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FDA Issues Warning Letter to SC Processor for Continued Listeria Presence

Penn State Food Safety Blog

monocytogenes isolates obtained from USDA FSIS environmental samples in 2018; one (1) L. monocytogenes isolates obtained from Buffalo Style Chicken Dip collected by USDA FSIS in 2018; and one (1) L. link] Discover Fresh Foods, LLC MARCS-CMS 677021 — JUNE 26, 2024 Recipient: Mr. Andrew Smart CEO Discover Fresh Foods, LLC 600 S.

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2024, food safety is in the hands of the government, industry, and the consumer

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While the changes may sound like Jones and Califf are merely shuffling the deck of bureaucracy within the agency’s food operations, I am hopeful that the changes will make a difference.  From 1998 through 2018, 202 outbreaks and 2,645 outbreak-associated illnesses occurred from drinking raw milk.

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FDA Cites California Seafood Processor After Inspection Yields Listeria Positive Environmental Samples

Penn State Food Safety Blog

Most notably, one of these strains was identified in twenty-eight (28) isolates and matched four (4) clinical isolates (2017, 2018, 2019, and 2023), indicating that this strain is known to cause human illness, however, no epidemiological data was available to link the clinical isolate to your facility." Kim CEO Ocean Group Inc.

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Warning Letter to Cheese Operation Highlights Insufficient Cleaning Items That Support Harborage of Listeria

Penn State Food Safety Blog

Sharon Tomaselli Co-Owners Cooperstown Cheese Company, LLC 107 Oxbow Road Milford, NY 13807-1131 United States Issuing Office: Division of Human and Animal Food Operations East I United States WARNING LETTER CMS # 667551 11/24/2023 Dear Mr. Sweitzer and Ms. These are repeat observations from the 2017, 2018 and 2020 FDA inspections.

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Minnesota Raw Pet Food Company Cited for Inadequate PAA Process Resulting in Pathogens in Finished Product

Penn State Food Safety Blog

FDA Warning Letter [link] Agila Corporation dba Woody’s Pet Food Deli MARCS-CMS 670835 — JANUARY 26, 2024 Recipient: Enrique A. Palma Owner Agila Corporation dba Woody’s Pet Food Deli 105 W. If you have questions you may contact Ms. Sanger at email Lauren.Sanger@fda.hhs.gov. 342(a)(1). 2 See section 402(a)(4) of the Act, 21 U.S.C. §

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Lancaster Country (PA) Bakery Issued Warning Letter for

Penn State Food Safety Blog

On June 17, 2015, FDA issued its final determination that PHOs are no longer GRAS for any use in human food and set a compliance period of three years to allow industry time to either reformulate products without PHOs and/or submit a food additive petition to FDA to permit specific uses of PHOs.

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What is it with Cantaloupe and Bacteria?

Bill Marler

June 2018 – Caito Foods recalled fresh melon Saturday after the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reported a multistate Salmonella outbreak that has sickened 60 people, sending 32 to hospitals.