Food Safety News

OCTOBER 5, 2023

E ditor’s Note: With permission, Food Safety News today posts the 2023 Update on State Food Safety Legislature by Doug Farquhar, JD, Government Affairs Director for the National Environmental Health Association (NEHA). The following table summarizes bills related to food safety introduced by state legislation in 2023.

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DECEMBER 27, 2019

Sprouts have long been a problem as my friend Doug has repeatedly warned on Barfblog : Kate Bernot of The Take Out wrote , “If you ask anyone in food safety, ‘What is the one food you will not eat?’ I’ve asked him whether food-safety fears about sprouts—those tiny, crunchy squiggles in your salad or sandwich—are well-founded.

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Bill Marler

JANUARY 24, 2022

In March of this year in will be 4 years since I boarded a flight from Seattle to Johannesburg (20 plus hour flight) to speak at a food safety conference just days after the South African health authorities announced that a Listeria outbreak had been linked to a product named polony manufactured by the largest food manufacturer in Africa.

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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). Spinach, 2006, 199 cases, 71% female.

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Food Safety News

AUGUST 23, 2023

In an expanded position, he will fill the voids left at the FDA by the February departure of Frank Yiannas, who was the Deputy Commission for the then Food Policy Office, and the May retirement of Susan Mayne, who headed the Office of Food Safety and Applied Nutrition. food supply. food supply.

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Bill Marler

AUGUST 13, 2022

From 2016 to 2020 the county only saw twenty-seven cases altogether. coli: Marler Clark, The Food Safety Law Firm , is the nation’s leading law firm representing victims of E. Ohio: According to Wood County Department of Health, sixteen people in Wood County, Bolling Green, Ohio area have come down with E.

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Bill Marler

OCTOBER 21, 2022

In pleading guilty, Chermala admitted that between June 2016 and June 2018, he directed subordinates to not report certain information to Kellogg’s about conditions at the Gridley facility. Boynton, head of the Justice Department’s Civil Division. “The Burdelik, FDA Office of Criminal Investigations Chicago Field Office.

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Bill Marler

NOVEMBER 6, 2022

Food Safety does not take weekends off. Illnesses started on dates ranging from July 26, 2016, to October 19, 2021. Fresh Express Salad Listeria Outbreak: A total of 10 people infected with the outbreak strain of Listeria monocytogenes were reported from eight states.

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Bill Marler

NOVEMBER 19, 2023

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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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). To sign up for a free subscription to Food Safety News, click here.)

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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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Food Safety News

JANUARY 5, 2024

In the Third Consent Decree, Miller agreed that USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Service has access to all his properties. The federal litigation over meat inspection and food safety, dated back to 2016 and concluded in 2023 with the Consent Decree remaining in effect.

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Bill Marler

AUGUST 28, 2023

I new journal article on the polony tragedy was just published: “Cost estimation of listeriosis (Listeria monocytogenes) occurrence in South Africa in 2017 and its food safety implications.” Productivity losses attributed to listeriosis for humans and export value losses for food processors were in excess of US$ 15 million.

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Bill Marler

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

Deputy Under Secretary for Food Safety. Food Safety and Inspection Service. Food Safety and Inspection Service. Designing Salmonella performance standard to more closely align with the goal of reducing foodborne illness is fundamental to improving food safety. Sites, 2016-2019.

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Food Safety News

OCTOBER 8, 2023

Based on a previous scientific assessment by the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA), the limits were endorsed by EU member states. Further work in 2016 involving industry and different meat products also concluded there was a possibility to lower the maximum levels of nitrites.

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Penn State Food Safety Blog

JULY 10, 2024

The owner of a NY cheese company was sentenced this week for his company's failure to protect product from Listeria contamination which resulted in an Listeria outbreak in 2016 thru 2017. This outbreak resulted in the death of two people and hospitalization of two others. Vulto Creamery of Walton, NY has been shut down.

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Bill Marler

OCTOBER 28, 2020

Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (USDA-FSIS) reported that they are investigating a multistate outbreak of Listeria monocytogenes infections. Late Friday, the CDC, public health and regulatory officials in several states, and the U.S.

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Food Safety News

OCTOBER 12, 2023

This year’s findings indicate continued presence of food safety concerns linked to melons from the Southwest Indiana growing region,” according to the Oct. 12 outbreak notice from the Food and Drug Administration. To sign up for a free subscription to Food Safety News, click here. )

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Modern Restaurant Management

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

Manufacturers of foods generally considered to be healthy but not low in fat (e.g., So the FDA in 2016 began the public process of considering a new definition for “healthy.” nuts, avocados, eggs, salmon) found it hard to meet that definition. The FDA has also explored a “healthy” labeling icon or symbol.

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Food Safety Magazine

OCTOBER 5, 2023

The initial version of the Food Safety Preventive Controls Alliance (FSPCA) Preventive Controls for Human Food curriculum was developed and implemented in 2016. Since that time, FDA has developed several guidance documents to assist the industry in developing food safety plans.

