Food Safety News - January 6, 2015 Kroger Brand Caramel Apples Added Into Happy Apples Expanded Recall

Kroger Brand Caramel Apples Added Into Happy Apples Expanded Recall By News Desk Happy Apple Company of Washington, MO, is expanding its recall of caramel apples to include Kroger brand caramel apples produced by Happy Apple Company with a best use by date between Sept. 15 and Nov. 18, 2014, because the product has the potential to be contaminated with Listeria monocytogenes. Kroger brand caramel apples produced by Happy Apple Company... Continue Reading Animal Cruelty Complaint Filed Against MN Hen Slaughter Plant By Lydia Zuraw Complaints of inhumane slaughter were leveled at a hen slaughter plant in Butterfield, MN, over the weekend. In an investigation into Butterfield Foods Co., a member of the Humane Society of the United States (HSUS) spent 57 days working undercover at Butterfield's plant for slaughtering "spent hens," which are egg-laying chickens deemed no longer commercially... Continue Reading KS Prison Inspections Show Ongoing Food-Safety Violations By News Desk “Filthy” kitchen facilities, inadequate hand-washing practices, and bugs in light fixtures were repeatedly noted in food-safety inspections of Kansas prisons conducted between January 2013 and July 2014, according to recent news reports. The monthly and sometimes less-frequent inspections were conducted by the Kansas Department of Corrections, with some of its employees reportedly working in the same... Continue Reading Food Safety Not a Likely Hot Topic for 2015 Legislatures By Dan Flynn Is it possible that enough cottage food bills got passed to carry the economy through to recovery, that most folks are happy with their raw-milk laws, and that the once-heralded "food freedom" movement never got out of a few towns in Maine (whose names no one can remember now)? State legislatures in California, Montana, Wisconsin,... Continue Reading Fukushima Rice Finally Passes Radiation Checks By News Desk A local farming official in Fukushima Prefecture, Japan, said Monday that rice grown in the area of the 2011 nuclear disaster has passed that country’s radiation checks. Small amounts of the region’s approximately 360,000-ton rice harvest did not pass in 2012 or 2013 and had to be destroyed. Tsuneaki Oonami said that nearly the entire... Continue Reading More Food Safety News Past Food Safety News Articles Food Industry Events Food Safety News Copyright 2014 Marler Clark LLP, PS. All rights reserved. 1301 2nd Avenue, Suite 2800, Seattle, WA 98101. Change your address or unsubscribe.

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