Vegetable soup recalled because of botulism potential By News Desk  Vegetable soup distributed to retailers and farmers markets in three states is under recall because laboratory tests showed it could be contaminated with Clostridium botulinum, which causes botulism poisoning. Mary's Home Canning of Lancaster, PA, produced the vegetable soup, which is sold in glass jars with plain black and white labels that do not include... Continue Reading
Food protection group agrees norovirus needs more attention By Jim Mann  Editor's note: The Conference for Food Protection is managed by an executive board that includes 23 voting members who represent: state food regulatory agencies from each of the FDA regions; local food regulatory agencies from each of the FDA regions; the FDA; USDA/FSIS; the CDC, the food industry; an academic institution; and consumers. BOISE, ID — On... Continue Reading
More local food, more food safety risk, more federal grants By News Desk  With industry reporting that sales of "local foods" more than doubled from 2008 to 2014, concerns about public safety also increased, spurring the U.S. Department of Agriculture to offer almost $5 million in new food safety grants. The money is to help smaller operations comply with new food safety guidelines established by the Food and... Continue Reading
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The British poultry industry has found one way to put a stop to all that testing for campylobacter at the retail level in the United Kingdom. They've yanked the necks off the birds before they make it to retail counters. That's a problem for the Food Standards Agency (FSA) in the United Kingdom, which has been doing... 
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