Food Safety News - August 20, 2015 FSIS Posts List of Outlets in WA, AK Where Recalled Whole Hogs Were Sent

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FSIS Posts List of Outlets in WA, AK Where Recalled Whole Hogs Were Sent

By News Desk

USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) has posted a distribution list of 74 retail and distribution outlets in Washington state and Alaska which received whole hogs from Kapowsin Meats of Graham, WA. The product has been linked to a Salmonella outbreak that, as of Aug. 13, had sickened 134 people in WA and hospitalized... Continue Reading

Food Fraud a Bigger Problem Than Many Realize, Experts Say

By James Andrews

Pick up any item in the supermarket and read through the ingredient labeling. Nearly all of the ingredients listed have the potential to be vulnerable to food fraud, according to food fraud investigator Mitchell Weinberg. "Around the world, food fraud is an epidemic. In every single country where food is produced or grown, food fraud... Continue Reading

Ohio Botulism Outbreak a Somber Reminder About Canning Food Safely

By Martha Filipic

(This article by Martha Filipic, a writer/editor with the College of Food, Agricultural, and Environmental Sciences at The Ohio State University, was originally posted here on Aug. 17, 2015, and is reposted with permission.) COLUMBUS, OH—It was a church potluck like any other. But within days, botulism killed one Fairfield County woman and hospitalized 24... Continue Reading

Attorney for Former Rancho Owner Wins Hearing on Protective Order

By Dan Flynn

The Valentine's Day recall last year of 8,742,700 pounds of beef — all production of the Rancho Feeding Corporation from Jan. 1, 2013 through Jan. 7, 2014 — immediately sparked protests from customers who used the Petaluma, CA, slaughterhouse to process their cattle. After all, they had nothing to do with the scheme to slip animals with... Continue Reading

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