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Food Safety Policy
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- CANADA: Seafresh Products Distributors, Incorporated enters guilty plea for violating fish inspection regulations
Celebrity
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- Did a salad at a German hotel fell Ukraine players at Euro 2012?
Listeria
- US: Updated consumer alert – Listeria contamination in certain Mexicali Cheese Corp. Products
- Occurrence of Listeria spp. in dairy plants in Southern Italy and molecular subtyping of isolates using AFLP
- Kinetics of Listeria monocytogenes cell reduction in processed cheese during storage
Norovirus
- Beware the pom-pom: cheerleaders stricken with norovirus at Michigan camp
- Careful cleaning up barf: 242 sickened with norovirus at a boys' basketball tournament, Kentucky, Feb. 2012
- INDIANA: Norovirus cited in illnesses at Notre Dame camps
Other Microorganisms
- CANADA: Health hazard alert – Certain St. Fidèle brand cheese curds may contain a toxin produced by Staphylococcus bacteria
- Improperly home canned foods eaten at private BBQ linked to three cases of botulism
- High occurrence of Campylobacter spp. in Latvian broiler chicken production
Genetic Engineering
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- Genetically engineered foods and human health: I get bored easily
- On bullshit and section 5 of the Food and Drugs Act (the Canadian one)
Pesticides
- FINLAND: CHINA and US biggest sources of bad produce
- Brazilian monitoring programs for pesticide residues in food – results from 2001 to 2010
- INDIA: Two kids die of food poisoning
Animal Welfare
- US: Animal health experts discuss link between animal and public health during Capitol Hill panel discussion
- INDONESIAN workers confused by Australian animal welfare concerns
- AUSTRALIA: ILE cameras in Indonesian abattoirs
Animals
- I can now blame all my personality traits on toxo; but cats probably aren't causing Danish women to kill themselves
- Fun times for graduate students sampling pets’ poop for parasites
- SCOTLAND: Black market food alert over cattle rustling
Thermometers
Food Safety Culture
- UK: Bag it up
- Comparative analysis of training delivery methods for new employees cleaning and sanitizing retail deli slicers: An exploratory study
- Taxpayer-funded food safety messages that suck on Independence Day
E. coli
- AUSTRALIA: Coles Lite Sour Cream (Microbial – E.coli contamination)
- Electrostatic spraying of food-grade organic and inorganic acids and plant extracts to decontaminate Escherichia coli O157:H7 on spinach and iceberg lettuce
- Beef safety in FRANCE — “Surgery using big tools”
Salmonella
- Changes in resistance of Salmonella Typhimurium biofilms formed under various conditions to industrial sanitizers
- US: Six multistate outbreaks of human Salmonella infections linked to small turtles
- CANADA: Expanded health hazard alert – Certain Alkanater brand Tahina may contain Salmonella bacteria
Hepatitis A
- Food handler at North Carolina Dixie Donuts diagnosed with hepatitis A
- PHILIPPINES: Street food blamed for 15 ‘hepa’ cases in Pahina-Central
- SINGAPORE: Some diners still eat cockles despite health risks
Handwashing
- CANADA: Hand sanitizer meant to kill germs recalled due to bacterial contamination
- Handwashing with soap and paper towels matters; water temperature doesn’t
- US: New iPhone "app" helps Vanderbilt University Medical Center monitor hand washing compliance
Allergies
- US: Severe reactions to food more common than thought in young children
- Study identifies causes for high rates of allergic reactions in children with food allergies
- Undeclared allergens continue to top recall and warning letter lists
Raw Food
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- Washington state says, please cook your oysters
- Chef serves up raw meat protest in Windsor
Restaurant Inspection
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- NEW YORK: Restaurant inspection ratings to be posted
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