Food Safety News - 01/08/2019 Partial government shutdown is giving federal food safety a stress test

Email not displaying properly? View it in your browser. Partial government shutdown is giving federal food safety a stress test By Dan Flynn on Jan 08, 2019 12:05 am The Alliance for A Stronger FDA, a non-profit organization that has been rattling the fiscal cages in Washington D.C. for more than a decade, isn’t buying the line that the partial government shutdown is a “no harm, no foul” event for federal food safety. With the partial shutdown now in its 18th day, everybody’s had... Continue Reading Dutch agency devoting most of 2019 budget to food safety programs By Joe Whitworth on Jan 08, 2019 12:04 am The Netherlands Food and Consumer Product Safety Authority (NVWA) is to devote more than half of its resources to food safety this year, according to the agency's annual plan. The 2019 document states the NVWA will spend 52 percent of available supervisory capacity on the subject of food safety. The plan sets out tasks and... Continue Reading Immediate closure ordered for Almanza's Mexican Food in Northern Colorado By Dan Flynn on Jan 08, 2019 12:03 am A Northern Colorado Mexican restaurant with a horrible food inspection record was ordered to immediately shut down Monday by county commissioners. For the second time in as many years, operations at Almanza’s Mexican Food at 2502 8th Ave. in Garden City, CO, were suspended by the Board of Weld County Commissioners for repeated health code... Continue Reading Researchers discover how foodborne bacteria move in small spaces By News Desk on Jan 08, 2019 12:02 am Scientists have made a discovery which could lead to finding ways to stop the spread of certain bacteria that cause food poisoning. Many bacteria can swim, allowing them to infect and spread in the case of pathogenic species. Almost all swimming species of bacteria move using corkscrew-like propellers called flagella. Bacterial flagella are made up of... Continue Reading Publisher's Platform: I am Flying Wednesday, and you are Eating – Safely? By Bill Marler on Jan 07, 2019 11:16 pm Is the government shutdown compromising our safety? I have faith in the consummate professionalism of the 47,000 TSA inspectors as I consider boarding a plane in Seattle on Wednesday for a trip to Chicago for the final bankruptcy hearing in the Soy Nut Butter E. colioutbreak of 2016. And, then there are the 1,000 some... Continue Reading Food Safety News Copyright © 2019 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