Food Quality & Safety

JUNE 29, 2023

Editor’s note: As Food Quality & Safety celebrates 30 years of publication, we think it’s fitting to examine the major food safety events of the period and to highlight the extraordinary efforts to make food safer over the last three decades. It was a defining moment in food safety history.”

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Bill Marler

JULY 27, 2023

Information from more than 6,000 REPJFX01 isolates from non-human sources has been reported to PulseNet, with the earliest in 2014. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service. Most isolates are from chicken samples collected by the U.S. Although whole genome sequencing (WGS) data from U.S.

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Food Safety Tech

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

The Food Safety Law Firm, is investigating the Rizo Lopez Foods cheese Listeria outbreak that has sickened 26 people in 11 states, including deaths in California and Texas. This outbreak includes cases dating back to 2014 and is currently ongoing. FDA initiated an on-site inspection at Rizo Lopez Foods.

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Food Safety Tech

MARCH 17, 2024

In pleading guilty, Vulto and Vulto Creamery admitted that between December 2014 and March 2017, they caused the shipment in interstate commerce of adulterated cheese. According to the CDC, the listeriosis outbreak resulted in eight hospitalizations and two deaths.

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Food Safety News

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

Illnesses started on dates ranging from June 15, 2014, to December 10, 2023. Among people who remembered specific brands, three people who got sick between 2014 and 2022 reported Don Francisco brand queso fresco or cotija. WGS showed that bacteria from sick people’s samples from 2014 to present are closely related genetically.

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Bill Marler

DECEMBER 23, 2021

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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Bill Marler

APRIL 28, 2022

For babies that get infected by this bacteria, up to 80% may die [ JAMA October 8, 2014]. Stop Foodborne Illness (STOP), the “Voice for Safe Food,” needs your voice to protect infants. . In 2022 alone, two infants have died and five more are extremely ill due to a deadly bacteria called Cronobacter sakazakii.

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Food Safety News

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

FDA conducted inspections at the Rizo-López Foods facility and collected food and environmental samples for testing. FDA found the outbreak strain of Listeria on a container where cheeses are kept before they are packaged. Testing identified the outbreak strain of Listeria in the product.

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Bill Marler

DECEMBER 10, 2021

4] However, three months later, at a meeting with the FDA, Jimmy John’s Franchise, LLC changed its position and stated that it would serve only clover sprouts sourced from specific suppliers. [5]. 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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Food Safety Tech

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

Application of Checklists in the Food Industry Checklists are widely used in the food industry. TheUSDA (2014) has a label submission checklist that helps companies avoid common labeling mistakes, and clarifies what is needed. The agency also has a guideline checklist for the cooking of meat and poultry products.

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Food Safety Chat

APRIL 5, 2024

Adonis brand Classic Hummus recalled due to yeast Lakeview Gluten-Free Bakery brand Morning Glory Muffins recalled due to undeclared egg FSIS/FDA Shawnee Milling Company Issues Allergy Alert on Undeclared Milk and Egg in “5lb. Food Club All Purpose Flour”. Geisslers Supermarket Inc.

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Penn State Food Safety Blog

JUNE 13, 2024

A month earlier, FDA inspectors had found peeling paint, barefoot workers and fabricated test results that gave the appearance of product safety at the facility in India where they were made. While the FDA had warned consumers not to use certain CVS eye drops on Oct. There is a loophole, however, for store-brand drugs.

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Food Safety News

JANUARY 16, 2024

He’s been in federal custody since 2015 after a jury convicted him of 31 charges related to the submission of false salmonella testing results to the FDA in his role as a peanut broker for the production plant located in Blakely, GA. To sign up for a free subscription to Food Safety News, click here.)

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Penn State Food Safety Blog

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

The FDA and CDC are investigating illnesses in a multi-year, multistate outbreak of Listeria monocytogenes infections linked to queso fresco and cotija cheeses manufactured by Rizo Lopez Foods, Inc., According to the notice, cases may date back to 2014. In response to that finding, Rizo Lopez Foods, Inc.

