Indiana Store Fined, Placed on Probation for Food Safety Violations By News Desk  A Mishawaka, IN, gas station and convenience store operator has been fined for repeatedly violating county health code violations. Philly Boy’s, located in the Marathon gas station in Mishawaka, has been ordered to pay $1,100 in fines and put on probation for six months. St. Joseph County health officials fined the business $1,000 for repeatedly keeping food such as... Continue Reading
Publishers Platform: Please Keep Coming Survey Responses By Bill Marler  So far we have had nearly 500 responses to the survey. However, the more we get the better we can understand how to make Food Safety News better. FSN has nearly 150,000 Facebook "likes," more than 27,000 Twitter followers and almost 25,000 subscribers. Please help us out by letting us know about your experience of FSN. Visit: https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/FoodSafetyNewsReaderSurvey We... Continue Reading
Federal Report on Antimicrobial Trends Gets Interactive Update By Lydia Zuraw  The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has released its 2012-2013 National Antimicrobial Resistance Monitoring System (NARMS) Integrated Report. The new collection of data on antimicrobial resistance patterns in bacteria isolated from humans, retail meats and animals at slaughter includes interactive graphs. NARMS is a partnership between FDA, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and... Continue Reading
CDC Researchers Profile 10 Years of E. Coli O157 Outbreaks By News Desk  Escherichia coli O157:H7 caused more outbreaks in the United States from 2003 through 2012 than during the previous 20 years, according to authors from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Writing in the August edition of Emerging Infectious Diseases, CDC’s Katherine E. Heiman, Rajal K. Mody, Shacara D. Johnson, Patricia M. Griffin, and... Continue Reading
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The Washington State Department of Health (DOH) issued an update Wednesday, Aug. 12, on the Salmonella outbreak linked to pork products. According to DOH, there are now 134 cases in 10 counties around the state, and testing has found the outbreak strain at a pork slaughterhouse in Graham, WA. The federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention... 
Food Safety News recently sat down with Mitchell Weinberg at IAFP 2015 in Portland, OR, to discuss the extent of global food fraud and how we can combat it. Weinberg is the founder, president and CEO of INSCATECH, a food fraud investigation firm. Watch the video interview here or find highlights below: On the scope of... 
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