"A Voice in Favor of the Food Safety Modernization Act"
"In 2006, I almost died after eating spinach contaminated with E. coli. I spent nearly a month in and out of multiple emergency rooms and urgent care facilities. When I was able to return home, I had...
View Article"Spud Group Requests FSMA Exemption"
"The potato industry has drafted a guidance document to help potato growers and handlers meet the industry's best practices. The National Potato Council argues such voluntary efforts should be...
View Article"NH's Kuster Asks for More Time on Food Safety"
"New Hampshire Rep. Annie Kuster wants the Food and Drug Administration to extend the comment period for sweeping food safety rules that farmers say could drive them out of business."
View Article"Group Wants FDA to Mirror its Food-Safety Program"
"Leafy greens growers in California and Arizona are telling federal regulators to adopt their food safety standards so that growers in other states wonaEUR(TM)t be operating under weaker federal rules."
View Article"State Knew Chobani Yogurt was Tainted Months before Recall, FDA Says"
"The Idaho Department of Agriculture saw moldy yogurt during a routine inspection at Chobani two months before the company issued a voluntary recall, says a U.S. Food and Drug Administration report...
View Article"FDA Inspects Just 2 Percent of Imported Food Shipments"
"According to a recent Food and Drug Administration report, FDA regulators inspected less than two percent of the food shipments that were imported to the U.S. in the 2012 fiscal year."
View Article"FDA to Make Food Safety Rules Farmer-Friendlier"
"The Food and Drug Administration says it will revise sweeping new food safety rules proposed earlier this year after farmers complained the rules could hurt business."
View Article"Multistate Outbreak of Salmonella Stanley Infections Linked to Raw Cashew...
"CDC is collaborating with public health officials in several states and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to investigate a multistate outbreak of Salmonella Stanley infections. Results from...
View ArticleWSB-TV: Parents Storm Capitol Hill for Safer Food
Frustrated parents gathered on Capitol Hill demanding safer food Wednesday. Jacqueline Fell talked with parents who had to watch their kids get sick from food that may very well be sitting in your...
View ArticleThe Oregonian: Portland Cop Lobbying Congress for Food Safety Funding
A Portland cop turned advocate is back in the U.S. capital this week, urging Congress to support funding for a crackdown on food safety. Officer Peter Hurley has met with two Oregon lawmakers, and has...
View ArticleRaleigh News & Observer: Girl Fights to Save Others from Foodborne Illness
Dana Dziadul has been fighting since she was 3 years old, but donaEUR(TM)t bother telling her mother. First, Dana, now 16, was fighting for her life after getting debilitatingly ill from bad cantaloupe...
View ArticleFood Safety Advocates Share Their Views on Farm Bill
As Congress and the President completed the farm bill in February, victims of foodborne illness and their families wrote letters to the editor applauding federal leaders for leaving out proposals that...
View ArticleChild's Salmonella Experience Drives Mother's Action On Food Safety
Gabrielle Meunier is a resident of South Burlington, whose 7-year-old son became ill from a salmonella infection in 2008. She is in Washington DC this week to meet with members of the Vermont...
View ArticleIllness Linked to Crave Brothers Soft Cheese Caused by Unsanitary Conditions,...
An illness outbreak from a Wisconsin cheesemaker that was linked to one death and a miscarriage likely was caused by substantial sanitation deficiencies in the cheese-making process, a new report from...
View ArticleThe Dangers in Our Food Supply Are Worse Than You Think
All his life, Paul Schwarz had been active and healthy. When his family imagined the various ways that the decorated veteran of World War II might eventually die, they never imagined that the cause...
View ArticleTroubles at Serpe, Roos Invite FDA Scrutiny
Repeated food safety problems at Elsmere's iconic Serpe & Sons Bakery and far worse health violations discovered at the shuttered Roos Foods cheese plant in Kenton are the latest examples of a...
View ArticleThe Oregonian: Trader Joe's Named in E. coli Lawsuits Traced to Prepared Salads
Six people on the West Coast are suing Trader Joe's over an E. coli outbreak that sent them to emergency rooms and caused one to suffer kidney failure.
View ArticleWashington Post: Efforts to Zap Bacteria in Food are Slow to Catch Hold
The nuclear energy that Frank Benso uses to kill bacteria in fruit and oysters has won widespread support from public health officials and scientists, who say it could turn the tide against the plague...
View ArticleCriminal Charges Filed in Food Safety Case Against Iowa Egg Farm
An Iowa-based egg producer and two of its executives are facing federal criminal charges in connection with a 2010 salmonella outbreak that led to the recall of more than a half-billion eggs in the...
View ArticleFully fund food safety
Contaminated spinach. Peppers. Peanut butter. Eggs. The long list of foods linked to serious, sometimes deadly, outbreaks in the first decade of this new century was a steady reminder that the last...
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