Food Safety News - March 17, 2015 CFIA Suspends Costco Canada’s License to Import Fish Into Canada

CFIA Suspends Costco Canada's License to Import Fish Into Canada By News Desk The Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) has suspended Costco Canada’s license to import fish into that country. According to a March 13 announcement, the license suspension was effective Feb. 26, 2015, and was issued because the agency “determined that adequate controls for food safety were not being reliably implemented by the company on a consistent basis... Continue Reading Salmonella Risk Prompts Frontier Co-op to Recall Organic Garlic Powder and Products Made With It By News Desk Frontier Co-op of Norway, IA, announced Monday that it is voluntarily recalling dozens of products manufactured with organic garlic powder sold under its Frontier and Simply Organic brands, and one product sold under the Whole Foods Market brand, due to potential Salmonella contamination. The list of recalled products containing the organic garlic powder, along with label... Continue Reading Don't Rely on the Luck of the Irish to Guarantee Food Safety By U.S. Department of Agriculture Those of us on the USDA's Meat and Poultry Hotline can always tell when St. Patrick's Day approaches. Starting in early March, we begin to receive lots of questions about corned beef: How do you prepare it? How can you tell when it's safely cooked? How long can you store it? While a traditional dinner... Continue Reading The Future is Now for the Food Safety Modernization Act By Michael Taylor We all knew FSMA was a big deal when Congress passed it a little over four years ago. After a decade of illness outbreaks, import safety problems, and market disruptions that shook consumer confidence and imposed billions of dollars in costs on the food system, Congress mandated a paradigm shift to prevention — to establishing a... Continue Reading Maine Legislature May Go Along With Governor on Raw Milk By Dan Flynn A state Senate committee working session on Thursday should signal whether the Maine Legislature will go along with Republican Gov. Paul R. LePage's desire to limit raw milk producers who are exempted from state licensing and inspection requirements to "on farm only" sales. LePage carved out his raw milk stance last session when he vetoed Legislative... Continue Reading Slight Radioactivity Found in Japanese Tea Shipped to Hong Kong By News Desk Food safety authorities in Hong Kong found trace amounts of radioactive cesium 137 in powdered tea imported from Japan last week, according to The New York Times. The sample tested at nearly one percent of the legal limit for radiation and was not considered a public health threat. Regardless, the importer voluntarily recalled the product.... Continue Reading More Food Safety News Past Food Safety News Articles Food Industry Events Food Safety News Copyright 2015 Marler Clark LLP, PS. All rights reserved. Marler Clark LLP, PS, 1301 2nd Avenue Suite 2800 Seattle WA 98101 USA Change your address or unsubscribe.

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