FoodSafetyNews

• Best intentions aren’t enough; volunteers must practice food safety

  15 hours ago FOOD FoodSafetyNews 8

  Contributed At this time of year, many community groups, volunteer organizations, work places and other groups celebrate Thanksgiving with a...

• Botulism strikes 4 infants; FDA warns parents against using honey on pacifiers

  1 day ago FOOD FoodSafetyNews 7

  Health officials say four infants in Texas have developed botulism poisoning after consuming honey. The children, all less than a year old, had...

• Almost 46 tons of raw ground turkey recalled for link to Salmonella Reading outbreak

  2 days ago FOOD FoodSafetyNews 8

  Barron, WS-based Jennie-O Turkey Store Sales, LLC  late Thursday recalled approximately 91,388 pounds of raw ground turkey products that may be...

• CDC renews JBS beef warning; 100 more sick as outbreak expands to 25 states

  2 days ago FOOD FoodSafetyNews 7

  The only good thing that can be said about the multi-state Salmonella Newport outbreak is that so far, no one has died. The federal Centers for...

• USDA won’t name turkey plants, despite 164 illnesses and 1 death

  3 days ago FOOD FoodSafetyNews 14

  The public doesn’t need to know which turkey plants have been found to be contaminated with a deadly strain of Salmonella that has infected people...

• Supreme Court won’t review Michael Parnell’s case related to deadly outbreak

  3 days ago FOOD FoodSafetyNews 9

  The U.S. Supreme Court denied peanut broker Michael Parnell’s petition for writ of certiorari Tuesday. That means the high court won’t...

• Massachusetts raw milk dairy suspends production for antibiotic traces

  4 days ago FOOD FoodSafetyNews 11

  Nick Hoffman and family practice Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) at Hoffman Farm in Franklin, MA, offer fresh vegetables, eggs and raw milk...

• Reality of our world: Money trumps altruism in the quest for safer poultry

  5 days ago FOOD FoodSafetyNews 12

  Opinion Editor’s note: This is the second of a two-part opinion piece. To read part one, please click here . In the previous...

• Consumer fault is a red herring; Salmonella should be an adulterant in poultry

  6 days ago FOOD FoodSafetyNews 13

  Opinion Editor’s note: This is the first of a two-part opinion piece. In recent days the CDC and FSIS updated information on a...

• Letter From The Editor: No statehouse tsunami

  1 week ago FOOD FoodSafetyNews 8

  Opinion If you lived at the seashore, a wave hitting your house would be a pretty significant event. But if you lived further away from the...