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February 2010

  • Posted: February 24th, 2010 - 6:36pm

    WASHINGTON -- Today, livestock and poultry groups hosted educational briefings on Capitol Hill to share the facts about the importance of tools like antibiotics in raising healthy food animals.

    Date Published: 
    23.feb.10
    Source Title: 
    National Turkey Federation
    Animals  |  Comments
  • Posted: February 24th, 2010 - 6:35pm

    A Maryland veal calf dealer has agreed to shut down as part of a consent decree of permanent injunction, which he entered into after being charged with repeatedly violating federal law and U.S. Food and Drug Administration regulations by selling veal calves with illegal drug residues in their edible tissues.

    Date Published: 
    23.feb.10
    Source Title: 
    FDA
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  • Posted: February 24th, 2010 - 6:34pm

    The Agency has published its new Science and Evidence Strategy 2010–15 and Evidence Plan 2010. These set out how science and evidence will be used to improve food safety and the balance of people's diets.

    Date Published: 
    24.feb.10
    Source Title: 
    Food Standards Agency
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  • Posted: February 24th, 2010 - 6:33pm

    The food-borne parasites discussed in this book are infections of animals which are transmissible to humans and constitute an important component of the Neglected Tropical Diseases (The World Health Organization).

    Date Published: 
    24.feb.10
    Source Title: 
    Free1m
  • Posted: February 24th, 2010 - 6:32pm

    The Food Standards Agency has issued an updated Food Alert for Action for Northern Ireland on smoked mackerel products produced on premises in Northern Ireland not registered with or approved by the district council in that area.

    Date Published: 
    24.feb.10
    Source Title: 
    Food Standards Agency
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    Posted: February 24th, 2010 - 11:56am

    Professional golfer Tiger Woods and Japanese automaker Toyota are both struggling under the media spotlight to repair their damaged public images and resorting to public statements and advertizing.

    Date Published: 
    23.feb.10
    Source Title: 
    barfblog
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  • Posted: February 24th, 2010 - 11:55am

    CNBC ran a feature about raw eggs in recipes today that contained some food safety nose-stretchers. On the plus side, the story acknowledged that raw eggs can carry salmonella, and when Catherine Donnelly, a professor of food safety at the University of Vermont. said that adults may get sick from salmonella, but are unlikely to die, the story said,

    Date Published: 
    23.feb.10
    Source Title: 
    barfblog
    Salmonella  |  Comments
  • Posted: February 24th, 2010 - 11:54am

    Jackie’s Jersey Milk of Bellingham, WA is recalling raw fluid milk because it may be contaminated with Escherichia coli bacteria (E. coli) which can cause serious illness. All Jackie’s Jersey Raw Jersey Cow Milk bearing a use-by date up to and including 3/04 has been recalled. The milk is sold only in half-gallon containers.

    Date Published: 
    23.feb.10
    Source Title: 
    PCC
    E. coli  |  Comments
  • Posted: February 24th, 2010 - 11:53am

    Some detective stories move forward, one lead taking an investigator to the next, right up to when the case is solved. Then there are times when the detective looks back, picking through a thick file, returning to witnesses for another round of interviews, poring over old evidence with new eyes.

    Date Published: 
    23.feb.10
    Source Title: 
    Washington State University
    E. coli  |  Comments
  • Posted: February 24th, 2010 - 11:52am

    The Agency’s Eat Safe Award has reached a significant milestone in Scotland, with the presentation of Glasgow’s 100th award. The award, for excellence in food hygiene and food safety, was presented at Glasgow City Chambers on 15 February to the ISS Integrated Services team from the Skypark office complex in Finnieston, Glasgow.

    Date Published: 
    23.feb.10
    Source Title: 
    FSA
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  • Posted: February 24th, 2010 - 11:46am

    FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. -- A few years ago Billy Hargis’s poultry research laboratory found how to develop probiotics – also known as direct-fed microbials (DFMs) – that would work in the drinking water of chickens and turkeys to fight Salmonella. One of their DFM products was designated as FM-B11 and was licensed to a startup company. It then became a product called FloraMax.

    Date Published: 
    24.feb.10
    Source Title: 
    University of Arkansas, Food Safety Consortium
    Salmonella  |  Comments
  • Posted: February 24th, 2010 - 11:45am

    Animal producers know that the current trend is to discourage the continued use of antibiotics in livestock. But recent Food Safety Consortium-supported research at Iowa State University shows that antibiotics may be helpful in reducing the pathogen E. coli O157:H7 among swine.

    Date Published: 
    24.feb.10
    Source Title: 
    University of Arkansas, Food Safety Consortium
    E. coli  |  Comments
  • Posted: February 24th, 2010 - 11:43am

    Livestock and poultry groups hosted educational briefings Tuesday on Capitol Hill about antibiotic use in raising food animals two weeks after a CBS Evening News report questioned the practice.

    Date Published: 
    24.feb.10
    Source Title: 
    Meatingplace
    Animals  |  Comments
  • Posted: February 24th, 2010 - 11:42am

    Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE), or 'mad cow disease' is a disease of cattle which it is believed can be transmitted to humans and cause variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (vCJD) via the consumption of BSE contaminated food. BSE requirements in the Food Standard Code

    Date Published: 
    23.feb.10
    Source Title: 
    FSANZ
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    Posted: February 23rd, 2010 - 1:36pm

    From Fox8:

    Erin Stadler was at her baby shower when she at a piece of brie cheese that was contaminated with Listeria. The disease made Stadler and her unborn child deathly ill.

    "You don't think about eating one piece of cheese and almost dying. That's basically, what happened for both of us," said Stadler.

    Date Published: 
    23.feb.10
    Source Title: 
    barfblog
    Listeria  |  Comments
  • Posted: February 23rd, 2010 - 1:35pm

    * To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: dpowell@ksu.edu. Abstract

    Date Published: 
    23.feb.10
    Source Title: 
    Public Understanding of Science
  • Posted: February 23rd, 2010 - 1:34pm

    "What does (Powell) know about the actions of London politicians and the relationship of the city and the health unit? Probably nothing."

    Date Published: 
    22.feb.10
    Source Title: 
    barfblog
  • Posted: February 23rd, 2010 - 1:33pm

    (The views and opinions expressed in this blog are strictly those of the author.)

    Date Published: 
    22.feb.10
    Source Title: 
    Meatingplace
    Food Safety Policy  |  Comments
  • Posted: February 23rd, 2010 - 1:31pm

    Ernestine Jamison cooks vegetables for her four children every night in their north Houston apartment. But when she opened a bag of Pictsweet frozen cut green beans last month, she found more than just green beans. The Jamison family believes the green and black frozen object nestled in their dinner was a severed snake head.

    Date Published: 
    23.feb.10
    Source Title: 
    barfblog
    Wacky and Weird  |  Comments
  • Posted: February 23rd, 2010 - 1:31pm

    Tara C. Smith is an Assistant Professor of Epidemiology. Her research involves a number of pathogens at the animal-human nexus. Additionally, she is the founder of Iowa Citizens for Science and also writes for The Panda's Thumb and previously for WIRED SCIENCE's Correlations. Please note the views expressed on this site are Dr.

    Date Published: 
    22.feb.10
    Source Title: 
    Aetiology
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