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March 2012

  • Posted: March 28th, 2012 - 6:49pm

    According to lohud.com, a likely outbreak of norovirus has made at least 30 students of Corcodia College ill. It was first reported on the 800-student campus Friday. Within a couple of days, 30 students contracted the virus and four wound up in Lawrence Hospital Center in Bronxville.

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    28.mar.12
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    Norovirus  |  Comments
  • Posted: March 28th, 2012 - 6:49pm

    Tuscaloosa News reports customers who ate at the McDonald's in Northport on McFarland Boulevard between Feb. 28 and March 14 may have been exposed to hepatitis A, according to the Alabama Department of Public Health.

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    28.mar.12
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    Posted: March 28th, 2012 - 6:48pm

    As the usual suspects weigh in with ol’ timey public relations strategies and superficial observations of social media in the demise of pink slime, it’s good to poke fun at all things foodie. Satirical takedowns of the pretentious and pompous never go out of style, regardless of the medium.

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    28.mar.12
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  • Posted: March 28th, 2012 - 6:47pm

    Siouxland butcher shops are rallying around the local business, after yesterday's announcement that Dakota Dunes-based BPI will be suspending operations at 3 of its 4 plants. BPI's product "lean, finely textured beef" has been at the center of a nationwide debate. And folks in Siouxland want you to know, they believe it's not right.

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    28.mar.12
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    kcautv.com
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  • Posted: March 28th, 2012 - 6:47pm

    SIOUX CITY, SD -- Iowa Gov. Terry Branstad has invited the governors of Texas and Nebraska to tour Beef Products Inc.’s plant in South Sioux City on March 29, according to news reports.

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    28.mar.12
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    Meat & Poultry
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  • Posted: March 28th, 2012 - 6:46pm

    STATEMENT BY David B. Schmidt President & CEO International Food Information Council in response to inquiryregarding the impact of social media campaigns on industry decisions.

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    28.mar.12
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    Food Insight
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  • Posted: March 28th, 2012 - 6:45pm

    Here’s a feather in Jamie Oliver’s cap: With ample help from the media, the increasingly insufferable British celebrity chef’s long campaign against a perfectly safe food product has at least temporarily cost some 600 people their jobs.

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    28.mar.12
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    National Post
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  • Posted: March 28th, 2012 - 6:44pm

    The social media-driven frenzy that caused supermarket chains and fast-food purveyors to quit using so-called pink slime beef additives will most likely drive up hamburger prices further, cattle traders and a supermarket spokeswoman said Tuesday.

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    27.mar.12
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    Des Moines Register
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  • Posted: March 28th, 2012 - 6:44pm

    Recommendations The FSA should: work with local authorities to ensure there is a common understanding of how the presence of an acceptable food management system is scored as part of an inspection consult with Professor Pennington to ensure work on the above recommendation takes account of his interpretation of his 2009 recommendation on food management systems

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    28.mar.12
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    Consumer Focus Wales
    E. coli  |  Comments
  • Posted: March 28th, 2012 - 6:43pm

    Take an ounce of lettuce, test it for 17 hours, and the results show whether that mainstay ingredient in green salads is contaminated with Salmonella, the food poisoning bacteria that sickens millions of people each year. Another traditional test takes 72 hours to complete.

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    28.mar.12
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    American Chemical Society
    Salmonella  |  Comments
  • Posted: March 28th, 2012 - 6:42pm

    The Food Standards Agency is reminding anyone who is considering setting up a stall selling refreshments during the Olympics to plan ahead. To help, the Agency has produced guidance answering the most frequently asked questions.

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    28.mar.12
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    Food Standards Agency
  • Posted: March 28th, 2012 - 6:41pm

    From April 2012, FSA staff will be taking over the role of dairy hygiene inspectors on farms in England and Wales, continuing the work of the Animal Health and Veterinary Laboratories Agency (AHVLA), which had previously undertaken this task on the FSA's behalf.

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    28.mar.12
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    Food Standards Agency
    Food Safety Policy  |  Comments
  • Posted: March 28th, 2012 - 6:40pm

    COLUMBIA, Mo. ¬-- Based on a recent study, University of Missouri and Oregon researchers believe a legal definition for what constitutes “cruelty-free” labeled products should be determined and manufacturers should be required to abide by the legal use of the label.

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    28.mar.12
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    University of Missouri
    Animal Welfare  |  Comments
  • Posted: March 28th, 2012 - 6:39pm

    It was at the same time a celebration of a decade of beef safety progress and a solemn recognition of the long road ahead. When about 230 food safety experts gathered in Tampa, Fla., for the 10th anniversary of the Beef Industry Safety Summit in early March, they heard about the beef industry’s success in improving beef safety and increasing consumer confidence in the product.

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    27.mar.12
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    Drovers Cattle Network
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  • Posted: March 28th, 2012 - 6:35pm

    Over the past few days a number of local authorities in Warwickshire and other areas in England have rolled out the Agency's Food Hygiene Rating Scheme. This means there are now more than 200 local authorities in England, Wales and Northern Ireland publishing more than 180,000 food hygiene ratings at food.gov.uk/ratings.

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    28.mar.12
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    Food Standards Agency
    Food Safety Policy  |  Comments
  • Posted: March 28th, 2012 - 6:34pm

     When a sports team fails, some players are shipped to the minors, maybe some assistant coaches, then the coach and eventually the person who made all those hires in the first place – the general manager. I’m thinking of you, Toronto Maple Leafs (see the extremely vulgar, funny and accurate Leafs Beefs at www.leafsbeefs.com).

    Date Published: 
    27.mar.12
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    barfblog
    Salmonella  |  Comments
  • Posted: March 28th, 2012 - 6:33pm

    The Minnesota Health Department says three people have tested positive for cryptosporidium and another six cases are suspected -- all had recently been swimming at the Edgewater in Duluth in March. Of those nine possibly affected, seven are kids and two are adults.

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    28.mar.12
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  • Posted: March 28th, 2012 - 6:32pm

    Foodborne illness outbreaks resulting from Clostridium perfringens were often large and caused substantial morbidity from 1998 to 2008, according to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

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    27.mar.12
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    barfblog
  • Posted: March 28th, 2012 - 6:31pm

    Thee Welsh government has been criticized by a consumer group for failing to publish a key food safety review, more than a year after it was due.

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    28.mar.12
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    barfblog
    Food Safety Policy  |  Comments
  • Posted: March 28th, 2012 - 6:28pm

    In Aug. 2011, Terry Brady, a spokesperson with Pennsylvania’s Department of Conservation and Natural Resources said that the lake at Cowan’s Gap State Park remained open, despite links to three cases of E. coli O157. “The beaches are open and actually there was a good turnout today. A link to the park has not been established."

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    28.mar.12
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    barfblog
    E. coli  |  Comments