Nutrition Bars Recalled for Salmonella Risk By News Desk  San Diego-based Perfect Bar & Company is recalling specific lots of its Peanut Butter and Cranberry Crunch nutrition bar products due to a Salmonella risk. The recalled products have packaging and/or wrappers with the expiration date and lot codes listed below. The recalled product has reached the distributor, retail and end-user level. While no illnesses... Continue Reading
The Top 10 Food-Safety News Stories of 2014 By Dan Flynn  The top 10 food-safety news stories for 2014, as chosen for the sixth consecutive year by the editors of Food Safety News, were announced today. According to the Internet news site, here are this year's most important food-safety stories: 1. The U.S. Department of Justice backs up federal food-safety agencies, including USDA and FDA, with unprecedented... Continue Reading
2014 in Review: Animal Antibiotics By Lydia Zuraw  Food Safety News wrote a lot about antibiotic resistance this year — particularly the debate surrounding the Food and Drug Administration's (FDA) plan to phase out the use of certain antibiotics in food animals, introduced in December 2013, and conversations sparked by the 16-month outbreak of multi-drug-resistant Salmonella Heidelberg linked to Foster Farms-brand chicken that... Continue Reading
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A relatively large number of food processors received notices from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in the agency’s latest round of warning letters. Four seafood processors were notified about inadequacies in their Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Points (HACCP) plans. A StarKist facility in Ecuador had “significant deviations” from their HACCP plans for canned... 
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