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  • UK: Incidents report published

    Posted: May 28th, 2009 - 6:33pm

    The Food Standards Agency today publishes its third Annual Report of Incidents, highlighting the need for all food business operators and enforcement authorities to make reporting these incidents a top priority.

    Date Published: 
    28.may.09
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  • US: Overcoming the stigma of ‘toilet-to-tap’ water

    Posted: May 28th, 2009 - 6:31pm

    Water resource specialist Chris Reilly would often take his sixth grade students to waterways - streams, ponds, estuaries - when he was a teacher for the Boulder Creek YMCA in Santa Cruz.

    Date Published: 
    27.may.09
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  • US: Phosphorus leaching differs in dairy manures

    Posted: May 28th, 2009 - 6:29pm

    Agricultural Research Service  (ARS) scientists have found that solid dairy manure is better than commercial fertilizer in mitigating the amount of phosphorus that can accumulate in water percolating through the soil. But using liquid dairy manure can make it worse.

    Date Published: 
    28.may.09
    Animals, Plants  |  Comments
  • BARFBLOG: Effective food safety messages for microbial food safety hazards

    Posted: May 28th, 2009 - 9:09am

    At some point while endlessly bitching at Chapman to finish his damn thesis and produce some papers, I realized, I wasn’t so good at closing the deal myself. I could say I like blogging, being quoted in media, the immediacy of it all, but I also realized I needed the credibility of peer-reviewed publications.

    Date Published: 
    27.may.09
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  • BARFBLOG: Hockey and triathalons – don’t swim in the Oklahoma River

    Posted: May 28th, 2009 - 9:06am

    I miss hockey. The closest ice is two hours away. I used to play 4-5 times a week, coached a whole bunch of girls teams, and now I’m in Kansas, watching TV, and I’m fat. Maybe my friend Steve will guilt me into getting back into shape. But Steve doesn’t have a six-month-old, and Ben does, and he understands the laziness.

    Date Published: 
    27.may.09
    E. coli  |  Comments
  • BARFBLOG: Food producers – speak up

    Posted: May 28th, 2009 - 9:03am

    I have a garden. This is the spinach Amy harvested yesterday. Good crop, although I need to get out there and weed (or convince some students that it’s part of a local, natural experiment and they should volunteer; happens all the time).

    Date Published: 
    27.may.09
    Plants  |  Comments
  • Designing effective messages for microbial food safety hazards

    Posted: May 28th, 2009 - 9:01am

    Despite numerous food safety information campaigns and educational efforts, microbial foodborne illness remains a significant source of human disease. New food safety messages transmitted using new media are required to enhance food safety from farm-to-fork.

    Date Published: 
    01.june.09
    Food Safety Policy  |  Comments
  • CANADA: CFIA slammed for its handling of listeriosis outbreak

    Posted: May 28th, 2009 - 8:58am

    OTTAWA -- In front of a parliamentary subcommittee Wednesday, the medical health officers for Ontario and the City of Toronto chastised the Canadian Food Inspection Agency for its handling of last summer's listeriosis outbreak.

    Date Published: 
    27.may.09
    Food Safety Policy, Listeria  |  Comments
  • CALIFORNIA: Carrot giant sues, alleging sheep damaged crop

    Posted: May 28th, 2009 - 8:55am

    http://barfblog.foodsafety.ksu.edu/2009/05/articles/culture-of-food-safety/carrot-producers-sue-sheepherders/ Grimmway Enterprises Inc. is suing Fernando and Yvonne Iturriria for $230,059.34 in damages, plus attorneys fees.

    Date Published: 
    27.may.09
    Animals, E. coli  |  Comments
  • US: Keeping food supply safe requires strong system, vigilance

    Posted: May 28th, 2009 - 8:54am

    If you think the federal government has taken the steps needed to limit future disease outbreaks among livestock, think again. The national program to trace livestock is going nowhere fast, and the ability to track Canadian cattle, which led to the first case of mad cow disease in a Mabton farm, is deeply flawed.

    Date Published: 
    28.may.09
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