Food Safety News - February 18, 2016 Alberta outbreak prompts raw pork and pork organ recall

Alberta outbreak prompts raw pork and pork organ recall By News Desk Hillview Meat Processor in Ottawa has recalled raw pork and pork organ products from the marketplace for possible E. coli O157:H7 contamination, the Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) reports. The recall was triggered by findings of the CFIA, Alberta Health Services, and Alberta Agriculture and Forestry  investigation into a foodborne illness outbreak involving at least... Continue Reading How Rancho's insider scheme cost others millions of dollars By Dan Flynn While the owners of the Petaluma slaughter house were running a scheme to collect a few hundred dollars at a time from area ranchers by harvesting an occasional condemned cow and pocketing the money, the same facility was also being used by BN Ranch on its mission to create "the best-tasting, most wholesome humanely raised... Continue Reading Three USDA sessions for catfish Importers being held in March By News Desk The final U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) catfish inspection rule, which was published in the Federal Register last Dec. 2, becomes fully effective in just a few days on March 1. And USDA's Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) will conducting a series of education meetings on the new final rule during March. The marquee... Continue Reading Chicken Salad Recalled over Extraneous Plastic Materials By News Desk Winter Gardens Quality Foods, Inc., a New Oxford, Pa. establishment, is recalling approximately 3,710 pounds of chicken salad products that may be contaminated with extraneous plastic materials, the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) announced today. The chicken salad items were produced on various dates between January 28 and February 11,... Continue Reading Raw Pistachio Recalled after Salmonella Positive By News Desk Lipari Foods, LLC, of Warren, Michigan, has issued a voluntary recall of various raw pistachio products packaged by sister company JLM due to potential Salmonella risk. Salmonella is an organism that can cause serious and sometimes fatal infections in young children, frail or elderly people, and others with weakened immune systems. Healthy persons infected with... Continue Reading More Food Safety News Past Food Safety News Articles Food Industry Events Food Safety News Copyright 2016 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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