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September 2009

  • Posted: September 24th, 2009 - 12:01pm

    Expanding a program that began in California to the entire country would be "the best available instrument" to ensure food safety, a Castroville farmer testified Tuesday. Joe Pezzini, chief operating officer for Ocean Mist Farms, was the first witness in a U.S. Department of Agriculture hearing in Monterey on a proposed national leafy green marketing agreement.

    Date Published: 
    23.sep.09
    Source Title: 
    Monterey Herald
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  • Posted: September 24th, 2009 - 12:00pm

    Strawberry pickers started the season with a tailgate event this year, but it wasn't a party. Workers got "tailgate training," a food-safety program in the fields developed by the Strawberry Commission.

    Date Published: 
    23.sep.09
    Source Title: 
    Monterey Herald
    Plants  |  Comments
  • Posted: September 24th, 2009 - 11:56am

    The Food Standards Agency is warning food business operators to be aware of fraudsters who are visiting food business premises claiming that they are from the Agency. The fraudsters claim that they are there to carry out inspections and then extract substantial amounts of money as a fixed penalty fee for the premises being allegedly unhygienic.

    Date Published: 
    24.sep.09
    Source Title: 
    Food Standards Agency
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  • Posted: September 24th, 2009 - 11:55am

    CHICAGO -- Foodborne pathogens like Salmonella enterica, Escherichia coli O157:H7 and Listeria monocytogenes are serious safety issues for food processors and consumers alike. However, meat and poultry products may be rendered safer with the use of edible apple film wraps, according to a new study in the Journal of Food Science, published by the Institute of Food Technologists.

    Date Published: 
    23.sep.09
    Source Title: 
    Institute of Food Technologists
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  • Posted: September 24th, 2009 - 11:54am

    CHICAGO -- A new study from the Journal of Food Science, published by the Institute of Food Technologists, shows that microwave reheating of hotdogs for 75 seconds at high power may decrease risks from pathogens that cause foodborne illness.

    Date Published: 
    23.sep.09
    Source Title: 
    Institute of Food Technologists
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  • Posted: September 24th, 2009 - 11:52am

    CHICAGO -- The October 2009 issue of the Journal of Food Science reviews the key concepts of RFID technology and its food safety applications to the food industry.

    Date Published: 
    23.sep.09
    Source Title: 
    Institute of Food Technologists
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  • Posted: September 24th, 2009 - 11:46am

    This column, by the President and CEO of the Kansas Bioscience Authority, Tom Thornton, is a good reminder of the importance of ongoing research into our country’s food safety needs. The federal government is taking threats to the safety of our food supply seriously as evidenced by the recent announcement that a construction manager was selected.

    Date Published: 
    23.sep.09
    Source Title: 
    NBAF Blog
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  • Posted: September 24th, 2009 - 11:44am

    CHICAGO RIDGE, Ill. -- Police say four people who allegedly operated a "horrific" dogfighting ring out of a suburban Chicago home day care have been arrested. Cook County Sheriff Tom Dart says during a raid police found blood spattered on the walls of the home and devices to train the dogs were discovered not far from where children played.

    Date Published: 
    23.sep.09
    Source Title: 
    USA Today
    Animals  |  Comments
  • Posted: September 24th, 2009 - 11:43am

    Since the human response to infection is highly complex, research to understand how people fight infection is facilitated by studying how similar processes occur in simpler organisms. Zebrafish are becoming an important model for human disease, since they are easily handled, maintained and manipulated and many fundamental processes between zebrafish and humans are conserved.

    Date Published: 
    24.sep.09
    Source Title: 
    The Company of Biologists
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  • Posted: September 24th, 2009 - 11:41am

    A group of Chinese technicians will collaborate with the National Fisheries Development Institute (INDP) to start work intended to facilitate the drafting of a Strategic Pisciculture Development Plan (PNDP) for Cape Verde. Their objective is that this Plan spurs the development of marine and hatchery farming of various species, and shrimp and lobster in particular.

