Hawaii's macadamia nut industry faces Salmonella challenge By Cathy Siegner  Captain Cook, HI — The Big Island features five volcanoes, black sand beaches and eight different climate zones. And, it produces world-famous Kona coffee and macadamia nuts. “Mac” nuts, as they’re called here, are actually native to Australia. They were introduced to Hawaii in the late 1880s and gradually became an important export crop by... Continue Reading
Research shows feedlot link to E. coli O157:H7 on leafy greens By Coral Beach  Current guidelines for the minimum distance between cattle feed lots and fresh produce growing fields are likely inadequate to ensure leafy greens are not contaminated with E. coli from dust and manure. "Additional research is needed to determine safe set-back distances between cattle feedlots and crop production that will reduce fresh produce contamination," according to... Continue Reading
Book preview: 'Food Safety in the Seafood Industry' By Dan Flynn  Last year, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration wrote stern warning letters to about 60 U.S. seafood processors and fish importers. In carefully drafted American legalize, such warnings to those in the fish and fish products industry are almost always over failures to comply with seafood Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Point (HACCP) regulations. For... Continue Reading
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