Food Safety News - 01/23/2019 Can Silicon Valley save food safety? Maybe, but not with online reviews alone

Email not displaying properly? View it in your browser. Can Silicon Valley save food safety? Maybe, but not with online reviews alone By Guest Contributor on Jan 23, 2019 12:05 am Opinion An emerging body of scholarship argues that machine learning and artificial intelligence can solve food safety enforcement. By mining tweets and Yelp reviews, health departments can target inspections more effectively.  With much fanfare, health departments in Boston, New York City, Las Vegas and Chicago have experimented with using social media to send allocate enforcement resources... Continue Reading Hello Fresh, Chefs Plate meal kits recalled for Salmonella risk from peppers By News Desk on Jan 23, 2019 12:04 am Another company in Canada has recalled products because of possible Salmonella contamination of chili peppers. Hello Fresh Canada Inc. is recalling several flavors of meal kits because they contain the red chilis. Both Hello Fresh and Chefs Plate brand meal kits are included in the recall. The company initiated the recall, according to a notice... Continue Reading Researchers find high fat diet may increase risk of Listeria infections By News Desk on Jan 23, 2019 12:03 am A high fat diet could increase the risk of infection with Listeria monocytogenes, according to researchers from University College Cork. APC Microbiome Ireland scientists based at the university found a high fat "western" diet reduces efficiency of the immune system to fight infectious disease in the gut. Researchers discovered that feeding mice with such a... Continue Reading FDA food investigations running at less than 50 percent of normal By Dan Flynn on Jan 22, 2019 12:57 pm The Food and Drug Administration has "more than 200 food investigators" on the job "not counting support staff and supervisors" out of about 550 total professionals "when the agency is fully operational,” according to Commissioner Scott Gottlieb. In a "tweet" Monday, the FDA commissioner said he was responding to questions about staffing levels for FDA's... 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