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2023 Update on state food safety legislation

Food Safety News

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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Are Food Safety Issues Getting Worse? No, Not Really.

Penn State Food Safety Blog

This week, I was asked by a reporter why food safety issues are getting worse.whether that be recalls or outbreaks. For example, Salad Recall Update as FDA Sets Highest Risk Level, ad the article states, "On August 7, the recall was classified by the FDA as Class I, which is the highest risk level.

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CA Company Recalls Walnuts After Testing Finds Listeria

Penn State Food Safety Blog

These Walnuts were distributed to food bank warehouses in Texas and Arizona which further distribute to other distribution centers that can go to consumers, or smaller foods banks, school lunch programs, shelters, or prison food systems. link] Stutz Packing Co.

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Oregon Establishment Continues to Update Recall of RTE Meat and Poultry Products

Penn State Food Safety Blog

On October 17, a list of schools were updated that received the RTE meat products. The release stated, "The products that went to these schools were not part of USDA’s National School Lunch and Breakfast Programs; schools also purchase food directly from other vendors. Food and Drug Administration (FDA).

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Another week of food recalls.

Food Safety Chat

A preliminary list of schools that received products that include BrucePac recalled ready-to-eat (RTE) meat and poultry have been added. The products that went to these schools were not part of USDA’s National School Lunch and Breakfast Programs; schools also purchase food directly from other vendors.

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Who should be on this Year’s Food Safety Naughty or Nice List?

Bill Marler

Here is one we at Food Safety News put together (with input from readers) in 2009. Department of Agriculture Under Secretary for Food Safety. NAUGHTY : Some raw milk, small and sustainable agriculture advocates who confused the entire food safety debate by making and circulating false claims about the bills.

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Trump to Pick RFK Jr. as Health Secretary

Food Safety Tech

FDA is an agency within the Department of Health and Human Services and consists of nine Center-level organizations and thirteen Headquarter (HQ) Offices including the newly reorganized Human Foods Program headed up by Jim Jones. Some of his food and agriculture ideas plans share the same pseudoscience as Kennedy’s views on vaccines.