Fresh Curd Products Recalled for Potential Listeria Contamination By News Desk  Global Garlic Inc. of Miami, FL, is recalling De Mi Pais products: Cuajada Fresca (Fresh Curd) 12 oz. and Cuajada Olanchana (Fresh Curd) 12 oz., because it has the potential to be contaminated with Listeria Monocytogenes, The recalled products were distributed in Florida, Louisiana, Tennessee, and North Carolina from April 1 through Oct. 14, 2014, to... Continue Reading
Small-Scale and Organic Farmers Facing FSMA Comment Deadline By Cookson Beecher  Small-scale and/or organic farmers are being alerted to the impending deadline of Monday, Dec. 15, for submitting comments on the Food and Drug Administration's revisions to the proposed food-safety rules in the Food Safety Modernization Act. Signed into law on Jan. 4, 2011, FSMA focuses on preventing foodborne illnesses instead of merely reacting to them.... Continue Reading
19 Recent Salmonella Cases Linked to MA Restaurant By News Desk  State and local health department officials are investigating 19 Salmonella cases linked to a restaurant in Holyoke, MA. Brian Fitzgerald, Holyoke's health director, told a local TV station that officials were trying to figure out why people were apparently sickened after eating at the Delaney House in Holyoke between Nov. 11 and 15, 2014. Investigative reports from... Continue Reading
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Del Monte Fresh Produce N.A., Inc. ("Del Monte Fresh") announced Wednesday the voluntary recall of fresh-cut fruit products containing Gala red apples grown in Pennsylvania. The affected products were distributed to a limited number of customers in a few states in the northeast U.S. and are being recalled because these apples have the potential to... 
The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) this year reviewed almost half of the so-called "certifying agents" for its organic program and ended up citing 62 percent for failing to correctly enforce certification requirements on organic farms they audit, the Wall Street Journal reported Wednesday. The nation's largest daily newspaper stated that the organic farming boom... 
The Washington State Department of Health announced Wednesday that several Washington state shellfish companies are recalling molluscan shellfish harvested from a portion of the southern shoreline of Hammersley Inlet near Shelton, WA, from Nov. 10 to Dec. 5, 2014, because they may be contaminated with Norovirus. These products were shipped to multiple retail locations nationwide.... 
The question of how the U.S. Food and Drug Administration should approach the regulation of genetically engineered (GE) food — and particularly its labeling, or lack thereof — was the topic of a hearing by the House Energy & Commerce Committee on Wednesday. The biggest question of the day: Should a federal law be passed... 
It might be easy to dismiss the latest study about spiking one's blood pressure by drinking soy milk from cans lined with bisphenol A (more commonly known as BPA). After all, serious hypertension is more likely to occur from the sodium contained in whatever food or beverage is in the can. But the new Korean... 
Projections of the rise of antimicrobial resistance (AMR) paint a grim picture for what could happen to the world's economy if the problem is left unchecked. Research commissioned by the U.K.'s Review on Antimicrobial Resistance show that a continued rise in resistance would, by 2050, lead to 10 million deaths every year and a reduction... 
A 3-year old boy has died and four other children have fallen ill in an E. coli and Cryptosporidium outbreak linked to raw milk sold by a company based in Victoria, Australia. The milk, Mountain View Organic Bath Milk, was labeled as being “for cosmetic use only” and “not for human consumption,” as well as... 
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