUST 17, 2022

Food and Drug Administration (FDA), and the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (USDA-FSIS) – I do not recall a CDC post recently that included working with both the FSIS (regulates, Beef, Pork, Poultry and Catfish) and the FDA (regulates everything else). Romaine, 2011, 58 cases, 59% female.

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Modern Restaurant Management

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

The Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA) was signed into law in January of 2011 and expanded the Food and Drug Administration (FDA)’s authority to regulate the way foods are grown, harvested and processed. FSMA Rule 204 allows the FDA to request Critical Tracking Events (CTE) and the business must respond within 24 hours.

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Food Safety Tech

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

According to the CDC and FDA, as of February 12, 2024, a total of 26 people infected with the outbreak strain of Listeria have been reported from 11 states, including Arizona, California, Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Nevada, North Carolina, Oregon, Tennessee, Texas, and Washington. FDA initiated an on-site inspection at Rizo Lopez Foods.

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Bill Marler

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

2011) (“[A]n agency ‘is required to at least definitively respond to. [a] 2011) (observing, in the context of reviewing petitioner’s standing, that “the APA is less than crystal-clear on plaintiff’s statutory right to a response,” though simultaneously citing WWHT, “an agency must receive and respond”). 2d 807, 813 (D.C. CDC, 2021. [7]

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Food Safety News

JANUARY 10, 2024

It marks the first time CORE has published an annual report since its inception in 2011. The FDA established CORE to find, stop, and aid in the prevention of foodborne illness outbreaks. CORE only deals with FDA-regulated human foods and does not investigate foods under the jurisdiction of the U.S. Department of Agriculture.

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Food Safety News

DECEMBER 3, 2023

The rule is a key component of the FDA’s New Era of Smarter Food Safety Blueprint and implements Section 204(d) of the FDA Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA) , which was signed into law in January 2011. The final rule aligns with current industry best practices. It covers domestic and foreign firms producing food for U.S.

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Bill Marler

MAY 18, 2022

In 30 years of practice, I have on numerous occasions offered to FDA leadership the opportunity to meet directly with the people who consumed food that was tainted under the FDA’s watch. John’s symptoms came on in late September 2011. Clarence became ill in late August 2011.

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Bill Marler

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

FDA has been notified of additional companies who have issued public notifications or recalls for products linked to the Rizo-Lopez Foods, Inc. FDA conducted inspections at the Rizo-López Foods facility and collected food and environmental samples for testing. dairy recall that were sold at retail locations. What is Listeria?

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Penn State Food Safety Blog

OCTOBER 27, 2023

FDA issued a Warning Letter after an investigation "conducted as a follow-up to a Reportable Food Registry (RFR) report regarding suspected monensin poisoning from a medicated feed that resulted in numerous cattle deaths". A sample of your medicated cattle feed labeled as “(b)(4)” for beef cattle was collected by FDA on January 27, 2023.

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Food Safety Tech

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

The Interagency Food Safety Analytics Collaboration (IFSAC)—a collaboration between the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the FDA and the USDA Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS)—has published its upcoming priorities for calendar years 2024 – 2028.

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Bill Marler

DECEMBER 10, 2021

2] Following the November 2010 outbreak, then owner John Liautaud stated in January of 2011 that the chain would replace alfalfa sprouts with clover sprouts as they were allegedly easier to clean. [3]. the owner of Jimmy John’s, LLC, replied to the FDA that sprouts had been permanently removed from the menu at all Jimmy John’s locations.

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Bill Marler

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

FDA has been notified of additional recalls on 2/8/2024 for products made with or containing recalled dairy products from Rizo Lopez Foods, Inc. FDA conducted inspections at the Rizo-López Foods facility and collected food and environmental samples for testing. BrightFarms, Inc. recalled Southwest Chipotle salad kits. What is Listeria?

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Bill Marler

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

In 2011 I wrote: Last week the USDA Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) announced a recall of ground turkey products due to “possible” Salmonella contamination. A total of 79 persons infected with the outbreak strain of Salmonella Heidelberg have been reported from 26 states between March 1 and August 3, 2011.

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Food Safety News

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

The FDA and CDC continue investigating a multistate outbreak of E. 28 outbreak update from the FDA. The RAW FARM defendants, after 60 months, can petition the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for “relief from this Decree.” In the meantime, they must “abide by the decisions of the FDA.”

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Bill Marler

DECEMBER 2, 2019

Last month, the FDA retroactively identified an outbreak involving romaine lettuce that occurred in late summer, causing 23 illnesses. The Food Safety Modernization Act , signed into law in 2011, places the responsibility on food producers to prevent contamination from occurring and to assure their product is safe.

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Food Safety Tech

APRIL 30, 2024

getting sick each year from foodborne illness, the FDA is continuing to transform the nation’s food safety system with more stringent rules and regulations. The rule was finalized by the FDA on November 15, 2022. The next step should be to consult the FDA’s reference guide on CTEs and KDEs to determine which KDEs you must record.

