This week, Walmart and Sam’s Club formally requested their fresh, leafy greens suppliers to begin tracing their produce all the way back to its farm origin with the help of blockchain technology.
On September 19, the U.S. Department of Agriculture Food Safety and Inspection Service (USDA FSIS) issued a notice that Fort Morgan, CO-based Cargill Meat Solutions is recalling over 132,000 pounds (66 tons) of ground beef products made from the chuck portion of the carcass that may be contaminated with Shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli O26 bacteria.
To help combat these ongoing illnesses, the Government of Canada is partnering with the food manufacturing industry and food retailers to reduce Salmonella in frozen raw breaded chicken products produced on or after April 1, 2019, to below detectable amounts, thereby reducing the risk of illness for everyone who handles or consumes these types of products.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) is issuing food safety recommendations for those who may be impacted by Hurricane Florence.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, along with various local and state partners, are investigating a multistate outbreak of Salmonella Enteritidis linked to shell eggs.
Perry Johnson Registrars Food Safety, Inc. of Troy, MI has become the first certification body to be accredited under FDA’s Accredited Third-Party Certification Program for the following program scopes: Produce Safety; Preventive Controls for Human Food; Juice HACCP, and Seafood HACCP.
Recently, FDA added a new test to an ongoing sampling project: Cyclospora cayetanensis. The agency has a new analytical testing method for this parasite.
South Africa’s health minister declared an end to the listeriosis outbreak caused by ready-to-eat (RTE) deli meat. As of the last Situation Report, released in July 2018, there were 1,060 laboratory-confirmed cases and 216 deaths.
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