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DECEMBER 27, 2019

According to the FDA , Sprouts Unlimited of Marion Iowa is recalling clover spouts in 4 oz packages because it may be contaminated with Escherichia coli O103 bacteria ( E. The affected batches of clover sprouts were distributed to Hy Vee Food stores, Fareway Food Stores and Jimmy John’s restaurants in Iowa. coli O103 ).

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OCTOBER 12, 2023

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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Food Safety Magazine

AUGUST 15, 2023

a longtime member of Food Safety Magazine’s ( FSM ’s) Editorial Advisory Board (EAB), a 2017 recipient of FSM ’s Distinguished Service Award, and a renowned microbiologist for the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), passed away. On July 28, 2023, Reginald (Reggie) W. Bennett, M.Sc. ,

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APRIL 21, 2020

California-Based Company Agrees to Pay Largest-Ever Fine in a Food-Safety Case and Implement a Comprehensive Food Safety Compliance Program. Chipotle also agreed to pay the $25 million criminal fine, the largest ever in a food safety case, as part of the DPA. Damn, this is a significant fine.

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OCTOBER 21, 2022

Food safety professionals cannot conceal potentially dangerous problems from customers or government regulators,” said Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General Brian M. Burdelik, FDA Office of Criminal Investigations Chicago Field Office. Boynton, head of the Justice Department’s Civil Division. “The

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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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NOVEMBER 6, 2022

Food Safety does not take weekends off. Sick people’s samples were collected from August 6, 2017, to August 5, 2022. This suggests that people in this outbreak got sick from the same food. Illnesses started on dates ranging from July 26, 2016, to October 19, 2021.

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Food Safety News

JANUARY 21, 2024

The FDA’s largest reorganization in history, involving about 8,000 employees, is far more than just “moving some boxes around.” The proposed changes and updates to an FDA-wide reorganization plan have been out for external reviews and clearances since Dec. 17, 2022, ordered work to begin that May on the FDA-wide reorganization plan.

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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

JANUARY 1, 2024

Business owners have 15 days to respond to FDA warning letters. Cooperstown Cheese Company LLC Milford, NY A food firm in New York is on notice from the FDA for serious violations of the Current Good Manufacturing Practice, Hazard Analysis, and Risk-Based Preventive Controls for Human Food regulation.

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SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

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. What about food safety? To sign up for a free subscription to Food Safety News, click here.)

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MARCH 5, 2024

Following an investigation by the FDA’s Office of Criminal Investigations, the misdemeanor charge of Introducing Adulterated Food into Interstate Commerce was filed on Jan. In March 2017, after the U.S. To sign up for a free subscription to Food Safety News, click here.) 30, 2024, in the U.S. Attorney Michael F.

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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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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.”. 2017 Leafy Greens E. 2017 Leafy Greens E. 2006 Lettuce E.

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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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NOVEMBER 7, 2022

Colbert’s lawyer, Bill Marler, based in Washington and focused exclusively on food safety cases, is representing the Lambert family and several others, including Zachary Nitz. Food and Drug Administration has not done more. The FDA has called livestock a “persistent reservoir” of E. Nitz contracted an E. coli outbreak.

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SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

Here is an overview of each bill: SB 577 —Local Food Regulations and the Local Food Regulation Registry SB 577 provides clarity to food establishments and licensing authorities regarding the enforceability of health regulations. This is similar to language in the 2017 FDA Food Code, Section 6-201.17(B):

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DECEMBER 2, 2019

The Food and Drug Administration and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention are recommending that consumers avoid romaine from the Salinas region. coli strain (O157:H7) causing the new outbreak is genetically indistinguishable from last year’s and another one in late 2017. Remarkably, the specific E. But even more should be done.

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Food Safety News

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS). The total number of FDA food recalls fell by 14.4 Food and Drug Administration (FDA) during Q3, but those under USDA rose. The FDA issued 26 food and drink recalls in October 2023, down 40.9

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NOVEMBER 8, 2023

— OPINION — By Julie Chapon, Co-founder and CEO of Yuka Food safety regulations remain a critical concern globally, particularly as consumers become increasingly conscious and concerned about the ingredients present in the products they consume. While the U.S. Similarly, certain growth hormones and antibiotics commonly used in U.S.