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Penn State Food Safety Blog

JUNE 11, 2024

It was not immediately embraced, but after two deaths from botulism caused by canned soup that summer, the National Canners Association petitioned the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for regulations to prevent food poisoning. Then came the 2011 FDA Food Safety Modernization Act. Now plants have to present reams of data. “We

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Bill Marler

DECEMBER 7, 2023

It reminded me of another post of nearly a decade ago when we were in the middle of yet another cantaloupe mess – here is the post: By Bill Marler on November 30, 2018 FDA and industry and Congress all need to step up and do something. The Fresh Fruit and Vegetable line item alone is said to be approaching $200 million.

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Food Safety Tech

MAY 28, 2024

On November 21, 2022, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) published the Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA) Final Rule: Requirements for Additional Traceability Records for Certain Foods (Food Traceability Rule). Ensure all data is easily accessible so it can be provided to the FDA within 24 hours of a request.

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Bill Marler

DECEMBER 23, 2021

The outbreak sickened over 147, killing over 33 in 28 states in the fall of 2011. The FDA, CDC, and Blue Bell all issued public recall notifications on March 13, 2015. The indictment further stated that the cantaloupe was prepared, packed and held under conditions, which rendered it injurious to health.

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Food Safety News

AUGUST 30, 2023

Food and Drug Administration, and the Food Safety and Inspection Service of the United States Department of Agriculture—teamed up in 2011 to create the Interagency Food Safety Analytics Collaboration (IFSAC).

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Food Quality & Safety

JUNE 29, 2023

“Shifting the ingrained cultures of regulatory agencies from reactivity to prevention continues to be elusive, although there was much optimism that change would occur when the Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA) became law in 2011,” Baum says. Allard, PhD, a research microbiologist in the division of microbiology at FDA.

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Bill Marler

DECEMBER 14, 2019

Product traceback efforts by local health jurisdictions, state health departments, and FDA could not identify a single product lot, processor, or farm as the source of the entire outbreak. FDA, CDC and state partners conducted an EA in the growing region, which consisted of farms in Imperial County, CA and Yuma County, AZ.

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Bill Marler

NOVEMBER 19, 2023

In 2011, Listeria -tainted cantaloupes grown in Eastern Colorado sickened 147 in two dozen states, killing at least 33. An auditor recommended by Walmart inspected the farm and packing shed in 2011, while the cantaloupes were actually being washed by un-chlorinated, Listeria -tainted water. Much, in addition to both being round.

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Food Safety Tech

AUGUST 28, 2023

1] In order to improve the landscape of health and safety in the food and beverage industry, the IFT in conjunction with the FDA embarked on a study [2] of how low- or no-cost technology could improve traceability for businesses within the global food supply chain. References [1] Scallan, E., Hoekstra, R. Angulo, F. Widdowson, M., 2023, May).

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Penn State Food Safety Blog

OCTOBER 13, 2023

The company was owned and operated by four generations of the Yarnell’s family and was purchased in November 2011 by Schulze & Burch Biscuit Company, with operations in Chicago and Searcy. The recall was initiated after it was discovered during a label review that the product may contain undeclared egg.

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Bill Marler

DECEMBER 7, 2023

It has been a long few weeks of long days, and more than a few nights, working on putting the cases together of the 22 injured people and the families of 20 who died in the 2011 Listeria cantaloupe outbreak that I represent. The original recall of cantaloupes was initiated on July 28 after a MDP in New York found contaminated cantaloupe.

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Food Safety News

AUGUST 20, 2023

Oft-cited statistics from a seminal CDC study published in 2011 concluded that, at that time, one in six Americans — roughly 48 million people — suffered a foodborne illness each year, 128,000 were hospitalized, and 3,000 died. However, some U.S. These data stand in stark contrast to a WHO study published in 2015. The list goes on.

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Food Safety Tech

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

2011) [1] studied the use of checklists to reduce diagnostic errors in hospitals, clinics and emergency rooms. In 2020, FDA published an Employee Health and Food Safety Checklist in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. These include a “checklist for formatting checklists” and scholarly presentations on the logic behind checklists.

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Bill Marler

JANUARY 27, 2024

In 2011, a multistate outbreak of Listeria monocytogenes infections involving 5 distinct strains was associated with consumption of cantaloupe grown at Jensen Farms’ production fields in Granada, Colorado. Among persons for whom information is available, reported illness onset ranged from July 31, 2011 through October 27, 2011.

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Food Quality & Safety

JUNE 29, 2023

Previously, companies had to petition FDA for pre-market approval for substances and packaging that came into contact with food. With this legislation, unless FDA disagrees with the evidence submitted in the notification application within 120 days of a submission for approval, food companies could go ahead and use it. 1999;5:607-625).

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Bill Marler

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

2011 Multistate Outbreak of Salmonella Panama Linked to De Monte Cantaloupe Del Monte Fresh Produce recalled whole cantaloupes after an epidemiologic link was found between the cantaloupe and an outbreak of Salmonella Panama. Illness onset dates ranged from June 6 to July 15, 2011. The cantaloupes were grown in Guatemala.

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Bill Marler

NOVEMBER 18, 2023

Among persons for whom information is available, reported illness onset ranged from July 31, 2011 through October 27, 2011. Laboratory testing by FDA identified L. A total of 147 persons were reported to the CDC. Thirty three persons died, and one pregnant woman miscarried.

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