Food Safety News - 10/02/2018 New U.S.-Mexico-Canada trade deal maintains status quo on food safety

Email not displaying properly? View it in your browser. New U.S.-Mexico-Canada trade deal maintains status quo on food safety By Dan Flynn on Oct 02, 2018 12:06 am The new U.S.-Mexico-Canada-Agreement, USMCA contains food safety provisions not unlike the North American Free Trade Agreement it seeks to replace, but not the kind of changes some wanted. Fulfilling one of President Donald J. Trump's campaign promises, news that trade ministers from the U.S., Mexico and Canada had reached an agreement Monday pushed the Dow Jones... Continue Reading FDA says pesticide/herbicide levels OK in most food; glyphosate within legal limits By Coral Beach on Oct 02, 2018 12:05 am A special testing program showed more than 60 percent of corn and soybeans sampled by the Food and Drug Administration were positive for glyphosate and glufosinate residues in FY 2016, but none of the samples had levels higher than the legal limits. The FDA released the herbicide data from the 2016 federal fiscal year on... Continue Reading Faces of Food Safety: Meet Paul Moede of FSIS By U.S. Department of Agriculture on Oct 02, 2018 12:04 am Contributed Editor's note: This is a recent installment in a series of employee profiles being published by the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Food Safety Inspection Service, republished here with permission. Keeping the public safe from foodborne illness will always be a top priority for FSIS employees. Paul Moede, a consumer safety inspector (CSI) in Green... Continue Reading LGA calls for display of food hygiene ratings in England By Joe Whitworth on Oct 02, 2018 12:03 am The Local Government Association (LGA) has renewed calls for all businesses serving food in England to be forced to display food hygiene ratings. Recent figures have shown half of businesses in England do not display such ratings on their premises. LGA wants a change in legislation based on the mandatory display of ratings in Wales... Continue Reading Researchers detail rare outbreak of paralytic shellfish poisoning By News Desk on Oct 02, 2018 12:02 am Australian researchers have examined an outbreak of paralytic shellfish poisoning in 2015 that caused at least four cases in Tasmania. Paralytic shellfish poisoning (PSP) is a rare illness caused by eating shellfish containing paralytic shellfish toxins (PST). PST are produced by certain types of algae during algal blooms and bio-accumulate in bivalve filter-feeding shellfish such as... Continue Reading Food Safety News Copyright © 2018 Marler Clark LLP. All rights reserved. You received this email because you subscribed to notifications when new posts are published. Our mailing address is: Marler Clark LLP 1012 First Avenue Fifth Floor Seattle, WA 98104 Add us to your address book Update your preferences | Unsubscribe from this list