    Date Published: 
    24.sep.09
    Source Title: 
    FIS
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  • Posted: September 24th, 2009 - 11:40am

    The European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) held a two-day conference on GMO risk assessment for human and animal health and the environment in Brussels on 14-15 September 2009, bringing together risk assessors from EU Member States, risk managers, and representatives from stakeholders including industry, consumer and environmental groups from the EU and beyond.

    Date Published: 
    22.sep.09
    Source Title: 
    European Food Safety Authority
  • Posted: September 24th, 2009 - 11:38am

    The 2008 annual report of pesticide residues on food in the UK has today been published by the Pesticide Residues Committee (PRC) – an independent committee that advises the Food Standards Agency.

    Date Published: 
    24.sep.09
    Source Title: 
    Food Standards Agency
    Pesticides  |  Comments
  • Posted: September 24th, 2009 - 11:37am

    Since 1987, annual reports have been prepared to summarize results of the Food and Drug Administration's (FDA) pesticide residue monitoring program. Reports from Fiscal Years (FYs) 1987 to 1993 were published in the Journal of the Association of Official Analytical Chemists/Journal of AOAC International.

    Date Published: 
    31.jun.09
    Source Title: 
    FDA
    Pesticides  |  Comments
  • Posted: September 24th, 2009 - 11:34am

    Outbreaks of salmonellosis related to consumption of fresh produce have raised interest in Salmonella-plant interactions leading to plant colonization. Incubation of gfp-tagged Salmonella enterica with iceberg lettuce leaves in the light resulted in aggregation of bacteria near open stomata and invasion into the inner leaf tissue.

    Date Published: 
    01.oct.09
    Source Title: 
    Applied and Environmental Microbiology, Vol. 75, No. 19, p. 6076-6086
    Salmonella  |  Comments
  • Posted: September 23rd, 2009 - 3:23pm

    The newest food safety infosheet, a graphical one-page food safety-related story directed at food handlers, is now available at www.foodsafetyinfosheets.com Food Safety Infosheet Highlights: - 67 ill in UK outbreak linked to Godstone Farm in Surry; 13 ill in outbreak linked to the Pacific National Exhibition

    Date Published: 
    23.sep.09
    Source Title: 
    bites
    E. coli  |  Comments
  • Posted: September 23rd, 2009 - 3:21pm

    Two more cases of E.coli O157 have been linked to a children's petting farm in Surrey, taking the total number to 76. The Health Protection Agency (HPA) said it expected more people to come forward with symptoms because of the bug's delayed incubation period. Godstone Farm closed on 12 September following the outbreak.

    Date Published: 
    23.sep.09
    Source Title: 
    BBC News
    E. coli  |  Comments
  • Posted: September 23rd, 2009 - 3:20pm

    The E.coli scare spreading across Britain is hurting recession-hit businesses in the Burnham and Highbridge area, the Weekly News can reveal. Four animal petting farms across England have been closed following an outbreak of the most serious E.coli O157 strain, which has infected 64 people and left nine children in hospital.

    Date Published: 
    23.sep.09
    Source Title: 
    This Is The West Country
    E. coli  |  Comments
  • Posted: September 23rd, 2009 - 3:20pm

    A toddler was left with animal faeces smeared all over her face after using the children's play area at a garden centre. Two-year-old Jasmine Westgate was playing in the sandpit at Highfield Garden World in Whitminster when she put her hands in a pile of fox mess.

    Date Published: 
    23.sep.09
    Source Title: 
    This Is Gloucestershire
    Wacky and Weird  |  Comments
  • Posted: September 23rd, 2009 - 3:18pm

    I was just at the North American Meat Processors annual meeting on September 10th, speaking on what they might expect in the new Administration in regards to food safety policy. As always, this was a lively, passionate and very concerned group trying to look into a crystal ball to interpret the real meaning of new regs and policies, public statements and rumors.

    Date Published: 
    22.sep.09
    Source Title: 
    Meatingplace
    E. coli  |  Comments
  • Posted: September 23rd, 2009 - 3:16pm

    Australia’s food safety regulator, Food Standards Australia New Zealand (FSANZ), has today announced a number of proposed changes to current food laws and is welcoming the views of any individual or organisation.

    Date Published: 
    23.sep.09
    Source Title: 
    Australian Food News
    Food Safety Policy  |  Comments