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OTTAWA, November 30, 2010 -- The Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) and Co-op Atlantic are warning the public not to consume the assorted sandwich products described below, sold in Co-op, ValuFoods and RiteStop stores in the Atlantic provinces and the Magdalen Islands, Quebec because they may be contaminated with Listeria monocytogenes.

Angelina's Italian Grill, 5611 S. Valley View Blvd., received 14 demerits Nov. 15. Violations included food operators handling ready-to-eat foods with their bare hands. GRADE: B. Carniceria La Mexicana restaurant, 1110 E. Charleston Blvd., received 52 demerits Nov. 17. Violations included spoiled food. GRADE: Closed

It’s an important day for food safety types because new research shows E. coli O157:H7 can enter beef cuts like steak during mechanical or blade or needle tenderization, as it’s called.

The U.S. Senate today approved S. 510, the FDA Food Safety Modernization Act by a vote of 73 to 25.  Chris Waldrop, director of Consumer Federation of America’s Food Policy Institute said, “Americans expect our food to be safe.

FDA today notified Wright County Egg LLC of Galt, Iowa, that the company has FDA’s concurrence to begin shipping shell eggs directly to the consumer market from two hen houses on one of its six farms.  The firm has not shipped eggs to the consumer market since August 2010, when the company's eggs were associated with the multi-state outbreak of Salmonella Enteritidis (SE).

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