Lessons Learned: Food Safety Summit Revisits 2014 Outbreak By James Andrews  The state of Maryland has only experienced four foodborne illness outbreaks in the past 10 years that sickened 100 people or more. Unfortunately for food safety experts, one of those outbreaks occurred at last year’s Food Safety Summit, an annual conference dedicated to food safety solutions. Last year’s conference in Baltimore ended with 216 of... Continue Reading
Orange County to Reconsider Adopting Restaurant Letter Grades By News Desk  Health officials in Orange County, CA, are reportedly getting ready to again propose rating restaurants with letter grades based on their latest inspection results. There have been two previous attempts to convince the county’s board of supervisors to adopt the system using A, B and C letter grades. This time, however, the proposal was requested... Continue Reading
FDA Seeks Comments on Risk Assessment of Drug Residues in Milk By News Desk  The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) wants to know what the public thinks of its risk assessment of drug residues in milk. The risk assessment, entitled, "Multicriteria-Based Ranking Model for Risk Management of Animal Drug Residues in Milk and Milk Products," is a tool to assist with reevaluating which animal drug residues should be included... Continue Reading
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Hy-Vee Inc. of West Des Moines, IA, has recalled its Hy-Vee Summer Fresh Pasta Salad sold in its stores’ kitchen department cold cases and salad bars. The product was recalled after Hy-Vee was notified that the frozen vegetables used to make the ready-to-eat pasta were potentially contaminated with Listeria monocytogenes. The frozen vegetables were produced by... 
Last summer's preliminary data from Salmonella and Campylobacter testing of raw meat and poultry for USDA's Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) are out, and there were mixed results. During the July-September quarter, FSIS collected and tested 3,985 samples for its Salmonella and Campylobacter verification program. The percent-positive rates for both Salmonella and Campylobacter in... 
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