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Food Safety Tech

MARCH 17, 2024

Johannes Vulto, a former raw milk cheese manufacturer and his company, Vulto Creamery LLC, pleaded guilty to charges related to cheese that was linked to a 2016-2017 outbreak of listeriosis, the U.S. Department of Justic announced earlier this month.

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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. CDC investigated this outbreak in 2017 and 2021. FDA initiated an on-site inspection at Rizo Lopez Foods. Marler Clark, Inc.,

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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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NOVEMBER 12, 2023

Business owners have 15 days to respond to FDA warning letters. A food firm in Georgia is on notice from the FDA after an inspection at its egg processing facility found the presence of Salmonella, flies, rodents and more violations of federal regulation. 2019, FDA detected Salmonella Enteritidis from house (redacted).

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OCTOBER 30, 2023

This is the company’s fourth recall since 2017. The FDA sent a warning letter to the company in 2020 after finding Salmonella, E. To sign up for a free subscription to Food Safety News, click here) coli and Listeria in its plant. Some people get infected without getting sick or showing any symptoms.

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Penn State Food Safety Blog

JULY 26, 2024

The FDA released their report for the "Microbiological Surveillance Sampling: FY17-21 Fresh Herbs (Cilantro, Basil & Parsley) Assignment". In this project, FDA completed its collection and testing in September 2021, having obtained 1,383 samples in all. The FDA detected Salmonella spp. And since 2017, the U.S.

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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. Here is a bit(e) of history: In 2017 in Canada, a total, of 42 cases of E. Since 2017 there been over 500 people in the U.S. coli, I would say soon. This strain of E.

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NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Eight times since 2017, growers of leafy greens, especially those producing Romaine lettuce , have been rocked by outbreaks of E. With more care or just plain luck, the private Leafy Green Marketing Agreement and the public Food and Drug Administration are experiencing a break in E. coli O157:H7. Coli outbreaks from their green fields.

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Penn State Food Safety Blog

JULY 23, 2024

FDA issued a Warning Letter to Discover Fresh Foods, LLC of Greenville, SC, a manufacturer of refrigerated ready-to-eat (RTE) dips and spreads. FDA laboratory analysis of sample #1242488 also found three (3) out of the 99 swabs were positive for Listeria innocua (L. USDA FSIS notified FDA L. monocytogenes. monocytogenes.

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DECEMBER 8, 2019

Based on available traceback data, the FDA requested that industry voluntarily withdraw romaine lettuce grown in Salinas, California from the market and is requesting that the industry withhold distribution of romaine for the remainder of the growing season in Salinas. Illnesses started on dates ranging from September 24 to November 18.

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DECEMBER 16, 2019

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.

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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. Griswold T.,

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AUGUST 15, 2024

FDA issued a Warning Letter to High Quality Organics, a ready-to-eat (RTE) spice facility, located in Reno, NV. The company did not conduct a reanalysis of your food safety plan when needed after Ground Organic Parsley, lot # 62868 and lot # 63196, tested positive for the pesticide Chlorpyrifos ((b)(4)).

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Food Safety Tech

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

Western Michigan University (2017) has an Evaluation Checklist Project with a number of excellent resources showing how to develop checklists for evaluating programs and projects. In 2020, FDA published an Employee Health and Food Safety Checklist in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Not the other way around.

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MAY 20, 2024

FDA issued a Warning Letter to a California seafood processor who makes ready-to-eat (RTE) salmon and tuna. As part of the inspection, FDA conducted sampling and analysis of the environmental samples (1195789 and 1239088) confirmed that thirty-four (34) of one hundred (100) environmental swabs were positive for pathogenic L.

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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

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

Most recently recalled products were sold nationwide under these brands and at deli counters: Campesino Casa Cardenas Don Francisco Dos Ranchitos El Huache Food City La Ordena Rio Grande Rizo Bros San Carlos Santa Maria Tio Francisco 365 Whole Foods Market “CDC investigated this outbreak in 2017 and 2021.

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