DeLauro Urges OMB to Finalize Two Food Rules By News Desk  Congresswoman Rosa DeLauro (D-CT) is urging the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) to finalize two pending food safety rules. DeLauro wrote to OMB director Shaun Donovan Monday, expressing her concern that if the mechanically tenderized beef rule and a rule regarding added solutions in meat and poultry products are not completed before the end... Continue Reading
UK Retailer Introduces "Campylobacter Challenge" By News Desk  Major British retailer Marks & Spencer has introduced a plan to take on the poultry industry’s longstanding problems with illnesses related to Campylobacter, a foodborne bacterium that causes diarrhea, vomiting, abdominal pain and fever. In August, the U.K. Food Standards Agency reported that it found Campylobacter on 59 percent of fresh, whole store-bought chicken. Campylobacter... Continue Reading
FDA Finalizes Menu Labeling for Restaurants, Vending Machines By Lydia Zuraw  Calorie counts are coming to menus and vending machines near you. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration announced today that it has finalized its two rules requiring that calorie information be listed on menus and menu boards in chain restaurants, similar retail food establishments and vending machines with 20 or more locations. “Strikingly, Americans eat and... Continue Reading
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A Washington state creamery has issued a voluntary recall of one lot of its whole milk yogurt because of faulty data recording during pasteurization. Flying Cow Creamery of Rochester, WA recalled the lot of its whole milk yogurt after a routing inspection by the Washington State Department of Agriculture (WSDA) revealed that proper time and... 
The marijuana edibles issue is being dropped like a hot potato into the newly split Colorado Legislature after an advisory group's mandate ran out before it could come to any kind of consensus. It will pit the state's nearly one-year-old, cash-rich recreational marijuana industry against public health and anti-marijuana group Smart Colorado. The last chance... 
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