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Penn State Food Safety Blog

JULY 31, 2023

Isolates from food, animal, and environmental samples Information from more than 6,000 REPJFX01 isolates from non-human sources has been reported to PulseNet, with the earliest in 2014. Most isolates are from chicken samples collected by the U.S. Although WGS data from U.S.

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Food Quality & Safety

OCTOBER 16, 2023

The EATS Act is the most recent incarnation of legislation initiated by former Representative Steve King (R-IA) to counter state animal protection laws, which was unsuccessful in being included in both the 2014 and 2018 U.S. Farm Bills. In its decision, the U.S.

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Bill Marler

JANUARY 31, 2020

On March 3, 2017, the FDA issued a warning about the presence of E. The FDA confirmed that environmental samples collected at the Sunland facility had a DNA fingerprint that was indistinguishable to the DNA fingerprint found in outbreak associated patients. [6]. The outbreak was declared over on October 16, 2014. coli O157:H7.

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Bill Marler

NOVEMBER 8, 2020

I posted this on Food Safety News just before the US elections. On that happy note, in the past, our civil justice system has held food producers to account. My talk is about the intersection between COVID-19 and food safety, but a South African tragedy is not far from my mind.

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Bill Marler

AUGUST 20, 2022

The FDA is reporting that the likely ingredient is a hybrid romaine iceberg lettuce used on hamburgers. I wonder when the leafy green industry and the FDA will take the challenge that the beef industry and FSIS took and “put me out of business – please.”. 2014 Romaine E. 2014 Romaine E. The Food Safety Law Firm: .

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Bill Marler

NOVEMBER 23, 2019

“When in doubt, throw it out,” says William (Bill) Marler , managing partner at the Food Safety Law Firm, Marler Clark. “It It is past time for the leafy green industry to take the safety of greens, especially romaine lettuce, seriously. This has to stop,” added Marler. What to know about the E. Here is just a sample of E.

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Bill Marler

DECEMBER 11, 2019

In the last few days, the CDC, public health and regulatory officials in several states, and FDA reported that they are investigating a multistate outbreak of E. In November 2019 , the CDC notified the FDA of this illness cluster in mid-September 2019 and the agency promptly initiated a traceback investigation. coli, I would say soon.

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Modern Restaurant Management

OCTOBER 29, 2020

The FDA (Food and Drug Administration) of the United States considers the lemon as a food without fat, without saturated fat, very low in sodium, without cholesterol, low in calories and with a high content of Vitamin C that contributes to the normal functioning of the immune system.

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Bill Marler

JANUARY 20, 2022

The FDA and state and local regulatory officials traced the romaine lettuce to 23 farms and 36 fields in the Yuma growing region. The FDA, along with CDC and state partners, started an environmental assessment in the Yuma growing region and collected samples of water, soil, and manure. WGS showed that the E. Leafy Greens. Multistate.

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Bill Marler

APRIL 9, 2022

Helena Bottemiller Evich’s well done piece in Politico “The FDA’s Food Failure,” that hit the internet very early this morning, is a stunning, but not surprising, indictment of our government’s food safety failures that transcends political parties and administrations. WGS showed that the E.

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Modern Restaurant Management

MAY 5, 2020

“Since 2014, Plate IQ has been working to help restaurants succeed,” said Bhavuk Kaul, CEO at Plate IQ. “Prevention is the best protection,” said Mandy Sedlak, EcoSure manager for Food Safety and Public Health. Plate IQ is currently partnering with HotSchedules, PayActiv and ICR. Tabit is Ramping Up.

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Modern Restaurant Management

JUNE 14, 2020

In addition, the wrap is compliant with FDA food packaging regulations and is sustainable.” GS1 Standards support food safety in the supply chain by providing one consistent way for businesses to communicate information about products, leading to faster, more efficient food recalls.

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