Fritters recalled; breading contains flour linked to outbreak By News Desk  Almost three tons of frozen, breaded chicken products from Simmons Prepared Foods Inc. are being recalled because flour used in the breading has been recalled because it is linked to an ongoing E. coli outbreak. The Arkansas company distributed the chicken products to locations in Arkansas for "institutional use" by undisclosed customers. The 30-pound boxes... Continue Reading
Foreign officials, states and businesses want Almanza's time By Dan Flynn  The federal government's top food safety officials made up in the second quarter for any lapses in their first quarter in reporting of their meetings with people outside the U.S. government. The so-called public calendars disclose after-the-fact who has gained valuable face time with top decision makers. At USDA's Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS),... Continue Reading
Amos Miller is reluctant, but allows FSIS inspection of farm By News Desk  Miller's Organic Farm, was inspected Monday without incident by USDA's Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS). After raw milk from the Lancaster County, PA, farm was linked in March to two illnesses and one death, owner Amos Miller refused repeated attempts by FSIS to inspect the premises. When FSIS agents returned Monday with an Upper... Continue Reading
Listeria outbreak set apple industry on a targeted course By Cookson Beecher  SEATTLE — Sometimes when something that "just can't happen" does happen, valuable lessons are learned. That was the case when some batches of commercially produced, packaged, whole caramel apples turned out to be the cause of a listeriosis outbreak in 2014-15 that infected 35 people from 12 states, putting 34 of them in the hospital. Listeria... Continue Reading
More Food Safety News | 
Editor’s note: This information was originally posted July 12, 2016, by Sandra Avant, public affairs specialist for USDA’s Agricultural Research Service as part of the Science Tuesday feature series on the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s blog. As the weather heats up this summer, many of us are firing up our grills and going on picnics. But one thing we... 
No comments:
Post a Comment