The long-anticipated produce safety regulation from the Food and Drug Administration will be issued soon after the first of the year, FDA officials say. “The FDA plans publishing the produce safety proposed rule in early 2012,” Sebastian Cianci, spokesman for the Food and Drug Administration said in a Dec. 12 e-mail.

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In Oct. 2004, I gave a keynote talk at the Food Standards Australia New Zealand food safety conference in the Gold Coast, Australia.

Before the talk, I did a live bit for one of the morning talk shows – like Good Morning America, but it was Good Morning Australia. Washing shopping carts was of particular interest.

After finding more than 30 live roaches in a beverage machine, a state inspector issued a temporary emergency closure order for a Jacksonville Burger King last week. Gary Mills of the Florida Times quotes from the inspector’s report:

Fiji is among a list countries in the region with high incidences of foodborne diseases. That was a comment made by University of the South Pacific academic and co-ordinator of the Food Safety Training exercise Dr Jimaima Lako yesterday. The workshop was conducted in collaboration with the World Health Organisation.

FORT COLLINS - Pregnant women can learn how to protect themselves and their babies from the risks of foodborne illness -- such as the recent melon-related listeria outbreak -- thanks to a joint effort between Ohio State University and Colorado State University.

OTTAWA -- The Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) and Bos Smoked Fish Inc. are warning the public not to consume certain Bos brand refrigerated vacuum packed smoked fish products without Best Before dates, described below, because the products may be contaminated with Clostridium botulinum. Toxins produced by this bacteria may cause botulism, a life-threatening illness.

The Brits love their birds. But not so for a dairy farmer from the Somerset Levels who told BBC News that roosting starlings and their salmonella-laden poop contaminating feed has led to the loss of 40 calves and is costing his business up to £40,000 a year. He fears the droppings may also result in salmonella in his cattle's dairy milk.