HEALTH and FOOD
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Food safety auditors are crucial to our food system – and we need more of them
– Opinion – By Erica Sheward Director, Global Food Safety Initiative at The Consumer Goods Forum At the heart of equitable and sustainable...
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USDA investigates new outbreak of E. coli infections; focus on ground beef
Federal officials have opened an investigation into an outbreak of E. Coli O157:H7 infections suspected to be linked to ground beef. Other than...
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Publisher’s Platform: Enoki mushroom recall a reminder of 2020 deadly Listeria outbreak
– Opinion – The Michigan Department of Agriculture and Rural Development (MDARD) late Saturday told consumers not to eat the following brand of...
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Publisher’s Platform: Is FDA creating a HACCP program for produce?
Opinion HACCP: A systematic approach to the identification, evaluation, and control of food safety hazards.” – So says the FDA....
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Faces of Food Safety: Meet David Vasquez of the FSIS
CONTRIBUTED David Vasquez, supervisory consumer safety inspector (SCSI) at Establishment (Est.) M675 in Hereford, Texas, has been with FSIS for...
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The shifting sands of food recalls
Editor’s note: This was originally posted on FreshPlaza.com and is republished here with permission from the author, Astrid Van Den Broek...
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More than 100 sick in Australia as oysters recalled
Seven Australian states have recorded more than 100 Vibrio illnesses linked to raw oysters from South Australia. There are 56 people sick in...
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FDA investigating one new outbreak, continues to look for causes of others
The FDA is investigating a new Salmonella outbreak and continues to work on ongoing outbreaks, according to a new report from the agency. Very...
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Thanksgiving myths
This article originally appeared in the Tufts Health & Nutrition Letter, a monthly publication of the Friedman School of Nutrition Science...
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Publisher’s Platform: Mr. Bill goes to Washington again, and again and again
Opinion In 2011 I wrote: Last week the USDA Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) announced a recall of ground turkey...