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  • US: Oysters, or not

    Posted: November 21st, 2009 - 2:02pm

    Date Published: 
    21.nov.09
    Source Title: 
    Los Angeles Times

    Every year, about 15 people die after eating raw oysters tainted with a bacterium that has no effect on healthy diners but can be deadly to those with HIV, cancer, liver disease or otherwise compromised immune systems. The deaths are easily preventable.

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  • US: Jolley: Five minutes with Jim Hodges, President, American Meat Institute Foundation

    Posted: November 21st, 2009 - 1:46pm

    Date Published: 
    20.nov.09
    Source Title: 
    Cattle Network

    Weigh the newspaper and magazine coverage and you might think the meat industry has little concern about food safety issues.

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  • CALIFORNIA: Examining food safety practice, guidelines

    Posted: November 19th, 2009 - 8:28pm

    Date Published: 
    18.nov.09
    Source Title: 
    Daily Sundial

    The following students from a Spring 2009 Journalism 410 class contributed to the story: Samantha Minton, Kristyn Fryrear, Robert Cisneros, Casey Rowley, Tiaira Nowlin, Cynthia Martinez, Mariana Enriquez, Shayla Selva, Gail Moscoso

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  • US: FDA takes action against dairy farm and owner

    Posted: November 19th, 2009 - 8:24pm

    Date Published: 
    18.nov.09
    Source Title: 
    FDA

    On Nov. 16, 2009, Judge Marvin J. Garbis of the United States District Court for the District of Maryland entered a Consent Decree of Permanent Injunction (Decree) against Old Carolina Farm and its owner, Francis Roderick, of Ijamsville, Md.

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  • U.S. Senate panel passes food safety reform bill

    Posted: November 19th, 2009 - 2:06pm

    Date Published: 
    18.nov.09
    Source Title: 
    Reuters

    WASHINGTON -- A Senate committee passed legislation on Wednesday that would increase government oversight of the U.S. food supply, which has been battered by a series of high-profile recalls that have soured consumer confidence in the food safety system.

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  • US: Vilsack: Address nutrition, food safety in school meals

    Posted: November 18th, 2009 - 3:21pm

    Date Published: 
    18.nov.09
    Source Title: 
    The Packer

    The reauthorization of federal school nutrition programs should address obesity and food safety, Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack told a Senate panel.

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  • PHILIPPINES: DA lifts import ban on US meat, bone meal imports

    Posted: November 18th, 2009 - 3:18pm

    Date Published: 
    18.nov.09
    Source Title: 
    GMA News

    The Department of Agriculture (DA) has lifted the temporary ban on meat and bone meal imports from the United States after global health authorities place the country under “controlled-risk status" of the mad cow disease.

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  • HONG KONG: SPANISH poultry imports resume

    Posted: November 18th, 2009 - 3:17pm

    Date Published: 
    18.nov.09
    Source Title: 
    Health & Community

    The Centre for Food Safety has resumed processing applications to import poultry meat and products from Spain, except from the provinces of Guadalajara and Navarra, with immediate effect. The applications were suspended following the confirmation of avian influenza H7 cases in a poultry farm in Castilla-La Mancha, Guadalajara, last month.

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  • AUSTRALIA: Hygiene threatens kangaroo meat industry

    Posted: November 18th, 2009 - 7:16am

    Date Published: 
    18.nov.09
    Source Title: 
    Sydney Morning Herald

    The kangaroo meat industry's failure to adhere to hygiene regulations is placing public health at risk, a former senior food safety bureaucrat says.

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  • INDIA: FSSAI engages agencies for Food Safety, Quality Standards & Regulatory guidelines

    Posted: November 17th, 2009 - 10:58am

    Date Published: 
    16.nov.09
    Source Title: 
    Food & Beverage News

    Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI) has engaged agencies for finalisation of Food Safety and Quality Standards and Regulatory guidelines for Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI).

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