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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Bill Marler

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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Modern Restaurant Management

JUNE 8, 2020

Food safety sanitation procedures are more important than ever to combat the novel coronavirus. These procedures must be added to your current food safety policies built upon the 2017 FDA Food Code recommendation for the BIG 6 pathogens. If they have a temperature of 100.4 Invest in Digital Tools.

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Bill Marler

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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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 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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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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Food Safety News

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

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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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

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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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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Bill Marler

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

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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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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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. 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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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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Food Safety News

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 News

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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Food Safety News

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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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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Food Quality & Safety

DECEMBER 15, 2023

In 2017, 90% of the seafood eaten by Americans came from other countries, and many feel it’s time for American consumers to eat fish and seafood produced and farmed here. While the field of fish and seafood farming may be ancient, food safety experts agree that it must be held to exacting modern standards and regulation.

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Food Safety News

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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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. Griswold T.,

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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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Penn State Food Safety Blog

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 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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Penn State Food Safety Blog

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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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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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. The recall was initiated in March of 2017 and then expanded to include all raw milk cheese a few weeks later.

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Bill Marler

JANUARY 24, 2020

Still, it should have been the wake-up call that mobilized the government to defeat this threat to food safety. Since 2017, there are nearly 500 documented victims and six deaths from leafy green vegetables contaminated by E. The FDA has called little attention to the surge in E. There have been four E. Consider: ?

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Penn State Food Safety Blog

AUGUST 15, 2023

In 2017, Ocean Fathoms started to submerge specially designed crates of its wine in the channel, and when the bottles were retrieved 12 months later, they were sold for up to $500 each. Food and Drug Administration (FDA). According to Santa Barbara County District Attorney John T.

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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., CDC investigated this outbreak in 2017 and 2021. In response to that finding, Rizo Lopez Foods, Inc.

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Penn State Food Safety Blog

DECEMBER 27, 2023

FDA issued a Warning Letter to a NY Cheese processor. In brief, they were found to have an ongoing Listeria issue as identified in 2 023 recall situation for Listeria as well as an recall in 2017. Additionally, FDA collected environmental samples (i.e., Of the positive findings, one (1) of the L. monocytogenes. monocytogenes.

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Bill Marler

JANUARY 31, 2020

In March 2017, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and several state health departments attributed a multi-state outbreak of Shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli O157:H7 to I.M. On March 7, 2017, The SoyNut Butter Company recalled all varieties of I.M. Healthy SoyNut Butters and all varieties of I.M. However, I.M.

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