Yesterday, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) issued five guidance documents to help importers and food producers meet key food safety provisions mandated by the FDA Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA).
Late last week, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) announced the proposal of a new rule that would overhaul current legislation for meat inspection at pork processing plants.
The National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD) has confirmed nearly 750 cases of Listeria in South Africa, including 67 deaths. This makes the Listeria outbreak the worst ever on record.
Today, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) Office of Enforcement and Import Operations director, Douglas Stearn, issued a notice stating plans to expedite public notification of products being recalled, including food products.
A new study by Utrecht University in the Netherlands and published in Veterinary Record—a British scholarly journal—says that raw pet foods (available in fresh, frozen and dried varieties) can be contaminated with a plethora of pathogens--Shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli (STEC) O157:H7, Listeria monocytogenes and Salmonella.
Yesterday, the Public Health Agency of Canada declared that the recent Shiga toxin-producing E. coli O157:H7 outbreak linked to romaine lettuce appears to be over.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration are still in the midst of investigating a multistate outbreak of Shiga toxin-producing E. coli O157:H7 infections (STEC O157:H7). In November and December, at least 17 consumers in 13 states were affected.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA’s) Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) has announced new plans to make egg products even safer for American consumers.
In this week's episode of Food Safety Magazine's Food Safety Matters podcast, Lee-Ann Jaykus discusses her work with NoroCORE, and how the foodservice industry can work to prevent and reduce norovirus outbreaks.
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