With FDA rule-making stalled out as proposed FSMA regulation appears stuck on the desks of OMB, the Agency has been issuing reports on global and domestic data and strategy. Two of the most recent reports are updates on the two-year-old Reportable Food Registry and a Global Engagement strategy which again denotes the FDA’s focus on imported products.

WBIR reports three children are in hospital following an E. coli O157 outbreak at a Cocke County daycare facility. According to the Tennessee Department of Health, three juveniles, all of whom attend the same daycare facility in Newport, were diagnosed with E. coli symptoms.

I received a bunch of my food safety education while working with fruit and vegetable farmers in southern Ontario (that's in Canada). Sure, I learned lots of stuff in classes, but a lot of my training on practical ways to keep folks from barfing was in greenhouses, fields and orchards. Farmers deal with variability in weather, wildlife, prices and staff.

Fines and costs of over £20k have been awarded against a company found in breach of meat hygiene regulations.

Abstract: For years, high-pressure processing has been viewed as useful for pasteurizing food while maintaining the quality of fresh food. However, even at moderate pressure, this process is not without effects on food, especially on meat products. These effects are especially important because pressure greater than 400 MPa is generally necessary to achieve efficient microbial inactivation.

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In 1996, California strawberry growers were wrongly fingered as the source of a cyclospora outbreak that sickened over 1,000 people across North America; the culprit was Guatemalan raspberries.

USDA Chief Veterinary Officer John Clifford today released the following statement on the detection of BSE in the United States: