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Is the FDA reviving the MDP without telling us?

Bill Marler

According to Food Safety News , the FDA is launching a new, temporary testing program for the romaine lettuce from commercial coolers in the Yuma, AZ, growing region. Here is Dan Flynn’s editorial from Food Safety News from Spring 2012: Big Fresh has the blood on its hands. Salmonella spp. Back in February, U.S.

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So, what’s the cause of the recent E. coli O157:H7 Outbreak?

Bill Marler

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).

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Farms in Indiana implicated in recent cantaloupe outbreak, but FDA has not named them

Food Safety News

The FDA says the outbreak of Salmonella Newport infections linked to three farms in Indiana is over, but the agency has not named the farms. The FDA did not name the farms linked to the previous outbreaks, but a report on the 2022 outbreak referenced Knox and Gibson Counties of Indiana.

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

Bill Marler

A food product is also considered “adulterated” if it bears or contains any poisonous or deleterious substance, which may render it injurious to health. The 1938 Act, and the recently signed Food Safety Modernization Act, stand today as the primary means by which the federal government enforces food safety standards.

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What is it with Cantaloupe and Bacteria?

Bill Marler

Those same retailers distance themselves from such behavior, clucking constantly about food safety from “farm to fork” and creating a “culture of food safety.” They hire auditors as middlemen in the food-safety chain to give them cover to ignore food safety risks. Food and Drug Administration.

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Modernize Your Recall Management Plan with Digital and Automated Strategies

Modern Restaurant Management

Global and domestic supply chains are more complex and interdependent than ever, and while they offer consumer benefits like more choices, lower prices, and the year-round availability of many food items that were once only seasonal, the increasing number of moving pieces also adds more risk for product quality and food safety failures.

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What about hybrid meat? Food safety questions arise

Food Safety News

Late last year, the FDA gave cultivated meat maker California-based UPSIDE Foods the green light for its chicken grown from animal cells, marking the first regulatory approval for any cultivated meat in the United States. In 2013, when news about the world’s first lab-grown burger came out, it cost $330,000 to produce.