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Food Safety News

JANUARY 27, 2024

The attorney general has charged Miller with violating several state food safety laws. Miller was the defendant in a federal civil action brought after 2016 by the Department of Justice (DOJ) on behalf of USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS). 4 under a search warrant tested positive for Listeria.

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Agroknow

JUNE 17, 2022

Food recalls are the most critical situation that could befall you as a food safety professional. Among the many consequences of recalls, I could highlight putting people’s health in jeopardy , lowering consumer trust in the food industry, and making the food supply chain look unreliable and untrustworthy.

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Bill Marler

MARCH 8, 2024

Food Safety News. Food Safety News. Outbreak of Escherichia coli O157 Infections Associated with Goat Dairy Farm Visits — Connecticut, 2016. Agritourism and Kidding Season: A Large Outbreak of HumanShiga Toxin-Producing Escherichia coli O157 (STEC O157) Infections Linked to a Goat Dairy Farm—Connecticut, 2016.

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Food Safety Tech

JUNE 27, 2023

Food safety is set to gain national prominence with the release of “Poisoned: The Dirty Truth About Your Food.” Coli outbreak, and also in terms of my work with USDA and the FDA and my role as an academic who speaks on food safety and food safety policy. I had no idea this is still an issue.”

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Food Safety News

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

The attorney general has charged Miller with violating several state food safety laws. Miller was last a defendant in a federal civil action brought after 2016 by the Department of Justice (DOJ) on behalf of USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS).

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Food Safety News

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

To sign up for a free subscription to Food Safety News, click here) coli Outbreak and Recall: As of February 16, 2024, a total of 10 people infected with the outbreak strain of E. coli have been reported from four states – California, Utah, Colorado and Texas.

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Bill Marler

DECEMBER 27, 2021

Food safety interventions on farms, such as vaccines targeting harmful serotypes, have likely contributed to meaningful reductions in product contamination and human illness. Compliance With Recommended Food Safety Practices in Television Cooking Shows. coli) or subtracted from a variable list of outbreak serotypes.

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Food Safety News

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

Started OPDC in 2000 [link] Changed name to Raw Farm LLC in 2020 Organic Pastures Dairy Company Recalls and Outbreaks September 2006 Raw Milk E.coli Outbreak: 6 ill/2 HUS [link] September 2007 Raw Cream Listeria Recall [link] December 2007 Raw Milk Campylobacter Outbreak: 8 ill [link] September 2008 Raw Cream Campylobacter Recall [link] (..)

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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. FSMA’s basic tenet is a proactive approach to food safety.

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Food Safety News

JANUARY 21, 2024

A “Unified Human Food Program(HFP)” functional risk model is at the center of the reorganization. FDA will manage public health risks through three areas of focus: • nutrition, microbiological food safety, and chemical safety. Califf previously served as Commissioner of Food and Drugs from February 2016 to January 2017.

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Food Safety News

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

Notably, Salmonella isolates from two sediment subsamples and two water subsamples collected during this investigation were found to be genetically related by WGS to clinical isolates from 2016 and 2018 foodborne illness outbreaks, Salmonella Muenchen and Salmonella Montevideo, respectively, associated with consumption of sprouts.

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Food Safety Tech

DECEMBER 5, 2023

He is tasked with reorganizing the agency to develop better coordination among the multiple departments involved in the regulation of human foods in the U.S., As the first Deputy Commissioner for Human Foods, I am deeply committed to upholding and executing this vision. as well as allocating resources to better protect consumer.

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Food Safety News

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Congressional hearings regarding the infant formula crisis revealed the internal failures at the FDA regarding food safety and a tangled chain of command system. Before being tapped to lead the food side of the FDA, Jones worked at the Environmental Protection Agency. food supply. Of course, many challenges lay ahead.

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Modern Restaurant Management

AUGUST 9, 2021

Modern Restaurant Management ((MRM) asked Lindsey Yeakle, Gluten-Free Food Service (GFFS) Program Manager, Food Safety at Gluten Intolerance Group (GIG), what restaurants need to know about gluten-free options. Yeakle has a culinary history working at four-star and four-diamond rated restaurants.

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Food Safety News

JANUARY 8, 2024

As he has in the past, Amos Miller has turned to his supporters for financial assistance as he finds compliance with food safety regulations troublesome. The basis of the order was an affidavit from Sheri Morris, the Department of Agriculture’s acting food safety director. 4 under a warrant signed on Jan. Dennis Commins.

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Food Safety Tech

AUGUST 23, 2023

Per the FDA’s announcement , Jones, in this new executive position will lead the charge in setting and advancing priorities for a proposed unified Human Foods Program (HFP). food supply in the face of climate change and globalization, as well as nutrition to help reduce diet-related diseases and improve health equity. food supply.

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Food Safety News

MARCH 4, 2024

The risk of Salmonella Enteritidis from eggs in New Zealand remains low despite an outbreak, according to the country’s food safety agency. The original risk profile for Salmonella in and on chicken eggs in New Zealand was published in 2004, with updates in 2011 and 2016.

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