Faster Listeria Tests Start Hitting the Market By News Desk  Once food manufacturers begin looking for Listeria more often, it's only natural that they will begin to look for faster tests. Traditional means of detecting Listeria involve techniques and processes that take several days to complete while waiting for the return of laboratory results. But new options are emerging. Here are a couple of examples:... Continue Reading
Convictions Upheld in Peanut Corporation of America Case By Dan Flynn  Post-trial motions for acquittal, dismissal, or, in the alternative, a new trial filed by defendants Stewart Parnell, Michael Parnell, and Mary Wilkerson have all been denied by U.S. District Court Judge W. Louis Sands. As many as 14 motions, sealed until now, were settled by the judge’s ruling on Thursday, although defense attorneys for the... Continue Reading
Building an 'Integrated Food Safety System' Will Take All of Us By Darin Detwiler  Mike Taylor, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s Deputy Commissioner for Foods, stated in his address before the 2015 Food Safety Summit that, "If we were starting from scratch, [America's food safety system] would look different." Under Taylor's leadership, FDA's implementation of the Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA) envisions an "integrated food safety system" to... Continue Reading
Year-Long Survey Finds Campylobacter on 73 Percent of UK Chicken By News Desk  After a year of testing store-bought chicken in the United Kingdom for Campylobacter, the Food Standards Agency there has published the results — and they're pretty dismal. More than 4,000 samples of fresh whole chilled chickens and packaging were collected between February 2014 and February 2015, and 73 percent of the chickens tested positive for the... Continue Reading
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Two California women are suing Don Antonio's, claiming they were both infected with Salmonella after meeting for lunch at the popular West Los Angeles Mexican restaurant. Tamara T. Tayarani and Margaret Howard were not alone since numerous Don Antonio’s customers took to social media, including Yelp and Twitter, to spread the word about the March illnesses they blamed... 
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