EFSA: Home kitchen hygiene crucial to fight foodborne illness By News Desk  Relatively minor gastrointestinal illnesses can be serious, even fatal, for people from risk groups including small children, pregnant women, very old people or people with weakened immune systems, prompting a reminder that kitchen hygiene is of vital importance. In an effort to reduce the number of foodborne infections, the Member States of the European Union... Continue Reading
Sessions clears way for food companies to ignore FDA guidance By Dan Flynn  Those guidance documents the Food and Drug Administration hands out to food manufacturers and others don’t mean as much as they once did. The Department of Justice has changed its policy so government lawyers will no longer rely on guidance documents to establish civil law infractions. The policy change was not a surprise. Attorney General... Continue Reading
Recalled dates linked to hepatitis A outbreak in Denmark By News Desk  According to Denmark’s State Serum Institute, an outbreak of hepatitis A linked to dates has sickened 14 people, hospitalizing all but one, since the first confirmed illness in December 2017. During the initial interviews, several of the patients indicated having eaten dates. Juicy Dates brand dates were recalled Feb. 6. Public health epidemiologists found virus samples from seven of the patients is type... Continue Reading
Cooking water suspected cause of Olympics norovirus outbreak By News Desk  Cooking water is emerging as the likely source of a foodborne norovirus outbreak, predominately among security staff, at the Winter Olympics in South Korea. As of Monday, Korea's public health authorities had confirmed 194 cases of norovirus in the outbreak, according to the Korea Herald. No athletes have been confirmed with the highly contagious virus.... Continue Reading
USDA extends comment time on proposed swine slaughter rule By News Desk  Having already received more than 17,200 comments on proposed changes to swine slaughter inspection regulations, the USDA's Food Safety and Inspection Service is extending the comment period on the proposed rule. The 30-day extension of the comment deadline to May 2 comes at the request of industry and consumer groups, according to a statement from... Continue Reading
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The FDA has released an updated version of the federal Food Code with "significant changes" that include a section on the use of bandages among foodservice workers and revised cooking temperatures. With the Monday release of the 2017 edition of the Food Code, officials from the Food and Drug Administration described the document as a... 
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