STOP Foodborne Illness honored by California produce group By News Desk  The California Leafy Greens Marketing Agreement (LGMA) of Sacramento, CA, recently gave its highest honor to the Chicago-based nonprofit food safety organization STOP Foodborne Illness. In presenting its Golden Checkmark award in late June, LGMA stated that it was recognizing the group’s “advocacy for victims of foodborne illness and its support of mandatory government oversight of... Continue Reading
Odds could favor DeCosters' desire for review of egg sentence By Dan Flynn  As legal experts were predicting, the appellant attorney for Austin “Jack” DeCoster and Peter DeCoster got a deadline extension in his quest to obtain another review of the pair’s sentences in a case about the 2010 Salmonella outbreak linked to their eggs. Attorney Peter Keisler of the Washington D.C. firm of Sidley & Austin is representing... Continue Reading
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A Wisconsin company is recalling Golden Dipt brand jalapeño breader mix from foodservice distributors who may or may not have sent the product to retailers open to the general public. The recall is a secondary action related to the General Mills recall of 30 million pounds of flour that has been linked via laboratory testing... 
An E. coli outbreak in Chicago remains under investigation as more customers of Carbón Live Fire Mexican Grill have been added to the victim count. Although public health officials would not comment on how many of the patients have required hospitalization, they did reveal the outbreak count more than doubled in size in eight days.... 
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is amending its final rule on the registration of food facilities to require additional information from registrants. The goals are to reduce potential fraud and make it easier to find domestic or foreign food operations when inspection time rolls around, the agency stated. During a Wednesday morning conference call, Erwin Miller, chief... 
The confirmed case count in the Hepatitis A outbreak on Oahu now stands at 52, according to the Hawaii State Department of Health, up from 31 confirmed cases a week ago. All of those sickened are adults on Oahu and 16 have been hospitalized. One of the sickened individuals has been identified as an employee of the Baskin-Robbins... 
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